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Aug 10, 2020
When Pope Francis visited the United States in 2015, his welcomer-in-chief was then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Almost wherever Francis went, Biden was there — in the White House...
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May 25, 2020
Ali Muhammad’s days are quiet now.
Most years, Ramadan is overflowing with activity — a month of nightly break-the-fast dinners with friends and family, and weekly...
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Apr 15, 2020
A day after she drove an hour south and stood alone in the crowd, anxious, looking at the faces in the room and wondering what these people had to say to her, Rosalyn Johnson was...
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Apr 1, 2020
It was the last day of a 19-day period of daytime fasting for Baha’i believers all over the world. The Washington area’s Baha’i community would have ordinarily...
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Mar 20, 2020
Chuck Pierce’s son was concerned, like a lot of other people looking out on a world of ransacked grocery stores and canceled sports seasons and eerie lines of people standing...
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Feb 18, 2020
In September 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump gathered evangelical pastors, whose support he had courted assiduously, to discuss the political beliefs that they...
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Feb 6, 2020
As Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) delivered a history-making speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday afternoon, becoming the first U.S. senator to ever vote to remove from office a...
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Jan 17, 2020
Leaders of the United Methodist Church took notice when other Protestant denominations began allowing same-sex marriage — and in some cases were hit with a wave of...
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Jan 7, 2020
The brightly painted temple nestled in the farmlands of Fauquier County has been a beacon to thousands of American Buddhists for decades, beckoning devout daily visitors and...
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Jan 3, 2020
Mendy Spielman sat at the checkout counter at the Kol Tuv kosher supermarket in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, thinking of the violence that keeps gripping his Orthodox...