Orthodox Jewish women attend an event celebrating the completion of the 7 1/2-year cycle of daily study of the Talmud, the central text of Jewish law, on Jan. 5, 2020, in Jerusalem. AP Photo/Tsafrir ...

(RNS) — When the ordination of Angelic Molen of Harare, Zimbabwe, as a deaconess by Metropolitan Seraphim, the Greek Orthodox archbishop of the south African country, was announced in a press release ...

Christians were ordered to recant their faith and valiant Christians who defied the order were burned alive, buried alive, ...

As this year’s session of the Synod on Synodality gets underway in Rome, South African women and women religious have reached new levels of frustration with the church and Pope Francis himself.

An Episcopal priest found a Christian psychedelic society after he had what he described as a deeply spiritual experience while using psilocybin. Now he has lost his ordination over concerns that he ...

When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a congregation in a synagogue. But “rabbi” means much more than that. For example, a rabbi could be a teacher, a nonprofit ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a congregation in a synagogue. But “rabbi” means much more than that. For example, a rabbi could be a ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Michal Raucher, Rutgers University (THE CONVERSATION) When people picture a ...