(RNS) — Azza Karam is the first woman and first Muslim to head the international interfaith peace organization. Within months of her taking over, the world was in the grips of the coronavirus and a ...

In Ohio, lawmakers passed a new bill that authorizes public school and state university teachers to instruct on the “positive ...

Introduction -- Part I: African connections : historical roots of Afro-Caribbean religions. Yoruba, Fon-Ewe, Ashanti, and Kongo cultural history -- African cultus and functionaries -- Part II: Vodou : ...

Religious sites -- Arch Street Meeting House -- Reinterpretation of the Arch Street Meeting House / Lynne Calamia -- The California Missions Trail -- California missions / Elizabeth Kryder-Reid -- ...

Ohio lawmakers have passed a bill allowing teachers to discuss religion's positive impact on American history. Supporters say it clarifies existing ri ...

(RNS) — Princeton University scholar Judith Weisenfeld has long studied the role of religion and race in America — but it wasn’t until recently that she discovered their historical and troubling ...

In any nation there exists a civil religion, a set of beliefs and practices that are basic to that culture. In the U.S.’s civil religion, for instance, Manifest Destiny has long been a basic belief, ...