(RNS) — From the Black clergy who helped guide the Civil Rights Movement to evangelical Christian pastors who aligned with the Republican Party in the 1980s, clergy in America have often played an ...

Three out of every four Protestant ministers classify themselves as “conservative” or “fundamentalist,” while the fourth says he is “liberal” or “neo-orthodox.” So indicates a representative ...

THE ministry of the Protestant churches offers to-day a more diversified opportunity than it ever has offered before. Roman Catholicism always has been careful to put to use among its clergy a wide ...

As the Latino population climbs in the US, researchers say their congregations excel at fostering community and engaging new people. Hispanic churches in the United States face unique challenges but ...

A Berlin Protestant minister said she conducted a “poly wedding” for four men at a summer pop-up wedding event outside a Kreuzberg church. “The EKBO only marries couples who have been legally wed in a ...

Christian unity can be achieved only if it “takes root in the local communi ties,” says Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, the new president of the National Council of Churches. The roots are already sprouting ...

ONE of Dante’s finest passages celebrates the nuptials of St. Francis of Assisi and the Lady Poverty, ‘the widow of Christ.’ In the thought of the spiritual troubadours of the Middle Ages she had been ...