Religion News Service

Dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault weapon, 21-year-old Devin Kelley opened fire at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others.

In the halal bakeries and markets that line Main Street, and in mosques that have been part of the community for decades, a familiar dread has taken hold after the latest terror attack in the U.S.

A federal judge on Monday (Oct. 31) barred President Donald Trump's administration from proceeding with plans to exclude transgender people from military service.

In a move many Native American and religious groups have feared, President Trump reportedly will shrink the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah.

Pope Francis is making his first phone call off the planet; on Thursday (Oct. 26), he will reach out to the six astronauts on the International Space Station.

Signs of the Times: Alertness to human irrationality and some self-doubt, especially when it comes to the ways we restrict, punish and scapegoat others, are certainly challenges from the witch hunts. But then, there's not much in the last century to suggest we'll ever learn.

The Trump administration moved toward a condemnation of "ethnic cleansing" against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, as officials were preparing a recommendation for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to unequivocally use the term for the first time.

Conservative African-American clergy launched a campaign to support a Colorado baker who refused to create a cake for a gay wedding.

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe has released hundreds of pages of court records related to sexual abuse allegations against clergy members in response to an order from a New Mexico judge.

As a little boy in Sunday school, Bassem Al-Janoubie was fascinated by the illustrated stories about the martyrs of Egypt’s Coptic Church. 

Ira Gerhart finally found a place last year to fulfill his yearslong dream of opening a brewery: a 1923 Presbyterian church. It was cheap, charming and just blocks from downtown Youngstown.

Muslim refugees to the United States, whose numbers have recently increased, have still been far outpaced by Christians refugees over the last decade and a half.

The Supreme Court dismissed a major challenge to President Trump's travel ban on majority-Muslim countries because it has been replaced by a new version.

American Catholic: Parishes need to be more welcoming to families, especially families in difficulties. Rather than greeting them with a list of rules to be followed, the document encourages "listening" as the first response. 

Within hours of the Oct. 1 mass shooting that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds, mourners and the merely curious started creating and visiting a spontaneous memorial.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping directive to agencies to do as much as possible to accommodate those who claim their religious freedoms are being violated.

Abdullah Antepli, one of only seven imams to give the opening prayer in the House of Representatives, delivered a plea for celebrating differences. 

The mass shooting in Las Vegas is the deadliest in modern U.S. history, but is it terrorism?

American Catholic: Catholics need to grow up and learn to live in a church where arguments take place, but we should not let disagreements break up the family.

As the nation reels from the latest mass shooting, religious and secular leaders are offering prayers and some are calling for stronger action on gun control.