Religion

A Filipino congregation took in its own members after their Lahaina homes burned

5:29pm August 15, 2023

Members of Koinonia Pentecostal Church in Lahaina, Hawaii, were displaced by the fire there. The Filipino congregants are unsure when they'll be able to return home.

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Why 'the guy' from 'The Office' wants a spiritual revolution

7:22am August 14, 2023

by Rachel Martin

Rainn Wilson's book calls for a spiritual revolution in America. And even though he himself is a very funny guy, he is not joking about this at all.

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Religious leaders at the first Parliament of the World's Religions in 1893 gathered as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

Parliament of the World's Religions seeks understanding and action

5:00am August 11, 2023

by Jason DeRose

The Parliament of the World's Religions is about to begin in Chicago. The first Parliament took place in 1893 and is considered the beginning of the modern interfaith movement.

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Parliament of the World's Religions hopes to show people the good that faith can do

4:44pm August 10, 2023

by Jason DeRose

The Parliament of the World's Religions is about to begin in Chicago. The first Parliament took place in 1893 and is considered the beginning of the modern interfaith movement.

People pray during a "Evangelicals for Trump" campaign event in 2020.

He was a top church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis

5:44pm August 08, 2023

Russell Moore criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention's response to a sexual abuse crisis. Then he found himself on the outside.

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A portion of Grand Canyon National Park and the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument

New national monument comes after more than a decade of advocacy by Native nations

4:43pm August 08, 2023

by Ryan Heinsius

The new national monument that President Biden is designating in Arizona today comes after Native nations advocated for decades to protect the area

Patty Krawec at a Wet'suwet'en solidarity event at the Canada-U.S. border.

This writer shares the right (and wrong) ways to honor Indigenous spirituality

6:01am August 06, 2023

by Rachel Martin

Sometimes we find belonging in the most unexpected places. And sometimes, we find it buried deep in our own histories — in our own family legacies, as Patty Krawec did.

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Russell Moore on 'altar call for Evangelical America'

6:14pm August 05, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Russell Moore, editor-in-chief of the Christianity Today magazine about his new book Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call For Evangelical America.

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Sacramento Area Congregations Together (Sac ACT) is providing English workbooks so the migrants can learn the language. The group also gives out quarters so they can do laundry.

Communities of faith welcome migrants caught in polarized immigration debate

7:46pm August 02, 2023

by Jason DeRose

When migrants from Latin America were flown from Texas and dropped off in Sacramento with nowhere to go, a group of congregations came together to care for them.

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A Star of David hands from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in July.

A jury deliberates over the sentence for the Tree of Life synagogue shooter

5:22pm August 01, 2023

The man convicted of killing 11 worshipers and wounding six others at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 could face the death penalty. The attack is the deadliest antisemitic assault in U.S. history.