Earlier this year, Lydia El-Sayegh got the good news that her beloved grandmother was able to escape from Gaza. While thankful her relative was no
Africa must be an architect of its own ecological future, said the continent’s Catholic bishops as they took part in the Second Africa Climate Summit, which ended Sept. 10 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
For the past two months, Hernandez and other residents have been waking up at 5 in the morning, three days a week, as part of Up and Running Again, a national program that helps residents of homeless shelters and rescue missions train for half-marathons.
Could artificial intelligence or short TV episodes help young adults engage more with the Bible?
Early on Sunday morning (Aug. 24), a dozen activists prayed in a circle before the barbed-wire gates of Delaney Hall, the 1,100-bed immigrant detention center that is the largest on the East Coast.
The Aug. 14 conference, themed “Change the story, redeeming race, reconciliation and the mission of the church,” invited faith leaders to engage in discussions on race, from a gospel-centric perspective.
The 44-year-old priest has kept St. Mathew, of the Anglican Church of Sudan, open to all Christians, after increased fighting has forced other pastors and priests to flee.
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, led a prayer vigil on Aug. 14, where he read the name of every child who has died in the conflict between Israel and Hamas since the start of the war in the Holy Land two years ago.
James C. Dobson, a psychologist who advocated a “family values” brand of conservative Christian morality on his popular radio shows and in his bestselling books, died Thursday (Aug. 21). He was 89.
Newell Presbyterian is one of hundreds of declining congregations with underutilized space, excess land, deteriorating buildings and soaring maintenance costs. But these churches are finding that they can stanch their fiscal woes by selling or, in many cases, leasing some of their land and repurposing their properties for affordable housing.
