[ad_1] (RNS) — Leaders of Catholic organizations helping migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border are denouncing President Joe Biden’s new asylum restrictions as shelter directors brace for its impact on conditions. “It’s going to cause a lot of pain and confusion,” said Dylan Corbett, executive director at the Hope Border Institute, which supports migrants in El […]

[ad_1] NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — After the United Methodist Church voted this spring to allow its clergy to marry same-sex couples and lifted its ban on ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy, Methodists around the world watched how the denomination’s African members would respond. On May 28, United Methodists in the Ivory Coast seemed to provide the […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Israel’s minister of religious affairs, Michael Malchieli, announced last week that he would commit to appointing 10 women to seats in the 150-member assembly responsible for electing Israel’s two chief rabbis, ahead of the next election this summer.  The rabbinate, headed by a duo of chief rabbis, has sweeping power over the […]

[ad_1] Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists, Scientologists, and members of other faiths and beliefs gathered at St. Basil Catholic Church in Los Angeles for the 9th Annual Interfaith Solidarity March and forum on Sunday, June 2. The event, organized to foster unity, peace and understanding among different faith communities, addressed pressing issues. Key among them were the Israel-Hamas […]

[ad_1] Have the stories of freedom in America masked a long history of violence? As bodies were burning from a massacre at the Mystic River in Massachusetts in 1637, pious settlers gave thanks to God for the victory — and even identified that the bodies burning were a “sweet-smelling savor in the nostrils of God.” […]

[ad_1] Can an app deepen your relationship with God? This week, Tom and Amber talk with Alessandro DiSanto, a co-founder of Hallow, the No. 1 prayer app in the world. Alessandro shares how prayer and Catholic values guide Hallow’s business model and decision-making — and, as a young, successful entrepreneur, how his faith informs his […]

[ad_1] (The Conversation) — India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, had hoped for a landslide victory in the country’s six-week general election – the largest display of democracy, by far, in a year of voting around the world. But the party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, scored 240 parliamentary seats in the final […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday (June 4) dramatically limiting the number of immigrants who may apply for asylum at the southern United States border. The policy pauses entry at the border, starting Wednesday, once 2,500 illegal entries have occurred in any 24-hour period.  The executive order follows two failed efforts […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — The last time Southern Baptists gathered in Indianapolis for their annual meeting, six preachers were vying for the chance to lead the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. During that 2008 meeting, three megachurch pastors squared off against a pair of former missionaries and a small church preacher from North Carolina before Johnny Hunt, […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — A prominent association of American colleges and universities has created a new commission of religious schools whose aim will be to share with their nonreligious counterparts recent successes in the areas of access and affordability and the innovations that have led to growth in recent years. The Commission on Faith-based Colleges and […]