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Yara Nardi / Reuters The Pope's Turnaround on Sex Abuse May Have a ‘Tsunami Effect’
Francis is trying to fix a series of “grave errors” in Chile, and allegedly affirmed the gay identity of a victim there.
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Reuters A Black Bishop Brings a Political Message to the Royal Wedding
The head of the Episcopal Church spoke about poverty, hunger, and war during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nuptials.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters Jerusalem’s Ramadan Is Different This Year
The Muslim holy month began during a dramatic and deadly week in a region where even religious events are shrouded in politics.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters The End of Trump Won't Be the End of Trumpism
A new book—tweeted out by the president himself—argues that America is in the midst of a populist realignment.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters Celebration in Jerusalem, Bloodshed in Gaza
The new American embassy opens during a chaotic and violent week in the Middle East—and it's just the beginning.
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Margaret Hagan A Design Lab Is Making Rituals for Secular People
Will it work?
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters There’s More to Being Jewish Than Fighting Anti-Semitism
A new book looks at the fight against resurgent hatred in Trump’s America, but its prescriptions can’t address the other crisis facing American Judaism.
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Mohammed Salem / Reuters Muslims Recoil at a French Proposal to Change the Quran
Some of France’s most prominent figures, concerned about anti-Semitism, have signed a shocking manifesto aimed at curbing it.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump Creates a Not-So-New Faith Office in the White House
The president’s initiative sounds a lot like those of Barack Obama and George W. Bush. But the religious influences on Trump’s government are radically different.
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Netflix Beyond the Spectacle of Wild Wild Country
Watching the Netflix documentary is a strange experience when you’re constantly waiting to see if a loved one will appear onscreen.
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Arindam Dey / Getty An Indian Politician Claimed Ancient Hindus Invented the Internet
… then the Indian internet laughed at him.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters A Cassandra Cry Against Pope Francis
Ross Douthat's views on the pope are intensely unpopular. But has he identified a fundamental tension in the Church?
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Mukesh Gupta India’s Vicious Patriarchy
The gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl has left many Indians wondering what it will take to stop sexual violence.
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James Baillie / Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters / ... The Doctored 'Memoir' of a Jewish Boy Kidnapped by the Vatican
Edgardo Mortara’s autobiography is roiling Catholic-Jewish relations—based on the false assumption that the text is accurate.
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Hussein Malla / AP When Terrorists and Criminals Govern Better Than Governments
If people can’t get the leadership they crave from the state, they’ll find somebody else to do the job.
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Ronen Zvulun / Reuters Netanyahu's Incredible Flip-Flop on African Migrants
First he planned to deport 40,000 people from Israel. Then he backed off. And now…?
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The Americanization of an Ancient Faith
The 2,000-year-old Coptic Church is trying something new: spreading its message across the United States—and the rest of the world.
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Vincent Du / Reuters 'This Is Making a Lot of Christians in China Very Nervous'
The case of a bishop detained by the Chinese government—and what it says about a looming deal between Beijing and the Vatican
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters The Labour Party Was Once a Haven for British Jews—What Happened?
A spate of anti-Semitic scandals is forcing the U.K. to reassess the history of one of its largest political parties.
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters The Meaning of France's March Against Anti-Semitism
The murder of a Holocaust survivor is forcing the country to embrace a new, unfamiliar kind of religious and ethnic solidarity.
