Religion News Service

American Catholic: Parishes need to be more welcoming to families, especially families in difficulties. Rather than greeting them with a list of rules to be followed, the document encourages "listening" as the first response. 

Within hours of the Oct. 1 mass shooting that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds, mourners and the merely curious started creating and visiting a spontaneous memorial.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping directive to agencies to do as much as possible to accommodate those who claim their religious freedoms are being violated.

Abdullah Antepli, one of only seven imams to give the opening prayer in the House of Representatives, delivered a plea for celebrating differences. 

The mass shooting in Las Vegas is the deadliest in modern U.S. history, but is it terrorism?

American Catholic: Catholics need to grow up and learn to live in a church where arguments take place, but we should not let disagreements break up the family.

As the nation reels from the latest mass shooting, religious and secular leaders are offering prayers and some are calling for stronger action on gun control.

On Monday (Oct. 2), President Donald Trump spoke to a nation still reeling from the worst mass shooting in modern American history. Over 50 people were killed and hundreds injured.

A group of evangelicals has written a letter to President Trump calling on him to do more to condemn white supremacists.

Firebrand jurist Roy Moore won the Alabama Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating an appointed incumbent backed by President Donald Trump.

American Catholic: What is clear from the experience of the NFL and the Catholic Church is that symbolic gestures mean different things to different people. 

The Saudi government continues to tolerate hate speech by some clerics and discriminatory language in public school textbooks, a new study by Human Rights Watch said.

Jackline Mukisa sobbed as she described how her 8-year-old son was found in a nearby swamp in February without teeth, lips, ears and genitals.

Stroll down Ifestou Street in the bustling Monastiraki market, and you’ll spy ropes of necklaces, bracelets and keychains bedecked with the mati, or “eye.” 

Texas officials have written to President Trump urging him to follow up on his tweeted endorsement of federal disaster relief for churches after Hurricane Harvey.

Abdul El-Sayed, a 32-year-old liberal doctor in Detroit, is mounting a surprisingly robust bid to become the nation's first Muslim governor.

American Catholic: Leaders in the Catholic Church, like leaders in any organization, hate scandals. They wish that they never happen, and when they do, they try to deal with them internally so as not to get a lot of bad publicity.

A Catholic priest from India who was freed after being held 18 months in Yemen said Saturday that he was never physically harmed.

An interfaith coalition has told the Supreme Court there is “no principled basis” for President Trump’s travel ban on Muslim-majority nations.

American Catholic: Attacking the bishops is almost always counterproductive, especially if you are Catholic. Rule No. 1 for politicians: Never debate theology with bishops.