Kimberly Winston

Biles, a first-time Olympian, is a Catholic. She has said she routinely lights a candle to St. Sebastian, the patron saint of athletes and of Rio,...

(RNS) It’s a long way from Hollywood, yet a swampy corner of southeast Mississippi has given the film world its latest hero — or maybe antihero.

Rock ‘n’ roll, pop, soul, R&B icon Prince has died at age 57.

Before his death at 62, Christopher Hitchens, the uber-atheist and best-selling author of “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,”...

On Easter Sunday, Pakistani Christians did not have to go to church to die. They were attacked in a public park, near a children’s swingset. A...

Of Kings and Prophets tells the story of the aging King Saul (Ray Winstone), the ascending David (Olly Rix) and the women who love and hate them.

The Birth of a Nation tells the story of a historical figure, Nat Turner. Turner was a slave and a preacher who organized an uprising against white...

The Anglican Communion voted to censure its American branch, the Episcopal Church, during a meeting in Canterbury, England, called to reflect on...

The Supreme Court ruling that prompted the White House to light up like a giant rainbow made the top slot in the Religion Newswriters Association’s...

In some of his strongest remarks on the subject to date, President Barack Obama on Monday (Nov. 16) denounced calls for a religious test for...

The husband-and-wife team say their Catholicism — with its daily prayer, weekly Mass and rosary recitation with their five kids — is such a part of...

When Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker spoke last Saturday (April 25) to an influential gathering of Christian conservatives in an Iowa...

The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, the “Hour of Power” religious broadcaster, once raised $18 million to build his landmark Crystal Cathedral in Southern...

Sen. Randal Howard “Rand” Paul, the junior Republican from Kentucky, launched his 2016 presidential campaign on Tuesday (April 7) in Louisville.

For Catholics, Episcopalians and some Lutherans, March 17 is the Feast Day of St. Patrick. For the rest of us, it’s St. Patrick’s Day — a midweek...

Sunni and Shiite Muslims, two main sects of Islam, have been in conflict for more than a millennium. Why does such an ancient division continue to...

What does a dirty forehead have to do with being a Christian and why is this ritual gaining in popularity?

A new study of Twitter finds that self-identified religious users are more likely to tweet to members of their own faith than to members of a...