Source: Associated Press By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Catholic cardinal received “foreign information” that attempts would be made this week to attack a church and […]
The papacy Peter Stanford Pope Francis the reformer is being challenged by his conservative predecessor – who now has a far-right backing including Steve Bannon Sat 20 Apr 2019 […]
By Joaquin Flores, who is Editor-in-Chief of Fort Russ News, as well as the Director of the Belgrade based think-tank, the Center for Syncretic Studies. Flores explains that despite some […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack For LGBTQ Latter-day Saints and their allies, it’s been a long 3½ years. In November 2015, The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
By AFP – Mar 28,2019 – JORDAN TIMES African Christian migrants pray in a church ahead of the Pope’s visit, in Rabat, Morocco, on Sunday (Reuters photo) VATICANCITY — Pope Francis […]
Source: CNN BY Daniel Burke (CNN)When the messages come during the dark of night, Russell M. Nelson reaches for his lighted pen and takes dictation from the Lord. “OK […]
Source: CT A “climate of heightened sensitivity” and increasingly broad definitions of ‘hate crime’ are putting freedom of speech and belief at risk, the Catholic Church in Scotland has warned. The Church said there needed to be “room for debate and a robust exchange of views” as it warned that […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Marc Bennetts MOSCOW (RNS) — Authorities in Vladivostok, the largest city in far eastern Russia, are planning to erect a gigantic statue of Jesus Christ […]
Source: Vox By Daniel Cox Jennifer, a young mother and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in northern Virginia, is honest about the challenges of being Mormon […]
Source: NPR BY NINA TOTENBERG The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready to let stand a 40-foot cross on public land in Maryland, but the justices struggled to come up […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) — With boy choristers singing their version of “Everything Is Awesome,” the Washington National Cathedral unveiled the foundation of a […]
Source: NPR BY NINA TOTENBERG A giant concrete cross standing in the middle of a busy median strip is the latest symbol of a constitutional fight that has raged for […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey In recent years, the deep division over sexuality in the United Methodist Church has led many in the church to use […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Tom Heneghan PARIS (RNS) — It’s been 100 years since Germany’s first democratic government decided to stop making generous payments to its Protestant and Roman […]
Source: First Things by Charlotte Allen Duke University, which prides itself on being an elite and cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, has suddenly reminded the world—and probably many of its own […]
Source: Reuters BY Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 152 Catholic priests in Mexico have been suspended in the past nine years for sexual abuse against minors, Mexico’s […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carla Herreria VOICES OF FAITH Former nun Doris Wagner has spoken publicly about the harassment and abuse she says she faced in the Roman Catholic Church. […]
Source: The New York Times By Jane Margolies [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Since the blockbuster musical “Hamilton,” tourists have been […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The largest association of religious sisters in the United States called Thursday for an overhaul of the male-led leadership structure […]
Source: BBC News A day after Pope Francis publicly admitted for the first time that clerics had sexually abused nuns, promising to tackle the issue that was “still going on” […]