Recent scandals throughout the United States show that pastoral misconduct has become far too common. However, Bob Smietana of Religion News Service writes that often, the reaction to that abuse is nearly as bad. The …
At least 50 worshippers — including many children — were killed in a southwestern Nigeria church on Pentecost Sunday. The mass killing was initiated by the gunmen by firing shots and detonating explosives in St. …
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The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, which is the Bible read and distributed by the restorationist denomination of Christianity, Jehovah’s Witnesses has been released in Mapudungun and is available in both printed …
In the first Canonisation Mass in two years, Pope Francis canonized 10 people at the Vatican including Devasahayam Pillai, the first Indian layman to be canonized. Born in a Hindu family in 1712, Devasahayam converted …
A Sunday luncheon at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in California’s Laguna Wood, that marked the return of Billy Chang, the longtime pastor of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, was disrupted by a gunman who opened …
Pop icon Madonna reached out to Pope Francis online with a request for a second chance from the leader of the Catholic Church. Nika Shakhnazarova of PageSix writes that Madonna publicly offended the Church in …
The Iglesia Apostoles y Profetas, a Pentecostal church located in San Jose, California, has confirmed the September death of Arely Naomi Proctor, 3, happened following an attempted exorcism. The child was taken to the church …
Hong Kong’s former Catholic bishop, Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, has been arrested for his support of a now-dissolved pro-democracy group, 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. Zen served as a trustee for the group, which supported participants …
Inspired by the convergence of a number of religious holidays of different faiths in April —Passover, Easter, Ramadan, Ram Navami, Vaisakhi and Ridvan — an interfaith Trolley in Chicago offered a tour of five religious …