For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers from abroad
August 31, 2024
The 2024 Paris Games got off to a rocky start with many religious groups around the world, including the Vatican over a tableau in the opening ceremony perceived by some as evoking Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.”
August 04, 2024
When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest
July 23, 2024
More than 120 faith leaders are preparing for an Olympic challenge — how to spiritually support some 14,000 athletes and their staff who will take part in the Paris Games
June 09, 2024
Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.”
November 30, 2023
As the world’s eyes turn to France, host of the Olympics in two months, one of the country’s fundamental principles is under the spotlight — laïcité, or secularism
May 23, 2024
The upcoming Paris Olympics are likely to draw new attention to France's ban on its athletes wearing hijabs
May 23, 2024
Elevated by Pope Francis to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini has kept up his unflinching focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant in Central America
April 14, 2024
In the small town of Comitancillo in Guatemala’s mostly Indigenous highlands, two murals memorialize the nearly two dozen local migrants who died in mass tragedies en route to the United States recently
April 10, 2024
Each Holy Week, thousands of residents of the colonial, volcano-fringed city of Antigua participate in some of Guatemala’s oldest and most popular Easter traditions
March 30, 2024
Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants
March 07, 2024
Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services
February 11, 2024
Immigration courts are buckling under an unprecedented 3 million pending cases, most of them newly arrived asylum-seekers
January 15, 2024
Among the record numbers of migrants arriving in the U.S. are tens of thousands of children crossing the border without their parents
December 21, 2023
Starting well before dawn Sunday, hundreds gathered on the grounds of St. Ann Mission in the Florida farmland to bring flowers, candles and petitions to Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 12, 2023
Preparing for Hanukkah feels uniquely somber yet defiant this year for the Jewish communities in and around Miami Beach
December 06, 2023
Late fall is the most spiritual time of the year in traditional Hmong culture
November 25, 2023
For the auxiliary bishop of Managua, fellow priests and many in the pews who have had to flee or were exiled from Nicaragua recently, the Sunday afternoon Mass at a Miami parish is not only a way to find solace in community
November 16, 2023
Nearly two decades ago, Catholic priest Guilherme Peixoto started mixing up rock music at karaoke fundraisers for his debt-ridden parish in a small Portuguese village
November 10, 2023
Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace
October 08, 2023
In small towns across Italy, life has changed over the last generation as the Catholic faith loses relevance in people’s routines and choices
October 05, 2023
In Italy, centuries-old churches dot the landscape, sanctuaries and processions draw crowds, and nearly 80% of the population profess themselves Catholic
October 05, 2023
In Italy, centuries-old churches dot the landscape, sanctuaries and processions draw crowds, and nearly 80% of the population profess themselves Catholic
October 05, 2023
Because of a procedural change in how the U.S. government processes some green cards, faith communities across the country may lose thousands of leaders and workers
September 29, 2023
In the small town of Lamego in Portugal's Douro River Valley, where harvesting grapes for wine is in full swing in early September, one of Portugal’s largest and oldest religious festivals draws thousands
September 13, 2023
Multiple people shot along I-75 south of Lexington, Kentucky, authorities say
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Northern Illinois stuns No. 5 Notre Dame 16-14 with field goal in final minute
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