Adelle M. Banks

Religious leaders reacted swiftly—with legislative appeals and collective grief—to the release of video footage of police offi...

Frank Pavone, an anti-abortion activist who was until recently a Catholic priest, addressed a small crowd outside a Planned Pa...

The religious makeup of the new Congress bucks the trends seen in American religious life, a new...

Calvin O....

Two years ago on Election Day, Lee May, pastor of Transforming Faith Church, a predominantly Black congregation in Stonecrest,...

Jonathan Lee Walton, an academician, preacher, and administrator who has served on the faculties of Wake Forest and Harvard di...

Faith leaders from a range of religions are teaming up with World Health Organization officials to help prevent monkeypox as outbreaks of the disease occur across the globe.

Ron Sider, an author, seminary professor and evangelical social justice activist, has died, according to an online update from...

Faith leaders from a wide range of traditions, including those whose houses of worship have been attacked, were at the White House on July 11 as members of Congress and other gun control advocates ...

The African Methodist Episcopal Church has sued a former executive who oversaw its pension plan’s investment portfolio, charging that he and others embezzled money and defrauded AME clergy and chur...

Bishop Mildred “Bonnie” Hines, the first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, has died at age 67.

Bishop Vashti Mc­Kenzie has been named interim president and general secretary of the National Council of Churches, the ecumenical orga­ni­zation announced on May 10.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee has appointed Willie McLaurin to serve as interim presi­dent and CEO, marking the first time that any entity of the predominantly White denomin...

On the day of a major voting rights debate on Capitol Hill, a social justice coordinator for the Progressive National Baptist Convention said fighting for voting rights is an effort to conquer evil...

The National Council of Churches announced on Janu­ary 26 that Jim Winkler, its general secretary and president since 2013, is leaving his post.

Rashad Hussain has been confirmed as the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, making him the first Muslim American in the role.

A new study from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research provides a look at the state of churches in the wake of the ongoing pandemic.

A pastor who had been locked out of the church she was appointed to lead in June preached for the first time from its pulpit on October 31. The lockout was allegedly due to her gender.

The National Council of Churches has elected an all-female slate of officers for the first time in the ecumenical organization’s 71-year history.

Georgia senator Raphael Warnock received the Roose­velt Institute’s Free­dom of Worship Award in a ceremony on October 13.