State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Interfaith Alliance’s new Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy Guthrie Graves-Fitzimmons

(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes annual Assumption of Mary rituals, a mass cremation in Bali and more.

(RNS) — ‘Voting Kamala … (is) a vote against another four years of faith leaders justifying the actions of a man who destroys the message Jesus came to spread,’ said Jerushah Duford, granddaughter of the Rev. Billy Graham.

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Penn. (RNS) — It’s one of over 150 new LDS temples in the process of being built and dedicated around the globe.

NEW YORK (RNS) — The centerpiece float of Lord Ram at this year’s parade has been met with fierce criticism from those who say it represents anti-Muslim sentiment.

(RNS) — Project 2025 was the perfect test of this emerging movement’s capacity to see it, name it and fight it. And they did.

(RNS) — Based on the real-life story of an arts program, the film follows inmates who form a theater troupe while serving their sentences, processing their emotions through musical performance and acting.

(RNS) — As Indian Americans become more visible in politics and public life, there is a growing need to reflect on the kind of legacy we are building.

KOBLENZ, Germany (AP) — Sasha Skochilenko and Sofya Subbotina reunited earlier this month in Germany, shortly after Skochilenko and other Russian prisoners were exchanged in a historic East-West swap — a happy if unlikely ending to an over two-year ordeal.

 Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A minister and a rabbi walk into a bar, and when they come out, they are the same person.