It may be the start of a new year, but many of the same issues and concerns will dominate the news cycle in 2025. From Pope ...

The instant collapse of Assad’s rule will reshape the geopolitics of the Mideast for years to come. Within Syria itself, the challenge is how to replace the bloodthirsty past and current revolutionary ...

As 2024 draws to a close, the Christian community in India reflects on a year marked by increasing challenges and persecution ...

On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark ...

God’s always in the business of loving and healing the world. But given the state of humanity, healing rarely follows a ...

It’s the best of the Godbeat, 2024 version. Many of the nation’s top religion journalists pick their top piece of the year.

Among folks who earned no more than a high school diploma, the share who never attend church is about 58%, while those who attend once a month is much lower at 22%.. To me, there’s a clear line of dem ...

Former United States President Jimmy Carter, who spoke of his faith more openly than other modern leaders, taught a Baptist Sunday School class for decades and became the nation’s longest-lived ...

The news cycle hasn’t been kind to “Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim.” The film made headlines as the lowest-grossing ...

Just two days before Christmas, President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he had commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 ...

One of the things I love about the Christmas season is the music. The ancient music is, of course, powerful. Time-tested ...

In the 2024 presidential election campaign there were hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertising to convince voters ...