(RNS) — Overall giving to the SBC’s national funding program is down about 2%.

(RNS) — A church that includes people with disabilities is a more radiant church.

(RNS) — The changes come as the denomination prepares to welcome a new presiding bishop with a history of bringing abuse to light.

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — In August 2023, groups of Muslim men burned dozens of homes and churches after some residents claimed they saw two Christian men tearing out pages from Islam’s holy book, the Quran.

(The Conversation) — Officials have vowed to keep fighting for permission to open the school as a charter – which would be a controversial first for the country.

(The Conversation) — Many in Nepal are protesting to bring back the Hindu monarchy, which was dissolved in 2008. A scholar of South Asian religions explains what’s behind these protests.

(RNS) — ‘The record before this Court makes clear that the Texas Attorney General’s use of the request to examine documents from Annunciation House was a pretext to justify its harassment of Annunciation House employees and the persons seeking refuge,’ Judge Francisco Dominguez wrote.

JERUSALEM (RNS) — ‘In America there is a high rate of interfaith marriages. Here, that issue is irrelevant to us,’ said Nachman Shai, dean of the HUC-JIR Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem.

(RNS) — Advocates argue the legal strategy that abortion bans violate religious freedom are not yet dead. In both the Missouri and Kentucky cases, appeals are planned.

(RNS) — ‘We are hoping that there is some kind of alternative plan to keep the church going, to keep the justice and peace programs going, to keep our advocacy work going,’ said Steven Nabieu Rogers, executive director of the Africa Faith and Justice Network.