By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service (RNS) Would you rather see a movie about a sinner or a saint? The marketing team for the new Roland Jof...

By Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service This story was reported by Daniel Burke, Adelle M. Banks, Nicole Neroulias, Omar Sacirbey and Alessandro Spec...

By James Ewinger Religion News Service PARMA, Ohio (RNS) Government officials told Arab-Americans and Muslims that some post-9/11 security measures a...

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court on Monday (May 2) declined to hear a Catholic group's appeal accusing San Fr...

There are times when I am tempted to despise some of my co-religionists, like Sunday night when spontaneous celebrations broke out across the country ...

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) British film director Roland Joffe calls himself a "wobbly agnostic." But in his Oscar-winning 1986 film ...

In an apparent reversal of past policies, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel plans to recognize all Orthodox Jewish conversions performed in the country, t...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Dallas megachurch pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes has produced his third movie, Jumping the Broom, a romantic...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) More than 20 percent of atheist scientists consider themselves to be "spiritual," according to a Ri...

By Alexi Friedman and Dan Goldberg Religion News Service PATERSON, N.J. (RNS) Hours after Osama bin Laden's death was announced, the American Arab Fo...

By Trevor Grundy Religion News Service CANTERBURY, ENGLAND (RNS/ENInews) In a challenge to conventional wisdom that church attendance is plummeting a...

The tornadoes and floods have been devastating for communities across the American South. Religious organizations from a wide range of traditions are...

By Peter Eisler USA Today VIENNA, Va. (RNS) When officials at Vienna Presbyterian Church decided to acknowledge the church's failures in handling rep...

By David Giambusso Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) The Dalai Lama says peace in the world begins with peace in oneself. Some of his fellow N...

By David Gibson Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) Nearly a decade after revelations of widespread sexual abuse of minors rocked the Catholic Churc...

Sex, betrayal and weird skin disease -- Bible stories aren't so different from the everyday. So says Alicia Jo Rabins, frontwoman of Girls in Trou...

By Nancy Haught Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Less than a week after the announcement that he had been nominated to become the next chap...

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI will speak via satellite with astronauts on the International Space St...

Whether it is the culmination of a process or an apocalyptic in-breaking, all religions have something to say about the end times. Religious scripture...

By Daniel Mach and Jamil Dakwar Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) A discriminatory and wholly unfounded idea is taking root in state legislatures ...

William (Will) Franklin Graham IV is the grandson of Billy Graham and the son of Franklin Graham. Graham is an associate evangelist at Billy Graham Ev...

By Kevin Douglas Grant Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) Tova Hartman opens the door to her apartment with a warm smile, speaking softly and c...

By Ron Csillag Religion News Service (RNS) Through the 1960s, Bob Dylan was hailed as a prophet, first of folk music, then of rock 'n' roll -- at ...

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) 1604. England. Rebellious Puritans, establishment Anglicans and Roman Catholics are (literally) at eac...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Nearly two-thirds of Americans say gay or lesbian relations between consenting adults should be legal,...