Religion News Service, branded as RNS, is a
news agency
A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and All-news radio, radio and News broadcasting, television Broadcasting, broadcasters. A news agency ma ...
founded in 1934. It covers
religion
Religion is a range of social system, social-cultural systems, including designated religious behaviour, behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, religious text, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics in religion, ethics, or ...
,
ethics
Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...
,
spirituality
The meaning of ''spirituality'' has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape o ...
and
moral issues, and publishes news, information, and commentaries on faiths and religious movements to newspapers, magazines, broadcast organizations and religious publications.
History
RNS was founded in 1934 by journalist
Louis Minsky as an affiliate of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews. Everett R. Clinchy was the managing editor and co-founder.
RNS was acquired by the
United Methodist Reporter in 1983, by
Newhouse News Service in 1994, then by the Religion Newswriters Foundation in 2011.
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See also
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Institute for Nonprofit News (member)
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News media in the United States
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Religion in the United States
Religion in the United States is both widespread and diverse, with higher reported levels of belief than other wealthy Western world, Western nations. Polls indicate that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe in a Deity, higher power ...
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1934 establishments in the United States
Religious organizations established in 1934
News agencies based in the United States
Religious mass media in the United States
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