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Arab Christians urge evangelicals to rethink support for Israel’s war

Arab Christians can no longer be silent about their co-religionists’ solidarity with what is at best an act of revenge and at worst a genocide.

Daoud Kuttab | For Religion News Service

August 16, 2024

African faith leaders call for debt forgiveness in 2025 Jubilee year

African faith leaders are calling for debt forgiveness as the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee year approaches to help their countries tackle growing economic crises. “We urgently

Fredrick Nzwili | Religion News Service

August 5, 2024

Kenyan youth protesters hold Christian leaders to account as they force economic changes

Five weeks after young Kenyans poured into the streets under the banner of “Gen Z,” forcing changes in the government, they have also called Christian

Fredrick Nzwili | Religion News Service

July 30, 2024

Poll chaplain training begins as clergy, secular groups look toward election

Faith leaders are making plans to provide a de-escalating presence at the polls months ahead of another deeply contested presidential election in an increasingly polarized

Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service

July 24, 2024

Presbyterian Church (USA) votes to divest from Israel bonds

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted July 1 to divest from Israel bonds and begin the process of encouraging two companies it

Yonat Shimron | Religion News Service

July 11, 2024

Its move from Bethlehem to Jordan complete, Love Into Action resumes mission to aid disabled

Laurence and Sharon Garnett live in the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq, home to a large Bedouin community, as well as, of late, a host

Daoud Kuttab | Religion News Service

July 1, 2024

Episcopal Church grapples with ‘transformative role’ in Native American residential schools

For most Native American children in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, education was neither a right nor a privilege. Indigenous children from Florida

G. Jeffrey McDonald | Religion News Service

June 26, 2024

Historic all-sign-language movie “Jesus: A Deaf Missions Film” comes to theaters

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama Jesus of Nazareth — but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions

Kathryn Post | Religion News Service

June 18, 2024

‘Tense calm’ at the border as migrant shelters brace for impact of Biden’s asylum order

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

Aleja Hertzler-McCain | Religion News Service

June 12, 2024

With strawberries and goats, a ‘farmastery’ reaches out to its neighbors

On a warm, sunny morning in farm country, a group of 40 preschoolers and their parents fanned out across several rows of crops to pluck

Yonat Shimron | Religion News Service

June 10, 2024

Union Theological Seminary votes to divest from companies profiting from Gaza war

Union Theological Seminary’s board of trustees voted May 9 to divest from all companies profiting off the war in Gaza. Union, a private, ecumenical school,

Fiona Murphy | Religion News Service

May 28, 2024

75 Christian leaders urge president, Congress, churches to act on racism, poverty

Seventy-five leaders of national Christian organizations and prominent churches have sent a statement to the White House, Congress and congregational leaders calling for greater action

Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service

May 7, 2024

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