NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist and pastor David Roach about an ideological rift at a Washington-area church that highlights similar divisions in evangelical groups across the U.S.
Court documents obtained by The Boston Globe show that McCarrick is charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s.
The Vatican is holding its biggest criminal trial in modern history. The case alleges 10 people, including a once-powerful cardinal, of defrauding the Holy See of tens of millions of dollars.
At least two St. Louis schools are named after bishops who owned and purchased slaves. Students, alumni and parents weigh in on what they would like the Archdiocese of St. Louis to do.
In a resignation letter posted to Twitter on Monday, West says the university is suffering from "intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep depths."
Muslims, the third-largest faith group in federal prisons, are significantly underrepresented among the chaplaincy, according to a recent Department of Justice report.
For years, religion in America was changing rapidly: The proportion of white Christians was shrinking, largely replaced by people who have no religious affiliation. Now, those trends have plateaued.
NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, and Reverend Michael Mills about confronting Christian nationalism in the U.S.
The Vatican said the 84-year-old pope had been diagnosed with "symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon," a reference to a narrowing in the large intestine.
A new Canadian policy answers a 2015 call for government action. Danita Bilozaze hopes it means that no one will face the resistance she did to rescue her name from a history of forced assimilation.
Palestinians in a Jerusalem neighborhood face the threat of having their homes demolished. The move would be to make room for a biblical park of ancient sites sought by Jewish settlers.
With Oregon set to end pandemic restrictions, Pastor Shon Neyland is fighting to get his congregation vaccinated. The vaccination rate within Black communities lags behind the state's overall numbers.
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to pastor Ed Litton, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention, about the future of America's largest protestant denomination after the group's difficult year.
Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest, tells NPR's Michel Martin about the significance of the political and social issues that were discussed at the leadership meetings of two prominent religious groups.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has voted to move forward with a process that could call into question the eligibility of politicians like President Joe Biden to receive Communion.
The Supreme Court saw a case that pitted religious freedom against gay rights — and sided with the adoption agency that the city of Philadelphia wouldn't work with because they exclude LGBTQ couples.
The Southern Baptist Convention meets this week in Nashville, bringing to the fore a host of controversial issues that threaten to cause a rift among the faithful.
NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to Heidi Schlumpf of the National Catholic Reporter about U.S. Catholic Bishops considering whether pro-choice politicians should be prohibited from taking communion.
