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A $1.2 million federal grant will modernize the historic Mason Temple in Memphis. Leaders announced the funding inside the sanctuary linked to the Civil Rights Movement. The Mason Temple upgrade aims to protect a landmark and improve visitor experience. The church stands near the former Lorraine Motel, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was
Saint Nino Mission is reshaping faith in Georgia, where Orthodox Christianity dominates. The Saint Nino Mission reflects a renewed Episcopal Church in Georgia, and it draws worshipers seeking tradition and openness. Georgia sits between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, and it embraced Christianity early. New figures still guide its story because Saint Nino, a fourth-century
LGBTQ church trauma often formed in churches that called themselves welcoming, but not affirming. Many congregations later changed policy, and they now ordain LGBTQ clergy and bless same-gender weddings. Yet healing after “welcoming” does not arrive on the night of the vote. It requires truth-telling, because silence can reassert the old hierarchy even after language
A migrant court accompaniment ministry starts with names spoken like prayers, and the list keeps growing. In El Paso, Scalabrinian Sisters Leticia Gutiérrez Valderrama and Elisete Signor respond to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation drive because fear now shadows the immigration court. The sisters remember Carlos, a man later deported to Cuba, and they built
The Holy Thursday service at ICE detention centers unfolded behind a half-open door at Broadview near Chicago. A guard escorted five immigrant detainees into view, and each wore shackles. The Rev. Paul Joseph Keller questioned the restraints, but the guard cited short staffing by a private contractor. Keller and fellow clergy met the detainees’ eyes
ACBC drops Grace Community Church from its list of approved training centers without explanation. The Sun Valley, California, megachurch still markets itself as “vetted and approved by ACBC,” so the change creates confusion. ACBC now lists 90 approved programs, but Grace no longer appears on that list. Both ACBC and Grace ignored requests for comment,
Pope Leo XIV’s Easter peace appeal rang out over St. Peter’s Square as he urged dialogue over domination. He delivered the Urbi et Orbi message as about 50,000 listened, Vatican News reported. He told those with weapons to put them down, and he pressed leaders to choose peace. He rejected any peace imposed by force,
Pastor Hank Kunneman wants a “travel the world fund” to cover private air travel. He told supporters they could give any amount, framing it as fuel for the ministry. Kunneman leads Lord of Hosts Church in Omaha and runs One Voice Ministries. He said airline chaos disrupts his work, so private flights would keep him
The Episcopal Diocese of New York has opened a new phase of racial reparations with a public roadmap. The racial reparations report outlines how it will invest nearly $1.2 million, with the funds first committed in 2019. The racial reparations report was released on March 17, and it frames the work as long-term. Bishop Matthew
George Barna is sounding an alarm about biblical worldview alignment in the United States. He says churches and leaders often fail to instill biblical beliefs. New survey data also show that most Americans lack beliefs consistent with a biblical worldview. Barna links this gap to weak discipleship, so he urges focused mentoring because change remains
A federal judge shut down a proposed Johnson Amendment settlement and dismissed the lawsuit behind it. The decision kept the IRS pastor endorsement ban in place, so churches and other nonprofits remain barred from backing candidates. The ruling landed as a surprise because the case had been positioned to reshape enforcement. It also halted a
A MAGA coalition rift has burst into public view, pitting traditionalist Catholics against evangelicals. The split in the MAGA alliance centers on Israel and threatens a wider GOP fight before the midterms. Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission fired Carrie Prejean Boller last month, a decision that sharpened the fracture in Trump’s coalition. Prejean Boller, a former
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