The smallest state in the United States, Rhode Island is only about 48 miles long and 37 miles wide. It’s bordered by Massachusetts in the north and east, the Atlantic Ocean in the south, and ...

(RNS) — On Ash Wednesday this year, about a dozen people attended a noon service at Boston’s Old North Church, founded in 1723. Two days later, a handful of worshippers took part in a Shabbat service ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of four Muslim inmates accuses officials at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections of systemic religious discrimination. Getty Images/iStockphoto Muslim inmates at a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The report was released by Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, whose office has been investigating the diocese since 2019. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new investigation ...

Those of us at the Providence Journal who knew Dick Dujardin, our longtime religion writer, remember him as a low-key guy, always with a bit of a smile, smoking a pipe when that was still allowed, a ...