Women’s History Month
Women’s network builds bridges amid Nigeria’s violence, Muslim and Christian mistrust
By Festus Iyorah — December 7, 2018
ABUJA, Kenya (RNS) — In Nigeria, an interfaith group of women is working to build peace between Muslims and Christians.
Dorothy Day — ‘a saint for our times’
By Sandra Yocum — December 5, 2018
(The Conversation) — Dorothy Day, who died 38 years ago this week, was able to discern beauty in the midst of her harsh and demanding life. In that, she has a lesson for the times we live in.
Southern Baptist seminary, in #MeToo age, appoints ‘women’s support coordinator’
By Adelle M. Banks — November 30, 2018
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (RNS) — The president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said the new position helps demonstrate the school has 'no tolerance on this campus for sexual harassment, assault, or disrespect.'
Muslim preachers help Kosovo women learn, win their rights
By LLazar Semini — November 23, 2018
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — There's a widespread tradition that it's better for women to pray at home than in the mosque, but in Kosovo, an old Ottoman-era tradition is bucking that trend.
In Kenya, Pentecostal Christian moms tell husbands that girls are as good as boys
By Tonny Onyulo — November 16, 2018
BUNGOMA, Kenya (RNS) — Traditional culture here demands that women bear sons, but religious leaders say it's time for people to see that in God's eyes, both genders have equal worth.
Christian author Lysa TerKeurst faces her greatest fears
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 8, 2018
(RNS) — When, in the past two years, bestselling Christian author Lysa TerKeurst revealed her husband's affair and her diagnosis with breast cancer, she did what she's always done. She wrote about it in a new book, 'It's Not Supposed to Be this Way."
As Christians split over Trump, minority faiths make their mark
By Jack Jenkins — November 7, 2018
(RNS) — Muslim women were elected to Congress for the first time. And for the first time in memory an incumbent senator mentioned the upcoming Hindu holiday of Diwali in an acceptance speech.
Vatican synod calls for women leaders ‘at all levels,’ avoids using LGBT or gay
By Paul O'Donnell — October 27, 2018
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The language on the clergy abuse crisis was watered down, but the monthlong synod was a victory for Pope Francis in his efforts to reform the Catholic Church.
Clergywomen numbers increased significantly in two decades, sometimes equaling men
By Adelle M. Banks — October 18, 2018
(RNS) — The two traditions with the highest percentages of women clergy, according to the ‘State of Clergywomen in the U.S.,’ were the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.
Author Kathy Khang on why Christians need to speak up — on politics and everything else
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 12, 2018
(RNS) — The 'Raise Your Voice' author talked to RNS about speaking up at protests, on social media and around the dinner table.
Turning her Baha’i faith into precedent, lawyer helps women gain asylum
By Cathleen Falsani — October 2, 2018
(RNS) — Layli Miller-Muro was spurred by her third-generation Baha'i faith to become an advocate for immigrant women fleeing gender-based violence.
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox women win partial victory in fight to run for office
By Yonat Shimron — August 24, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The demands for representation from a growing number of religious women come amid a seismic shift in Israeli ultra-Orthodox society in which more religious women are entering the professions.
Women as priests? Some say it’s time but admit it’s unlikely
By David Crary — August 24, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Even with extensive grassroots support for letting women become priests, Pope Francis and the Vatican's male-dominated hierarchy have stressed repeatedly that a men-only priesthood is a divine mandate that cannot be changed.
Muslim women poised to change the next Congress
By Yonat Shimron — August 16, 2018
(RNS) — With their two primary wins, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan have made history not only for their faith but also their gender.
A down payment on making hajj easier for Muslim women
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil — August 11, 2018
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — A new group founded a year ago is helping Muslim women make the pilgrimage to Mecca by providing money, advice and even rewriting the narrative about women and hajj.
