2024 Photos of the Year

(RNS) — The year’s news in religion was dominated by a war already in progress on Jan. 1 between Hamas and Israel. Though not at root a religious war, as the months went by the conflict supercharged American-Jewish...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis cemented his legacy this past year, appointing friends and allies to key positions and ousting critics.  His crowning project during an October summit of bishops and laypeople was to to...

(RNS) — Hanukkah is here, and with it, the annual need to retell the story, and to make sure that we all know why, exactly, we are celebrating this holiday. No, this holiday was not about that little bit of oil...