Religion

This spring, congregations are reimagining how to celebrate bar and bat mitzvahs in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

A lawsuit in Franklin County highlights challenges faced by incarcerated Muslims during Islam's holy month.

Hospital chaplain Camille Turner says the pandemic has taken away one of her most important tools of the trade: physical touch. Here's how she's adapting to the new normal.

Pennsylvania and New Jersey both ranked in the top five states that saw anti-Semitic incidents in 2019.

Houses of worship have taken a financial hit due to the pandemic. Many have applied for federal aid under the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program.

In Vikram Paralkar's new novel, a surgeon in India has one night to bring three people back from the dead, raising questions about medicine, corruption, and the afterlife.

Religious leaders have become accustomed to hugging and holding hands to comfort congregants. But during social distancing, they must find other ways to console.

For Muslims in the United States, there is no other time more centered around gathering in congregation than the holy month of Ramadan.

Amid a health crisis that’s disproportionately ravaging African-American communities, the Black church is busy, even if its pews are empty.

Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller shared Thursday that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

In the last month, many things once deemed impossible have suddenly become imaginable. That’s certainly true for the Religious Society of Friends.

A church in Chestnut Hill greeted neighbors with a bagpipe band, while another in New Castle offered services in its parking lot for pajama-clad worshippers.

Philadelphia churches have had three weeks to build their online chops for Holy Week, the biggest week of their calendar, during a pandemic.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, families are adapting the traditional Seder meal for virtual gatherings.

Delaware Sec. of DHSS talks about the COVID situation, an update on Philly and New Jersey's attempts to stop the spread, and how to do a "social distancing" Passover.