Despite the rise of science, technology, and secular thought, religion remains a powerful force shaping the beliefs, behaviors, and identities of billions. From ancient spiritual systems to newer ...

Each year, the Religion News Association surveys its members to come up with the top domestic and international stories about religion. From the U.S. presidential election to the war in Gaza, religion ...

(RNS) — In anticipating the potential stories of 2025, RNS reporters all offered some variation of how a second Trump administration will affect their respective beats. As a new administration ...

Every major world religion has a process for moral accounting. That’s something we rarely talk about in secular society. By Lauren Jackson I’m the host of Believing, a new newsletter about religion ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently took a big step forward in one of the world’s tiniest countries. Nauru, a remote island in the South Pacific of barely 8 square miles, recently ...

It’s mid-October in San Francisco, and a crowd of 200 or so congregants—some seated in pews, others standing below cathedral windows at the back—bow their heads in prayer. Over cranberry-apple cosmos ...

A Supreme Court reporter and an education reporter explain faith’s new role in schools. By The Morning Team By Adam Liptak I cover the Supreme Court. In just the last month, the Supreme Court has ...