Catholicism
How Do You Get Religion Understood?
Church attendance in the U.S. is on a 20-year nosedive. From 70% attending services in 1999, it has declined year after year to 47% in 2020…
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Religious News From Around the Web November 8, 2021
Sikh Festival Draws 100,000 to Yuba City, Calif.; Texas Voters Amend State Constitution, Expand Religious Liberty; Judge: Religion Exempt From LGBTQ Bias Liability; U.S. Supreme Court…
WRN Editorial Staff
Nov 8, 2021
Agnosticism
Religious News From Around the Web November 1, 2021
President Biden “a Good Catholic” Says Pope Francis; Buddhist Reality and Freedom From Illusion; Ásatrú, Viking Religion on Rise in Iceland; Religious Exemption to Vaccine Mandates…
WRN Editorial Staff
Nov 1, 2021
Atheism
How Does Apple Enforce Communist Party Religious Censorship in China?
Apple has just removed several religious apps from the App Store of China, a move denying millions what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) say are “unauthorized…
Catholicism
What is the Synod of Bishops? A Catholic Priest and Theologian Explains, By William Clark
On Oct. 10, 2021, Pope Francis formally opened a two-year process called “a synod on synodality,” officially known as Synod 2021-2023: For a Synodal Church.” In…
Catholicism
Religious News From Around the Web October 25, 2021
Prayers Requested for Haiti Missionary Hostages; The Gulf Between “Free Exercise” and “Freedom of Worship”; LGBTQ Support of Utah Compromise; Afghan Sikhs Must Convert to Islam…
WRN Editorial Staff
Oct 25, 2021
Catholicism
Religious News From Around the Web October 18, 2021
Did Columbus’s Fear of Islam Affect Treatment of Indigenous People? What the Media Doesn’t Get About Religion; Pope Begins Two-Year Conference on Church Future; Employers Caught…
WRN Editorial Staff
Oct 18, 2021
Amish
Religious News From Around the Web October 4, 2021
Religious Liberty, Abortion and Death Penalty on Court Docket; Bishops Apologize for Church Role in Indian Residential School System; Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandates? Hostilities to…
WRN Editorial Staff
Oct 4, 2021
Catholicism
Religious News From Around the Web September 6, 2021
Texas Churches Can’t be Forced to Close Under New Law; Catholics, Other Religious Groups Help Refugees; Nearly 60 Percent of White Evangelicals are Vaccinated; Coalition Defends…
WRN Editorial Staff
Sep 6, 2021
Bahá'í Faith
Religious News From Around the Web August 30, 2021
PBS Video: David Brooks on Kabul, Afghanistan; Iranian Government Seizes Baha’i Property; Supreme Court and Religious Liberty; Potsdam Gets First Synagogue Since WWII; Christianity Principles Under…
WRN Editorial Staff
Aug 30, 2021
Catholicism
Religious News From Around the Web August 16, 2021
Facebook Rolls Out Prayer Group; Churches, Organizations Pitch In To Help in Dixie Fire; Supreme Court’s Next Big One: Religion and Abortion; Infrastructure Bill Enforces Gender…
WRN Editorial Staff
Aug 16, 2021
Catholicism
Profiles in Faith: Patriarch Bartholomew Bridges East-West Christian Divide
INTRODUCTION His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is the 270th Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Born in present-day Turkey in 1940, Dimitrios Archontonis, as Bartholomew…