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Religion News Service

Religion News Service (RNS) aims to be the largest single source of news about religion, spirituality and ideas. We strive to inform, illuminate and inspire public discourse on matters relating to belief and convictions.

At the end of a mixed political year: Love, hope and faith abide

January 2021 brought the inauguration of a new president, but the violent insurrection at the Capitol laid bare the profound differences in expectations of government.

Desmond Tutu, archbishop, activist and apartheid foe, is dead at 90

Tutu said a disciplined prayer life helped him through apartheid and continued to sustain him decades later.

Kyle Rittenhouse, whiteness, and a divinely ordained license to kill

The danger we're facing goes beyond a rogue killer.

Three Jewish players set a World Series record by walking onto the field

Two Astros and one Brave represent the largest contingent of Jews ever to take the field in a single World Series.

Orthodox Church’s top patriarch to visit US, meet with Biden

The spiritual leader of the world’s 200 million Eastern Orthodox Christians brings an agenda spanning religious, political and environmental issues to a 12-day U.S. visit beginning Saturday that includes a meeting with President Joe Biden and various ceremonial and interfaith gatherings.

Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day? Getting to the heart of the American identity crisis

This belief in America as a divinely ordained white Christian nation — which has blessed so much brutality in our history — remains linked to denials of our past and support for political violence and anti-democratic sentiment in the present.

‘The story is still unfolding’: 10 Americans on how 9/11 changed their faith lives

The Sept. 11 attacks changed many Americans’ faith communities and spiritual lives as much as it did how we see our world and one another.

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