Iran’s reprisals shutter Israel’s houses of worship during Ramadan and... JERUSALEM (RNS) — Early Saturday morning (Feb. 27), as Israeli and American fighter jets began striking targets in Iran, every Israeli cell...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, theocratic leader of Iran since 1989, is... DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its top leader and...
America’s moral power is the first casualty in Iran (RNS) — The most famous quote about war has it that the first casualty of war is the truth, but for Muslims...
The Epstein Files as a Mirror, With Rabbi Jay Michaelson As exhausted as many of us are by the ever more sordid revelations in the Epstein scandal, author and journalist Rabbi...
Who is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran and target... (The Conversation) — Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of a local religious leader, Javad...
Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgement’ gets clean up as tide of visitors... VATICAN CITY (RNS) – “The Last Judgement,” Michelangelo’s vast fresco painted into the plaster of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is undergoing an...
Catholic bishops: Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship affronts Catholic teaching (RNS) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has filed an amicus brief in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court opposing...
Purim is raucous and chaotic. But the lesson for us... (RNS) — Purim, the Jewish holiday that falls this year on Monday (March 2), is often regarded as a joyful, even raucous...
Joseph Smith portrait at Morehouse sparks debate over slavery, polygamy... (RNS) — Several Black clergymen who are alumni of Morehouse College, a historically Black men’s college, have written an open letter to...
Black church leaders use new books to share history and... (RNS) — If the blurb on the back of a history book dared admit it had begun life as an academic paper,...