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(Alessandra Tarantino | AP) Pope Francis, shown in April, is calling on world to change its ways, cure its addiction to fossil fuels and “repent" of its "ecological sins."

Pope Francis decries ‘consumerist greed,’ urges all to ‘repent of our ecological sins’

By Claire Giangravé | Religion News Service | May 26, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Evgeniy Maloletka | AP) A Ukrainian serviceman takes a photograph of a damaged church after shelling in a residential district in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. A U.S. State Department reports on religious freedom laments Russia's destruction of churches in Ukraine.

U.S. points to religious liberty atrocities in Russia, China and Afghanistan

By Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service | May 17, 2023, 4:38 p.m.

(Aaron Chown | Pool Photo via AP) Britain's King Charles III, left, stands next to Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby during his coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London on Saturday, May 6, 2023.

Commentary: How King Charles III became a royal mensch

By Jeffrey Salkin | Religion News Service | May 10, 2023, 9:20 p.m.

"The Holy Women at the Sepulcher," circa 1611-1614, by Peter Paul Rubens.

They healed. They followed. They led. New books spotlight women’s roles in New Testament.

By Emily McFarlan Miller | Religion News Service | May 11, 2023, 7:14 p.m.

(Rachel Rydalch | The Salt Lake Tribune) A woman prays at Catholic Mass on Ash Wednesday at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in West Jordan in 2022. A new survey shows 61% of Americans pray.

More Americans pray in their car than in a place of worship

By Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service | May 4, 2023, 10:52 p.m.

(Alessandra Tarantino | AP Photo) Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

Pope Francis allows women to vote at upcoming bishops’ meeting

By Nicole Winfield | The Associated Press | April 27, 2023, 2:57 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Two girls look at the many options available for purchase in a Giving Machine in Calgary, Canada. Canada was one of 28 locations around the world in 2022 where donations were made during the Christmas season. A new study suggests religion can prompt people to be more generous to outsiders.

Thinking about God can make people more generous to outsiders

By Bob Smietana | Religion News Service | April 25, 2023, 8:32 p.m.

(Universal Studios Home Entertainment | AP) This picture provided by Universal Studios Home Entertainment shows actors Gregory Peck, foreground left, and Brock Peters, foreground right, in a scene from the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Commentary: Is ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ a Jewish story?

By Jeffrey Salkin | Religion News Service | April 19, 2023, 6:44 p.m.

(Carolyn Kaster | AP) Gerald Groff, a former postal worker whose case was argued before the Supreme Court, stands during a television interview near a "Now Hiring" sign posted at the roadside at the U.S. Postal Service, Wednesday, March 8, 2023, in Quarryville, Pa.

Supreme Court case tests religious tolerance on Sunday work

By Jessica Gresko | The Associated Press | April 19, 2023, 6:51 p.m.

(Rachel Rydalch | The Salt Lake Tribune) Father José A. Barrera places ashes on a young boy's face for Ash Wednesday at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in West Jordan in 2022.

U.S.-born Latinos now more likely to be ‘nones’ than Catholic

By Alejandra Molina | Religion News Service | April 14, 2023, 4:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Father Martin Diaz, pastor of Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, celebrates Mass in 2020. New statistics show where Americans are becoming more and less religious.

Commentary: We know Americans have become less religious. Surprising new data shows us where.

By Ryan Burge | Religion News Service | April 14, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Vitnija Saldava | AP) Vicar Fulvio Cesare leads a baptism ceremony at a Catholic Cathedral in downtown Stockholm in 2016.

Commentary: The Catholic Church can never admit that something it taught for centuries was dumb

By Thomas Reese | Religion News Service | April 11, 2023, 8:52 p.m.

(Natacha Pisarenko | AP) This 2019 photo shows a statue of a crucified Jesus Christ inside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Mendoza, Argentina.

Commentary: Christ continues to be crucified in today’s world

By Thomas Reese | Religion News Service | April 4, 2023, 6:37 p.m.

(Alessandra Tarantino | AP Photo) Pope Francis hugs a child at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 29, 2023.

Vatican: Pope Francis to be hospitalized for days for lung infection

By Nicole Winfield | The Associated Press | March 29, 2023, 8:56 p.m.

(Jessie Wardarski | AP file photo) The Rev. Manuel Rodriguez sits in the pews of his church, Our Lady of Sorrows, on March 5, 2021, in the Queens borough of New York. A new survey by the Pew Research Center, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, says in-person attendance at religious services in the U.S. declined during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Rodriguez says attendance is now higher at his Catholic church than before the pandemic, even though more than 100 of his parishioners died of COVID.

Poll: Religious service attendance a bit down after pandemic

By Luis Andres Henao | The Associated Press | March 29, 2023, 2:14 p.m.

Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Religion News Service columnist Thomas Reese speaks in Salt Lake City in 2015.

Commentary: Help! I have been replaced by AI.

By Thomas Reese | Religion News Service | March 27, 2023, 10:25 p.m.

(Metro Nashville Police Department | AP) This photo provided by the Metro Nashville Police Department shows officers at an active shooter event that took place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tenn. Monday, March 27, 2023. Authorities say the suspect in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville is dead.

Update: Police ID kids, all age 9, and adults in Nashville shooting

By Jonathan Mattise and Travis Loller | The Associated Press | March 27, 2023, 11:23 p.m.

(Patrick Semansky | AP) President Joe Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. A new PRRI poll shows how various religious groups view LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage.

How Buddhists, Catholics, Latter-days Saints, other faiths view LGBTQ rights

By Bob Smietana | Religion News Service | March 23, 2023, 10:00 p.m.

(Patrick Semansky | AP) Protester holds a cross outside the Supreme Court in 2020. Growing Christian nationalism is getting pushback in north Idaho.

In north Idaho, religious and secular activists work to fight Christian nationalism

By Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service | March 15, 2023, 9:10 p.m.

(Photo courtesy of the Vatican) Pope Francis welcomes President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Vatican on Saturday, March 9, 2019.

Commentary: A decade of Pope Francis — he’s no miracle worker, but he has changed the church

By Thomas Reese | Religion News Service | March 8, 2023, 4:00 p.m.