Tool of faith or digital distraction? Catholic Church offers indulgences to faithful who fast from social media
Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.
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In Kenya, Churches Makes The Case For Sign Language Interpreters During Services
It was a jubilant service in a packed church in one of Kenya’s densely populated neighborhoods, featuring an animated sermon ...
Religious institutions hit hard by L.A. fires look to rebuild. Here’s how you can help
St. Mark’s joined at least nine other churches, mosques, synagogues, temples and religious institutions completely destroyed ...
Christianity Today3d
The Bestseller that Made Church Cool—and Optional
Donald Miller's ‘Blue Like Jazz’ spoke for a generation, and left disillusioned evangelicals more dissatisfied.
The Texas Tribune3d
Texas GOP chair claims church-state separation is a myth as lawmakers, pastors prep for “spiritual battle”
Abraham George’s comments are the latest sign of the state GOP’s embrace of fundamentalist ideologies that seek to center ...
Why Pete Hegseth nomination is a milestone for the rightwing Christian movement he follows
To rightwing church movement he follows, Pete Hegseth's nomination is an answered prayer amid push for Christian influence in government and military.
Many congregations look to a Sunday without a house of faith in LA County’s fire-ravaged areas
Esprit Jones of Pasadena dropped off clothes and shoes to Pasadena Foursquare Church, where four generations of her family ...
How Jimmy Carter's so-called betrayal of evangelicals led to MAGA
Hard as it may be to believe, Carter won the majority of evangelical voters in 1976. Being a white evangelical Christian from ...
'You are safe here': How a Baptist church became a haven for UT pro-Palestinian students
In April, police arrested 136 pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Texas. Many were students. This is the story of where they turned next.
Interesting Engineering13d
400-year-old vault stuffed with bodies and 1,500-year-old sarcophagi discovered
The restoration of Saint Philibert in Dijon quickly became an excavation that uncovered structures and coffins dating all the ...
Asia News14d
Jordan inaugurates the Church of the Baptism, a sign of peace in the Middle East
The structure stands on land in the Wadi al-Kharrar area donated by King Abdullah II where the Franciscan archaeologist Michele Piccirillo excavated some of the churches built by the first ...