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Religious media

This list provides links and resources to American print, broadcast and electronic media affiliated with denominations or faith groups.

Except as noted, all descriptions come from the linked sites, and do not imply endorsement by or affiliation with RNA/RNF.

Interfaith

CrossCurrents Online
Provides "the very best thought and writing being done on the world's major faith traditions" as well as recommended resources for better understanding of religious traditions and the interaction between them.

Beliefnet.com
"The ambitious venture-capital-backed multifaith "supersite" on religion, spirituality and morality."

BY FAITH GROUP

Bahá'í

Official faith group newspapers and magazines
• The Bahá'ís Magazine Bahá'í International Community

Official faith group news services
• Baha'i World News Service

Buddhism

Nonprofits and media groups
• Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Christianity

Official faith group newspapers and magazines
• Baptist Standard Southern Baptist Convention (Texas)
• Biblical Recorder Baptist (North Carolina)
• Christian Chronicle Churches of Christ (Oklahoma Christian University)
• Christian News Northwest Evangelical (Oregon)
• Good News United Church of God
• Gulf Coast Christian Newspaper Evangelical (Alabama)
• Reformed Worship Christian Reformed Church in North America
• Watchtower and Awake! Jehovah's Witnesses

Official faith group news services
• Adventist News Network Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Anglican Communion News Service
• Assemblies of God News Service
• American Baptist News Service American Baptist Churches, USA
• Baptist Press Southern Baptist Convention
• Catholic News Service U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Christian Science Publishing Society
• Episcopal News Service (ECUSA)
• ELCA News Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Reporter
• Nazarene News Network Church of the Nazarene
• NCC News Service National Council of Churches
• REC News Exchange Reformed Ecumenical Council
• World Council of Churches
• Orthodox World News Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
• Presbyterian News Service Presbyterian Church (USA).
• United Church of Christ
• United Methodist News Service
• Unitarian Universalist Association

Nonprofits, magazines and media groups
• America magazine America Press, Inc.; national Catholic weekly magazine
• Agape Press
• Anglicans Online independent/Society of Archbishop Justus
• Associated Baptist Press
• Associated Church Press
• Baptist World Alliance
• Catholic Press Association
• Catholic World News Domus Enterprises
• Charisma NOW Strang Communications
• The Christian Century
• Christian Citizen/CitizenUSA Citizens Media Group Inc. (Dayton, Ohio)
• Christian Examiner Keener Communications Group (California)
• Christian News Service/Worthy News Worthy Ministries (Maryland)
• Christian Communication Network
• Christianity Today/Christianity Today International
• Commonweal
• Religion Today (Crosswalk)
• The Wittenburg Door Christian satire magazine (Trinity Foundation)
• Ecumenical News International
• Gegrapha We believe in the integrity of the profession and we reject the use of journalism for any political, philosophical or religious propagandistic purposes, even those pertaining to Christianity.
• Good News, etc. Good News, Publishers, Inc. (California)
• National Catholic Register
• Religion News Service
• Religion Journal
• Sojourners
• Stewardship
• Wichita Chronicle McBride Publications (Kansas)
• National Catholic Reporter
• World Magazine
• World Journalism Institute The mission of the World Journalism Institute is to recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the mainstream newsrooms of America.

Electronic media
• CatholicTV
• Christian Broadcasting Network
• Ecumenical News International (ENI)
• Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)
• K-LOVE radio
• Moody Broadcasting Network
• Sky Angel
• Trinity Broadcasting Network

Local and regional religious press

Hinduism

Back to Godhead
Bi-monthly publication of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

Hinduism Today
Monthly magazine of international Hinduism published by Hawaii-based teacher Sivaya Subramuniyaswami.

Islam (Muslim)

Official faith group newspapers and magazines
• The American Muslim and the Muslim Journal Muslim American Society
• Islamic Horizons Islamic Society of North America
• The Message Islamic Circle of North America

Electronic media
• Bridges TV
• Radio Islam

Local and regional religious press

Jainism

Federation of Jain Associations in North America (JAINA)
Umbrella organization of over fifty-five Jain centers across North America; publishes Jain Digest.

Jain Study Circle
Publishers of The Jain Study Circular, a quarterly magazine on Jainism; the site is also a resource for books and other educational materials.

Young Jains of America
An umbrella organization created in the hopes of "establishing a network to share Jain heritage and religion through youth;" publishes Young Minds.

Judaism

Official faith group newspapers and magazines
None

Official faith group news services
• Orthodox Union
• Reform Judaism Magazine Union for Reform Judaism
• United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism association of Conservative congregations in North America
• Lubavitch News Service

Nonprofits and media groups
• JewishLink.net local newspaper listings
• Jewish Telegraph Service
• Forward
• Judaism American Jewish Congress
• Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture, & Society

Electronic media
• JTN Productions

Local and regional religious press

Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

Official faith group news services
• Church News

Native Peoples

Akwesasne Notes
Quarterly journal known as the "Voice of Indigenous Peoples."

Indian Country Today / Lakota Times
A leading American Indian news source.

Native American Press / Ojibwe News
National and regional news weekly.

Native American Times
National monthly paper published by Oklahoma Indian Times, Inc.

Navajo Times
Tribally owned weekly paper of the Navajo people.

News from Indian Country
Twice-monthly independent Indian-owned newspaper.

Scientology

Official faith group news services
• Scientology newsroom

Atheists/Secular Humanists

Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.
Focuses on separation of church and state and publishes the newspaper Freethought Today.

Institute for Humanist Studies
Resources include online courses in humanist thought and the Humanist Network News service.

Council for Secular Humanism
Offers Free Inquiry magazine and a worldwide index of humanist groups.

TRADE AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• American Jewish Press Association The American Jewish Press Association was founded in 1944 as a voluntary not-for-profit professional association for the English-language Jewish Press in North America. Today, its membership consists of about 250 newspapers, magazines, individual journalists and affiliated organizations throughout the United States and Canada.
• Associated Church Press The oldest religious press association in North America, the Associated Church Press, founded in 1916, is an international community of communication professionals brought together by faithfulness to their craft and by a common task of reflecting, describing, and supporting the life of faith and the Christian community.
• Association of Christian Journalists
• Catholic Press Association The mission of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada is to build and strengthen the value and worth of the Catholic press by facilitating the professional, economic and spiritual growth of our members.
• Christian Newspaper Association
• Coalition of Religious Press Associations
• Episcopal Communicators
• Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
• Evangelical Press Association seeks to promote the cause of evangelical Christianity and to enhance the influence of Christian journalism.
• Faith and Values Media
• National Religious Broadcasters
• Religion Communicators Council

MEDIA LITERACY AND CRITICISM
• The Arab Media section of al-bab.com aims to monitor these developments in the fields of newspapers, radio, television, cinema and the internet, and to provide a forum for debate on such issues as freedom and censorship.
• Arab Media Watch: Objective British coverage of Arab issues
• Arab Press Freedom Watch has been established to play an active role in defending freedom of the press, human rights, and promoting democracy.
• Center for Media Literacy religion and spirituality topics
• Resource Center for Media, Religion and Culture site at the University of Colorado's Center for Mass Media Research
• "Religious Broadcasters and the Web: What's the audience looking for?" by Michael J. Laney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communications, Lee University (1999)
• The Religious Broadcasting site at the University of Virginia has sections on televangelism, radio and other topics.