May 1, 2024, 9:33am Churches & Religion
United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Read story
April 30, 2024, 3:25pm Churches & Religion
United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality on Tuesday — voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ policies. Read story
April 29, 2024, 3:13pm Churches & Religion
United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of their first legislative gathering in five years — one that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting their church’s longstanding bans on same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy. Read story
April 27, 2024, 5:32pm Churches & Religion
By mid-2024, Claudia Sheinbaum will most likely become Mexico’s first female president. She would also be its first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics. Read story
April 27, 2024, 6:04am Churches & Religion
Thousands of United Methodists are gathering in Charlotte, N.C., for their big denominational meeting, known as the General Conference. Read story
April 24, 2024, 8:15am Churches & Religion
Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop that started the criminal investigation. Read story
April 24, 2024, 8:13am Churches & Religion
The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Chuch has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Read story
April 22, 2024, 6:02am Churches & Religion
Washington State University junior Olivia Bustillos walked onto the Pullman campus Saturday morning to mourn two of her family members: Peanut and Snowball. Read story
April 21, 2024, 5:21pm Churches & Religion
Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year, commemorating the exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible. To many Jews, it symbolizes freedom and the birth of a Jewish nation. Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:04am Churches & Religion
As more than 100 men carrying an elaborate float of Jesus halted before him, Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini lost no time in calling for social justice — the hallmark of the Catholic bishop’s decadeslong frontline ministry. Read story
