Leo greeted thousands of well-wishers who braved the cold to watch the American pope on his inaugural outing to the statue.

If Congress is incapable of reforming the health care system, we should take away their generous health insurance and let ...

New laws mandating the Ten Commandments’ display in schools have faced lawsuits in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.

American Muslim communities are working to reduce stigma around therapy by bringing mental health services into mosques and ...

Decline of religion remains stalled, says new Pew report. But there's no revival yet. (RNS) — For the past five years, the ...

Protestant churches’ growth in Latin America gets lots of attention, but another important shift is happening, too: people ...

Her concerts draw inspiration from a pre-Hispanic steam bath known as a “temazcal,” which played a significant role in ...

Indigenous themes have been explored before in short and feature-length films produced in Peru and Ecuador but most of those ...

Samantha Fulnecky could have posed a serious, Bible-based challenge to a question about gender in her psych class paper. But ...

While the ceasefire halted the heavy fighting of the two-year war, Gaza health officials say that over 360 Palestinians have ...

(RNS) — A journalist reaches out to a trusted source — and instead finds himself writing her obituary.

A new working group would be formed, with papally approved members, to come up with fundraising proposals and an appropriate ...