Religion

(RNS) — Leanna Greenaway used to keep her practices with crystals and herbs to herself. “Back when I was in my 20s, I practiced in a solitary fashion because it was still very much a taboo subject,” she explained. Now Greenaway, the…

(RNS) — A number of faith-based organizations and congregations are pleading with the Biden administration, in a letter sent Monday (Jan. 23) to President Joe Biden and other leaders, not to enact new immigration restrictions. The letter…

DENVER (AP) — A man who says he was repeatedly sexually abused as a teen by his Catholic priest more than two decades ago filed a lawsuit against the now-defrocked priest and the Archdiocese of Denver on Thursday, taking advantage of a…

(RNS) — The farm labor history of California has often been told through the plight of agricultural laborers during the Depression era and the efforts, beginning in the early 1960s, of the United Farm Workers to improve working…

(RNS) — It’s the dream of many procrastinating American high school or college students — an essay fairy. A student types a prompt into a website about Shakespeare’s “King Lear” — and in about 20 seconds, out pops an entire composition,…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Thousands assembled on Friday (Jan. 20) to participate in this year’s edition of the anti-abortion March for Life on the National Mall, where throngs celebrated the fall of Roe v. Wade while expressing trepidation as…

(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes MLK Day commemorations, Orthodox Epiphany and more. The post Photos of the Week: MLK Day; Orthodox Epiphany appeared first on Religion News Service. Source link

(RNS) — As they have for almost all of the previous 49 years, pro-life advocates descended on the National Mall in Washington to commemorate the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on Friday (Jan. 20). What made…

(RNS) — Two years since then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called China’s repression of the Uyghurs a genocide, rights groups and political leaders continue to demand an end to China’s human rights abuses.   “Time is running out,”…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Frank Pavone, an anti-abortion activist who was until recently a Catholic priest, addressed a small crowd outside a Planned Parenthood clinic on the eve of this year’s March for Life, the annual demonstration against…