In the heart of London, on one of its most iconic streets, the side of a small, Baroque-style church has recently been draped in a
African Christian leaders attending a conference with faith-based health organizations in late November called for countries on the continent to do more to replace U.S. Agency for International Development funds that were cut by the Trump administration earlier this year.
As December begins, we want to start looking forward to celebrating a joyful Christmas. Doing so is tough with wars still in Ukraine and the Middle East. The world situation is so bleak, some are tempted to give up hope. The Christian Advent is full of hope, but it also reminds us that we have to work to prepare the way for the Lord, not just wait passively for his coming.
On Nov. 18, the pastor of an 80-person Latino Pentecostal church got a concerning WhatsApp audio message. The message, allegedly created by an unidentified pastor, circulating among Atlanta-area evangelical faith leaders, claimed massive immigration raids would occur there that week on Thursday and Friday.
ccording to some archeologists and historians, the basilica was the meeting place for the roughly 200 bishops convened by Emperor Constantine in 325 to confront a theological crisis and articulate the foundation of their shared Christian faith.
Some in Tanzania are facing a death sentence for demonstrating against what they see as flawed elections. Some who have been arrested await word on their fate. Hundreds of others died in the protests, according to news reports in recent days, leaving hundreds more to mourn and bury their relatives or to desperately search for the missing.
Dressed in a clerical collar and posing no threat, I was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by Illinois State Police while protesting outside the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Nov. 1.
Terence Lester, wearing a black hoodie and a beanie, sat atop a tall, black curbside refrigerator in the Atlanta suburb of College Park, Georgia, on a sunny Tuesday afternoon in November in hopes of bringing attention to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP benefits.
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas announced Nov. 1 that one of its priests, a Kenyan national, has been detained by immigration officials despite working in the state legally.
