This paper is concerned with the stability analysis for continuous-time positive singular systems with distributed delays. By introducing an auxiliary system, a necessary and sufficient positivity condition is proposed for singular systems with distributed lags. Based on this condition, we present a sufficient stability condition for positive singular systems with distributed delays and extend the result to systems with distributed delays over a bounded time-varying interval. In addition, this stability condition is also necessary when strictly positive initial conditions are available. Numerical simulations are utilized to illustrate the effectiveness of our results. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.