Please turn JavaScript on
header-image

Religion News Service

Click on the "Follow" button below and you'll get the latest news from Religion News Service via email, mobile or you can read them on your personal news page on this site.

You can unsubscribe anytime you want easily.

You can also choose the topics or keywords that you're interested in, so you receive only what you want.

Religion News Service title: Home - Religion News Service

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  7.47 / day

Message History

RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — As the United States and Israel began pummeling Iran with airstrikes Saturday (Feb. 28), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a biblical analogy to explain his motives for going...


Read full story

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Hormoz Shariat preaches to a congregation of millions of Iranian Christians around the world, those who have scattered because of repression at home and those who, having stayed, have long been the target of arrest by Iranian authorities, frequently accused of being tools of Western powers.

The Tehran-born, now Texas-based founder of


Read full story

(RNS) — This evening in synagogues all over the world, Jews will gather for Purim and read the scroll of Esther.

The Book of Esther calls the story an “iggeret,” which can translate to “epistle,” or a letter addressed to a specific community. It’s for generations of Jews to open again and again, whenever history turns dark. 

The gaiety of Purim mask...


Read full story

(RNS) — As luck would have it, the outbreak of war between the United States, Israel and Iran took place shortly before the Jewish holiday of Purim. One consequence is, in Israel at least, what is usually a festive day of revelry and foolishness will instead be spent in


Read full story