In his Angelus message on the Christian feast of All Saints, the Pope said to the large crowd assembled in the sunny Saint Peter’s Square: “we experience in a particularly vivid way the reality of the communion of saints, our extended family, made up of all members of the Church, both those who are still pilgrims on earth, and those—immensely more—who have already departed for heaven.”
A German evangelical priest has offered his parish church up to become migrant housing, but will be stripping out most of the fittings to ensure their comfort – including all symbols of Christianity. Father Joachim Deterding, parish priest of the evangelical Königshardt-Schmachtendorf
The football coach of Bremerton High School in Washington State, Joe Kennedy, who was recently suspended for leading prayers after games and, despite being asked to stop, continued to lead them, spoke out on Saturday’s “America’s News HQ” on Fox News Channel. Kennedy,
On Oct. 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided the case of what the court called “self-described Christian evangelists preaching hate and denigration to a crowd of Muslims, some of whom responded with threats of violence.”
A growing trend among Christian families is dressing children as saints for Halloween, rather than as ghouls or witches, to take back the celebration of the “Hallowed Eve” of the Feast of all Saints.
In his homily Friday morning, Pope Francis said that when God forgives us, He knows full well that we are guilty, not like a judge who acquits a criminal for lack of evidence; yet He pardons us anyway.
The point of this apologist film is that we are all the same. But we aren’t. The difference between the free world and Afghanistan isn’t between Bill Murray’s hedonism and the Taliban’s Sharia stringency. The difference is between light and darkness, freedom and submission, good and evil.
One of the most expensive films in Iranian cinema history, Muhammad: The Messenger of God, has traveled down a long and controversial road on its way to consideration for a foreign-language Oscar in the upcoming Academy Awards.
Evolutionary biologist and celebrated God-slayer Richard Dawkins is expressing his bewilderment at how America can simultaneously be the world leader in the natural sciences while also a strikingly religious nation.
Jenna Jameson and her fiancé will be the subjects of a new reality television series that will document the former porn superstar’s conversion to Judaism.
“Does God exist?” is, perhaps, humanity’s oldest philosophical question.
An 8-year-old girl in Illinois is lifting the spirits of police offers all over the U.S. with packages of crosses. The latest package landed with the Chula Vista Police Department in California.
According to a report from ClickOrlando, a controversy in Lake County, FL is brewing around one man’s request for a satanic prayer before a recent county commission meeting. Chaz Stevens is calling the denial of his satanic prayer “discriminatory.” An email from
On September 29, Catholics celebrate the feast of the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. Saint Michael, whose name in Hebrew means “Who is like God?”, is depicted in the Bible as the commander of the heavenly host and the victor over Satan, who appears as a dragon. He is often shown in sacred art as standing over the devil, sword in hand, with one foot on the devil’s head.
Joe Kennedy, who coaches football at Bremerton High School in Washington State, has been suspended for offering a personal prayer after a Friday night football game.
The highest administrative court in Italy has upheld the government position on gay marriage, ensuring the country is the last major western European nation to not recognise the redefinition. Although gay marriage and same sex civil unions are illegal in Italy,
Morgan Freeman, 78, in Jerusalem shooting “The Story of God,” a National Geographic and Highlight Films documentary exploring faith and theology, has decided he wants to find answers about God, but refused to take a side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Using an erotic, pornographic tone, Hollywood leading lady Scarlett Johansson reads verses from the Holy Bible on a new comedy album, in order to mock “misogynistic” quotes within the Book of Deuteronomy.
A 67-year-old Roman Catholic nun was excommunicated and ousted from her religious order last week after revealing that she had been secretly ordained a priest earlier this year and has since been presiding over Catholic rituals.
Ben Carson has surged into a lead in Iowa and is climbing nationally thanks to his appeal to evangelicals. But could his own beliefs as a Seventh-day Adventist make him anathema to many of those same voters?
An anti-sex trafficking advocate who worked for an Austin, Texas, organization aimed at helping victims of human trafficking was arrested in Austin, Texas, during a week-long prostitution sting. Austin cops arrested him during an operation that landed 41 people in the Travis County jail.
In an address to an interreligious audience Wednesday, Pope Francis paid tribute to the Jewish people, noting that in Jewish-Christian relations, “indifference and opposition have turned into cooperation and goodwill.”
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” MSNBC analyst and Mother Jones DC editor David Corn called into question 2016 Republican presidential nomination contender Ben Carson for his faith, noting that he is a Seventh Day Adventist and said that particular denomination of Christianity
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is investigating what it calls a “global crisis” of religious freedom, and the resulting challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy.
The Global Network of Rainbow Catholics is out with a response to the recently concluded Vatican synod on marriage and the family, noting its optimism that “a new era for inclusive pastoral care of LGBT people is going to start after the synod.”
