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Catholicism
Speaking at a university campus and later a seaside town during a five-day trip to participate in a youth gathering in Portugal, Pope Francis urged students…
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Three quarters of a century after President Harry Truman signed an executive order aimed at ensuring that all members of the military are treated equally regardless…
Catholicism
As the countdown commences for the inaugural papal visit to Mongolia in early September, the highest-ranking Vatican official in the Asian nation has characterized the occasion…
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The Rev. Steve Pieters, an HIV/AIDS-positive activist, made a significant impact in 1985 when he participated in an interview with televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Their remarkable…
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Religious liberty in Russia and in the occupied regions of Ukraine have been steadily and systematically eroded since the Kremlin’s invasion in 2022, reaching a condition…
Catholicism
A Hong Kong bishop whom Pope Francis personally selected to be included in the newest group of cardinals within the Catholic Church has expressed his desire…
Christianity
Jonathan Roumie, the actor who plays Jesus in The Chosen, the popular television series billed as the largest crowd-funded media project in history, has been busy making public appearances. …
Buddhism
He is the youngest political prisoner in modern history. Kidnapped nearly three decades ago at age six, he has not been seen since. What was it…
Catholicism
In a potential turning point for healthcare services in Catholic hospitals, Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. voted June 16 to establish formal regulations banning their…
Faith in Recovery
The percentage of religious Americans affirming the existence of only two gender identities rose from about 59 percent in 2021 to nearly 65 percent this year,…
Religion News
Embodied as two male and two female figures on a large screen above the altar, an artificial intelligence chatbot recently urged congregants in a Lutheran church…
Religion News
Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams (Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret.) recently spoke at the opening of an exhibit featured at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.,…