Source: Associated Press By STEPHEN WRIGHT and EILEEN NG PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian […]
Source: Swiss Info Additional reporting by Saad Sayeed; Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Nick Macfie Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 8, 2018 9:14 AMOCT 8, 2018 […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Pope Francis on Tuesday acknowledged that young people are being driven away from the Roman Catholic Church because of the way it has handled […]
Source: Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An association of theologians in Greece is urging school teachers not to use new books in religious studies classes, arguing that too much emphasis is placed on other faiths in the predominantly Orthodox Christian country. The association’s chairman, Iraklis Rerakis, on Wednesday said […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops to dream of a future free of the mistakes of the past as he opened […]
Source: The Washington Post By Chico Harlan VATICAN CITY — By age 9 or 10, she had her first doubts about the faith, and not long after, she felt confident telling her […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The archbishop of York, John Sentamu, is to retire in June 2020, creating a vacancy for the number two position in the Church of England […]
Source: DW Brazil once had the reputation of being the most Catholic country in the world. With the exception of General Ernesto Geisel, an evangelical Christian who ruled the country […]
Source: The Guardian By Benjamin Haas Crackdown on unofficial churches comes as Vatican and Beijing sign controversial deal on appointment of bishops. A man waits outside during a mass at the […]
Source: Bloomberg By Marc Champion and Cagan Koc The apartment where Kenneth and Marilyn Abney once worked as Mormon missionaries sits opposite the local high school for Alsancak, a lively […]
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI CAIRO (AP) — An autopsy on a Coptic Orthodox monk who had until recently belonged to a monastery northwest of Cairo where the abbot […]
Source: Associated Press By MATT VOLZ HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Jehovah’s Witnesses must pay $35 million to a woman who says the church’s national organization ordered Montana clergy members […]
Source: Reuters By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – On a visit to Israel two years ago, far-right Brazilian lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro leaned back into the River Jordan in a white […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)One rarely leaves his monastery high on a hill in Vatican City. The other speaks freely — too freely, critics say — but […]
BBC Documentary about Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Many in the West may not be able to locate Tibet on […]
Source: The New York Times By Ian Johnson BEIJING — Over the last two years, China’s estimated 60 million Christians have felt the power of a newly assertive government eager […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer September 21 NEW ORLEANS — Growing up in rural Mississippi, Gracie Robinson decided early on that she would never get married. In her Baptist […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
Source: The Atlantic By Conor Friedersdorf Refugees are not simply impoverished migrants. A refugee is defined, by a 1951 international convention, as a person who, “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Blackpool Tower will light up in rainbow colours this weekend in solidarity with LGBT people as Franklin Graham, the US conservative evangelical with links to […]