(RNS) — Azza Karam is the first woman and first Muslim to head the international interfaith peace organization. Within months of her taking over, the world was in the grips of the coronavirus and a ...

Introduction -- Part I: African connections : historical roots of Afro-Caribbean religions. Yoruba, Fon-Ewe, Ashanti, and Kongo cultural history -- African cultus and functionaries -- Part II: Vodou : ...

(RNS) — Princeton University scholar Judith Weisenfeld has long studied the role of religion and race in America — but it wasn’t until recently that she discovered their historical and troubling ...

Religious sites -- Arch Street Meeting House -- Reinterpretation of the Arch Street Meeting House / Lynne Calamia -- The California Missions Trail -- California missions / Elizabeth Kryder-Reid -- ...

First Congregational Church on East Broad Street in downtown Columbus was home to Washington Gladden, who was a religious leader committed to social justice, and he called on city leaders to treat ...

IN one of the many Russian films which picture the advance of industrialism in that country and which spread the naïve faith that collectivization plus industrialization will create a new paradise, a ...

There is something a bit dizzying about much of the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition “Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West.” And that turns out to be a good thing.

Louisiana can proceed with a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, according to a federal court decision on Feb. 20, 2026. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted that it ...