Source: The New York Times By CEYLAN YEGINSU OCT. 14, 2017 Photo Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, delivering a sermon this year. He denies having learned about severe beatings at Christian […]
Source: Religion & Politics By Gregory L. Freeze The image of the Russian Orthodox Church as the “handmaiden” of the state long prevailed in Tsarist Russia. After decades of Soviet persecution, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Helena Smith in Athens Greece’s leftwing government has passed legislation enabling citizens to determine their gender identity amid fierce condemnation from the Orthodox church and accusations the law […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Justin Welby has said he struggles with the question of whether gay sex is a sin and acknowledged that the gulf between conservative and […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Leaders of global Anglican communion expected to impose ‘consequences’ on Scottish church for its embrace of LGBTI equality The archbishop of Canterbury, […]
Source: Associated Press By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS MEXICO CITY (AP) — Our Lady of Angels Church has survived several major earthquakes, but Tuesday’s magnitude 7.1 shake proved to […]
By Zubair Khan Here is the LINK At link is a video by famous German TV N-24. Experiment has been made on a person by putting him on cross. His body could not sustain longer with lose legs. Then feet were also fixed on the cross. This position proved man […]
Source: USA Today BY Paul Singer, USA TODAY If you donate bottles of water, diapers, clothing or any other materials to hurricane victims in Texas or Florida, your donation will likely […]
Source: The Guardian By Giles Fraser The Church of England is woefully unprepared for the ideological winter that is to come. For too long we have been made content by […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein September 6 Craftsmen at Washington National Cathedral work Wednesday to replace symbols of the Confederacy from a stained-glass window. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post) Leaders […]
Source: The Washington Post By Kate Bowler August 29 Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch transforms into shelter Lakewood Church, a 606,000-square-foot megachurch in Houston where Joel Osteen preaches, is being used as a […]
Source: CNN (CNN)Pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch says it’s opening its doors Tuesday to residents displaced by flooding. Lakewood Church, which was founded by Osteen’s father in the 1950s, […]
Source: Christian Today It takes a lot to cancel church in the shiny Bible Belt stronghold of Houston, Texas, home to more megachurches than any city in America. Specifically, 9 […]
Source: Tampa Bay Times Reaction to this month’s Season 2 premiere of the Emmy-nominated Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath series has been swift, from the religion’s international spiritual headquarters in Clearwater […]
After public pressure Joel Osteen has seen the light, and will now open his spacious 16,800-seat megachurch to hurricane refugees. Osteen’s megachurch, Lakewood Church, is located near downtown Houston, and would make an ideal refugee center from those trying to escape the flooding. However, the 16,800 seat megachurch was closed during and […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Bishops in Ireland have created detailed guidelines to address an issue the Roman Catholic Church has tried to keep under […]
Source: Vox In the weeks leading up to Sunday, August 13, Emily C. Heath, a United Church of Christ pastor in Exeter, New Hampshire, was preparing her sermon for that […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer August 16 The Mormon Temple in Kensington, Md., is visible from the Beltway. (John Kelly/The Washington Post) For anyone who drives around the Capital Beltway, […]
Source: Religion And Politics By Marie Griffith The hatred exhibited by an array of white supremacists this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, horrified much of the nation. The frenzied scenes of […]
Source: BBC News Catholic clerics should face criminal charges if they do not report sexual abuse disclosed to them during confession, an Australian inquiry has recommended. It is among 85 […]