c. 2013 Religion News Service RIO DE JANEIRO (RNS) It’s not every day that the pope drops in for a visit to your home. But Maria da Penha dos Santos...

c. 2013 Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England ( RNS) Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, said he was embarrassed and irritated following revelations...

c. 2013 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (RNS) Naming rites and rituals are seldom in the news — except, of course, when the person in question will be the future...

c. 2013 USA Today (RNS) Death threats were the last type of phone calls George A. Zimmermann thought he’d get after serving for 55 years as his...

c. 2013 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The “Nuns on the Bus” are back from their 6,800-mile trek across the U.S., but their hardest job may...

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) The box office hit “The Conjuring” has all the requisite features of a standard horror flick: creaky doors...

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) The Anti-Defamation League’s study of anti-Semitism in the U.S. shows a 14 percent decrease in incidents during 2012...

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) A song about ascending to heaven written by a dying 18-year-old, has gotten 7.7 million YouTube hits and at one point...

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) Businesses fail every day. So do films, industrial parks, hospitals, churches, and marriages. Dreams and hard work...

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) I first learned about President Obama’s comments about racism and the Trayvon Martin case last week when a Facebook...