(RNS) — On Tuesday (April 21), the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave Texas the green light to require every public elementary and secondary school classroom in the state to display the King James Version’s translation of the Ten Commandments. In its decision in Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, the court’s 9-8…
Pope Leo XIV offered more insight into where he stands on LGBT issues, telling reporters on his flight back to Rome from Equatorial Guinea that he plans to emphasize “issues of justice, equality and freedom” rather than “sexual matters.” A reporter asked Leo, who spent the last 11 days touring North and Central Africa, his thoughts…
A Reform UK candidate who called for a “white Britain” and said Keir Starmer should be shot is among a number of contenders fuelling doubts about the party’s claim to have tightened up its vetting. The past comments of Linda McFarlane and other political hopefuls have been unearthed ahead of the 7 May elections, including…
“As a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war,” Pope Leo XIV said about the war in Iran during his airborne press conference upon his return trip to Rome. “If there is regime change or no regime change, the question is how to promote the values in which we believe without the death of…
Iranian state media have shared footage appearing to show the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boarding two cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The video shows small boats carrying masked and armed men approaching the MSC Francesca and the Epaminondas. Analysis by BBC Verify indicates that parts of the video appear to have been filmed…
In a nearly five-minute phone interview with Donald Trump, the BBC’s North America editor Sarah Smith asked the US president about the war in Iran and the state of the so-called special relationship with the UK. Trump said King Charles’ visit to the US next week could “absolutely” help repair the relationship. And he told…
The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in dozens of U.S. attorney’s offices across the country. Senior Justice Department officials in Washington told colleagues during a meeting last week that civil litigators…
(RNS) — Though majorities in both groups support abortion being legal, a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that both white Catholics and white mainline/nonevangelical Protestants have demonstrated a small swing toward an anti-abortion position since 2024. In a survey conducted throughout much of 2025 and released Thursday (April 23), 57% of…
The UK is set to sign a new three-year deal with Paris aimed at stopping migrants crossing the Channel on small boats. Worth more than £600 million, the deal will mean riot police are deployed on French beaches. The Home Office says part of the funding will stop after a year if Paris fails to…
Little says Robbins refused to give her access to Mandelson’s vetting report Little says in March she had a meeting when she asked to see the Foreign Office’s documentation about the decision to grant Mandelson vetting. She said she was asking because this was documentation covered by the humble address. She said was told that…
