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May 13 2023

In this Oct. 23, 2017, photo, Carl Lentz, then pastor of Hillsong Church in New York, appears during an interview, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Carl Lentz, in first staff role from Hillsong, joins Transformation Church in TulsaCarl Lentz, in first staff role from Hillsong, joins Transformation Church in Tulsa

(RNS) — Carl Lentz, the ousted pastor of Hillsong New York City, has reached out to the staff of Church of Transformationa predominantly black, nondenominational megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, led

May 13 2023

Pope Francis is helped to his car at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter

Pope Francis admitted to hospital with respiratory infectionPope Francis admitted to hospital with respiratory infection

ROME (RNS) — Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital with a respiratory infection, the Vatican said, clarifying that it was not COVID-19 but would “require several days of

May 12 2023

Hamline University President Fayneese Miller in 2019. Photo courtesy of Hamline

Hamline University President to Retire Following Controversy Over Islamic ArtHamline University President to Retire Following Controversy Over Islamic Art

(RNS) — The president of Hamline University, who was widely criticized for her response to an art history professor who showed students a painting of the Prophet Muhammad, announced Monday

May 12 2023

For BLM’s Patrisse Cullors, art is vocation and salvationFor BLM’s Patrisse Cullors, art is vocation and salvation

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrisse Cullors was sitting at a table outside the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, the art collective she co-founded in Inglewood, Calif., taking a rare break from the

May 12 2023

Swami Vivekananda, seated second from right, at the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Sept. 11, 1893, in Chicago. Others seated on stage are Virchand Gandhi, from left, Hewivitarne Dharmapala and possibly G. Bonet Maury. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons

Symposium marks 130th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s arrival in the United StatesSymposium marks 130th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s arrival in the United States

(RNS) — In July 1893, a young Hindu monk from Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, came to the United States. His goal was to make the West aware of Hinduism, one

May 12 2023

Rabbi Harold Kushner. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia/Creative Commons

Harold Kushner was the rabbi of the United StatesHarold Kushner was the rabbi of the United States

(RNS) — “There are only two categories of Jewish books…” When I first embarked on a writing career and expected a modicum of literary (certainly not financial) success, that’s what

May 12 2023

Britain’s King Charles III, front center, and Queen Camilla, middle center, walk in the Coronation Procession after the coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London, May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

How King Carlos III became a royal menschHow King Carlos III became a royal mensch

(RNS) — I admit it. I have a thing for royalty. Which means this: There was a time (I’m not kidding you) when I could have named all the kings

May 12 2023

How King Carlos III became a royal menschHow King Carlos III became a royal mensch

(RNS) — I admit it. I have a thing for royalty. Which means this: There was a time (I’m not kidding you) when I could have named all the kings

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