As of this week, three US states have codified Diwali as a state holiday, offering a framework for excused absences or paid ...

As biblical references to immigrants become political slogans, Ruth's story shows how keeping the humanity of immigrants in ...

Displaced Palestinians with their belongings pass destroyed buildings as they return to their homes in the Zeitoun ...

“Cameroon is a powder keg,” summarizes Nkem Khumbah, Cameroon-born director of science, technology and innovation at the ...

Three recent New York Times articles on organ donation point to the insufficiency of our current definitions of death.

Badinter, who died last year at age 95, spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty and campaigned against ...

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining 48 hostages, around 20 of them believed to be alive, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

To honor Elie Wiesel is not merely to remember what he suffered. It is to take up what he required of others — to see, to ...

More than 1,400 evangelical Christians gathered this week in Jerusalem to show their support for Israel on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, a joyous festival marking the fall harvest and commemorating ...

Uncertainty remains about some of the thornier aspects of the plan advanced by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump — such as whether and how Hamas will disarm, and who will govern Gaza.

Religion News Service (RNS) and Interfaith America (IA) are pleased to announce that four journalists have been accepted to ...

Whatever life I have left, I want to maximize at the highest possible level for God’s kingdom and for eternity,’ Evans said ...