Once a month, just after dawn, dozens of women gather at the Western Wall to protest Orthodox Jewish insistence that women of non-orthodox faith must pray by Orthodox rules instead of the more liberal ...

A new book, When Women Pray: Eleven Catholic Women on the Power of Prayer explores what unique gifts women have to offer a Church Pope Francis so often says is “Mother” – in a world that aches for ...

JERUSALEM – Israeli police with metal barriers and human chains on Friday held back thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesters who tried to prevent a liberal Jewish women's group from praying at a key ...

Reporting from Jerusalem — Clutching smuggled Torah scrolls, dozens of feminist activists approached the Western Wall, wrapping themselves in colorful prayer shawls and chanting passages from the ...

Members of the activist group “Women of the Wall” pray with a Torah scroll during a monthly prayer near the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City July 24, 2017. Photo by Ronen Zvulun/REUTERS. “When ...

(RNS) This past weekend, Melania Trump walked up to the presidential podium, thanked the crowd and, with her husband by her side, said something I can’t remember any first lady or president doing in ...

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — It was just after she appeared on “Nightline” talking about her fight to change her mosque. The call, in Urdu, came on her cellphone: “If you want to stay alive, keep your mouth ...

“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space,” the English essayist Charles Lamb wrote, “and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.” That’s true as far as it goes—until ...

Lady Antebellum stepped onstage in Manchester, England, just days after the massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, solemn under the weight of the devastating events. Before the show, ...