By Cathy Lynn Grossman USA Today WASHINGTON (RNS) A new multimillion-dollar, high-tech, interactive museum of the Bible was announced Thursday amid 1...

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) In 2008, Safoorah Khan, a math teacher in Illinois, asked for 15 days of unpaid leave (19 days...

By Amy Ellis Nutt and Barry Carter Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) For 46 years, the chief assassin of slain civil rights icon Malcolm X ...

Clarence Clemons had dispersed a crowd on the Great Wall of China so a filmmaker could record him playing his saxophone when a member of the crowd dem...

By Chris Herlinger Religion News Service (RNS) A British theoretical astrophysicist who has achieved renown for his study of the cosmos and for sound...

By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service (RNS) As newlyweds, Cokie and Steve Roberts wanted to host a Passover seder that could be enjoyed by her de...

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) U.S. Catholic bishops announced Monday (April 11) that sexual abuse accusations against Cathol...

By Richard Yeakley Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The congressional budget compromise reached last week did not go far enough for some progre...

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) As Christians worldwide prepare to celebrate Easter, they will follow a familiar chronology: Jesus was...

By Richard Yeakley Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Bibles cannot be the only reading materials allowed in jail, the U.S. Department of Just...

Passover, the Jewish holiday known as Pesach in Hebrew, commemorates the Israelites' escape from Egyptian slavery and is observed with ritualized meal...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, a long-lost letter has surfaced ...

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican on Thursday (April 14) lamented China's interference with the Roman Catholic...

By A. James Rudin Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) The heady days of American congregational expansion are over. The nation's largest Jewish ...

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Belgium's Catholic bishops declared themselves "extremely shocked" on Friday (Apr. 15...

By Michele Chabin Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) When Passover begins on Monday (April 18) at sundown, Roxanne Fogelman, a 22-year-old Isra...

By Michael O'Malley Religion News Service ROCHESTER, N.Y. (RNS) At Spiritus Christi Church, the choir sings the lyrics of "Amazing Grace" to the t...

Nestled among the hot clubs and cool condos of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Streit’s kosher matzo factory is one of the last holdouts of a bygone ...

By Adelle M Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) A New York minister will soon fill the Obama administration's long-vacant position to overse...

By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service LUEBECK, Germany (RNS) Residents of this north German city have long taken pride in four native sons -- three ...

By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service (RNS) Are Christianity and capitalism a marriage made in heaven, as some conservatives believe, or more of ...

By Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) John Evans is in no hurry to get married. The 25-year-old returned LDS missionary ...

By Cathy Lynn Grossman USA Today (RNS) This weekend, Jeanne O'Hair, her friends and family will raise their voices in Easter hymns "as the spirit lea...

By Kathleen O'Brien Religion News Service (RNS) Give these billboards credit: They don't hedge their bet. Judgment Day is coming May 21, 201...