The Kenyan government has not allowed kids under 10 to return to churches or schools during the coronavirus pandemic. Christian leaders fear online Sunday School, which isn’t reaching many kids, won’t be enough to fill in the gap of religious education for this younger generation.
Read MoreReality Winner was arrested in 2017 for leaking a five-page NSA report about Russian involvement in the 2016 election. Today, Winner hopes for a judge to give her “compassionate release” before she completes her sentence. A vocal group of supporters are active on Twitter daily to promote her name and story, highlighting the times her religious personal items have been taken away in jail.
Read MoreIn a handwritten letter sent exclusively to Religion Unplugged, Cardinal Joseph Zen reflected on the Vatican’s continued cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, declaring the Church in China “schismatic,” and placing the blame on Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin.
Read MoreMcDaniel, 84, served as an elder of a 50-member congregation northeast of Dallas. He is known for a career with the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals — and for his devout Christian faith and service.
Read MoreVictor Glover is a NASA astronaut and one of four crew members for the SpaceX Crew Dragon’s first operational flight that launched this weekend. He’ll rely on his Bible and prayer to deal with isolation at the International Space Station.
Read MoreThe possibility of President Trump winning a second term is looking dimmer and dimmer as election results show President-Elect Joe Biden eking out a victory even in traditionally GOP states such as Arizona and Georgia. But these modern-day prophets aren’t taking no for an answer.
Read MoreThis year, millions celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights celebrating the triumph of good over evil, had to adapt their plans amid various restrictions on gathering during the coronavirus pandemic. In Malaysia, Hindus attended temple for prayers for the first time in more than a month, as the government had closed houses of worship to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Read MoreThis weekend, millions are celebrating the Hindu festival Diwali, or the festival of lights. The holiday celebrates the triumph of good over evil and remembers several different Hindu mythologies.
Read MoreFriday the 13th is a day marked by superstition, as it’s believed to be extremely unlucky. This belief dates back to early Christianity.
Read MoreIn an online broadcast to his followers, Rev. Sean Moon, son of the Unification movement’s founder, said America is threatened by totalitarianism and must fight back to ensure President Trump serves a second term, even if that means dying in “a gun fight with police.”
Read MoreIn Kenya, Evangelical churches backed Donald Trump in the elections, but other Christians went for Joe Biden, including Barack Obama’s grandmother, whose village held a mock election in which a “Biden” beat “Trump.”
Read MoreFrom Nov. 11-13, more than 600 people from 90 countries attended a virtual and in-person conference in Germany to discuss the role of women in the world’s religions and their leadership in their faith communities, development work and diplomacy. Azza Karam, the Secretary General for Religions for Peace, has spent her career showing international agencies like the United Nations why understanding religion is central to their missions.
Read MoreWorldwide, religious leaders are making headlines in secular society for the realms where their faiths clash with the political.
Read More(ANALYSIS) White evangelicals think that Democrats are incredibly liberal, but atheists see them as just slightly left of center. Comparing how religious groups perceive the political parties shows us how politicians are able to exploit the partisan divide to paint the other side as radical or extreme.
Read MoreCardinals, archbishops and other clerical leaders of the Catholic Church from around the world have penned a flurry of letters and official statements in the wake of the ground-breaking McCarrick report that concludes while many in the Vatican hierarchy had known for years about sexual abuse allegations against ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick and not removed him, Pope Francis was not complicit.
Read MoreA long-awaited Vatican probe into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick found that many in the Catholic hierarchy — starting with Pope John Paul II — continuously turned a blind eye to a series of red flags that he’d sexually abused children and seminarians.
Read MoreThe conservative pastor had become a national voice for evangelicals, a spiritual advisor to President Trump and a voice for racial reconciliation.
Read More(ANALYSIS) In the biggest escalation in tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan since their war’s end in 1994, Armenia’s Christian clergy are standing firm with both soldiers and civilians, as they always have, while Azerbaijan’s troops continue to push back Armenia’s line of defense.
Read More(ANALYSIS) Former Vice President Joe Biden’s Catholicism often helped shape his politics as did a family tragedy earlier in his life. Biden promises unity post-Trump, but how he governs could ultimately result in an even bigger political split in the U.S. over the next four years.
Read MoreShelling between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues. In the meantime, Christian charities provide care to victims of the violence in the region.
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