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I was a poet long before I wanted to be a preacher, but when I entered the ministry I thought poetry was a distraction, something to be set aside for serious pulpit work. What I didn't realize was that good preaching requires poetic vision,…

A Catholic Priest from Imo State, Reverend Father Bonaventure Ozoigbo, alongside other clerics, has described female genital mutilation (FGM) as a violation of fundamental tenets of Christianity. The Priest in Charge of Holy Rosary…

Marjorie Taylor Green misunderstands Christianity in her hostility to immigrants.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)By Leonard…

Robert Alexander Cooper Sr., 89, of Vine Grove, died Thursday, April 28, 2022.Bob was a founding member of…

Hundreds of Filipino Catholics followed a replica of the Jubilee Cross, along with statues of Santo Nino of Cebu and Our Lady of Manaoag, as they traveled to parishes in the Archdiocese of Newark for the celebration Year of the…

Friday, April 29, 2022 IC photo/Marie Mischel Picture 1 of 3 Among the traditional dances at the Sinulog festival held April 24 at St. Olaf Parish was one in honor of Santo Nio, an image of the Christ Child that…

Newark, NJ – The Archdiocese of Newark's celebration of the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines will conclude with a cultural procession and joyous mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark on…

Further evidence that American Christianity continues to sabotage itself emerged in the latest Pew Research Center survey of the religious composition of the American population. Further…

JERUSALEM, April 23 (Reuters) - A few steps from Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, a small opening leads to an underground cistern where clerics have found the perfect spot to practice chanting ahead of the holiest day of the…

The televangelist's organ restored A pipe organ made famous by Robert H. Schuller power hour television program was restored for 3 million dollars. "Hazel," as the organ is called, was taken apart and sent to Italy for repairs in 2013.…

This country is sort of about Catholicism, Islam and Evangelical Christianity. A new poll reveals that Canadians consider several religions to be more harmful than beneficial to society. An Angus Reid poll began Monday and highlights the…

Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit priest who founded the Sadhana Institute of Pastoral Counseling in Pune. After working as a “retreat master and spiritual director” for Christian retreats, he published his book: Sadhana - A path to God with…

Holy Week, which begins with Palm Sunday, is the week of preparation for redemption through the suffering, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Today is Good Friday. It is the second and saddest…

Africa and Christianity Christianity is 2000 years old. All faith began when Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, gave his life as a ransom for the salvation of mankind. It was for the restoration of the relationship between…

Until the end of the 19th century, less than 0.1% of the Korean population was Christian. Today, a little over a century later, 28% of South Koreans are Christians. South Korea currently sends more missionaries…

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, Pope Francis has extended until the end of this year the possibility for Catholics to obtain a plenary…

More than 1,700 people participated in the San Gabriel Arcángel Mission's pilgrimage to Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles.…

Catholic staff in Central Asia encourage young people to be more active in parish activities and help plan the future of nascent Church communities in the Muslim-majority region. “In recent months we have carried out a total…

ABeing someone who grew up in Silicon Valley, I sometimes forget how special this place is. There are, for example, certain cafés and brunch restaurants where you can hear entrepreneurs talking to venture capitalists any day of the week.…

Pope Francis has apologized for the role of the Catholic Church in the mistreatment of Indigenous people in…

Friday 01 April 2022 By Laura Vallejo Intermountain Catholic BOUNTIFUL – To celebrate the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines, which was March 17, Filipinos in the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake…

Christian practice is drastically declining in the Western world, largely due to the impact of science on Western consciousness. The conflict between the two disciplines has reached the stage where…

VOICE In early 2019, Bill and Melinda Gates released a list of facts that had surprised them the previous year. Number four on their list: "Data can be sexist."They explained:There are huge gaps in global data on women and…

Women's social leadership Clergymen of the Islamic and Christian religions rejected the idea that both religions forbid women from holding leadership positions and that these prejudices against women and girls!-->!-->…

It's hard to believe that it's been two decades since historian Philip Jenkins published his groundbreaking essay "The Next Christianity" in The Atlantic Monthly.It contained key material from the first of three books Jenkins published…

St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17 as it is the day historians believe he died.Vacations weren't always the way we see them today. Once upon a time there was a solemn time in Ireland when bars remained closed.Although attributed…

Russia faces charges of war crimes amid massacres of innocent civilians and the shelling of homes, hospitals, schools and infrastructure, with the resulting suffering. The contours of global Christianity could be blurred, as a result of all…

The Incarnation Church in Glendale, California is set to hold a closing ceremony to celebrate 500 years of Filipino Christianity. Photo courtesy of Josefina Solomonson On Sunday, March 27, Incarnation Church will celebrate the…

Created: March 12, 2022 07:31 Heydon Trust Chapel in Sandys (Photograph provided)This month, we are focusing our faith article on Christianity.It's almost as if this particular religious group needs no!-->…

Lent is a time of preparation in which Christians prepare to celebrate the momentous events of Christ's death, resurrection and ascension. Some use this season as an opportunity to draw closer to God through confession, fasting, and…

You've probably read the articles about foreign language words that don't have an immediate equivalent in English. As a German, I immediately think of schadenfreude, that seemingly untranslatable term for, well, schadenfreude — the guilty…

Hungarians will go to the polls on April 3 to decide who will represent them in parliament for the next 4 years. Every week leading up to the election, in our Road to Kossuth Square podcast, we discuss and analyze the issues…

Society The Mardi Gras carnival has roots in Christianity Friday 04 March 2022 A participant performs and Indian dances during Sydney's annual Mardi Gras Night Parade. FILE PHOTO | NMG By DOUGLAS KIEREINIMore from…

With the coming of Christ, we began to experience God's healing touch, the medicine of divine mercy.…

I was at a small party in a friend's garden and was seated at the same table as a Roman Catholic priest in his cassock. A bottle of red wine was presented to our table and he took a glass of wine as we discussed various topics. I noticed…

This article was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. Once, when I was a youth pastor, a woman begged me to let her rebellious son go to youth camp even though he missed the registration deadline. "I just want him to be…

Reading time: 4 minutesBritish historian Christopher Dawson When distinguishing between his contemporary culture and those that are foreign and past, the English scholar and Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argues that the former is…

At the center of contemporary Christianity is the self. We have enough evidence to show that this is the case. In the Philippines, fraternities and congregations echo the same mantra: “I am blessed”, “I am favored”, “I am…

It is not every day that a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, and a strategic Jesuit ally of the pope,…

A region of six million inhabitants, Tigray, a secessionist state in northern Ethiopia, has been ravaged since November 2020 by a bloody civil war. If the humanitarian disaster is denounced by various NGOs, they speak less of the…

As investigations into sexual abuse and abuse of church power are ongoing in the Anglican Church of the Upper Midwest Diocese in North America, at least five people who say they have suffered sexual or spiritual abuse in the diocese say…

This article was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. As Vladimir Putin's Russia threatens the existence of a free Ukraine, it would be easy for American evangelicals to conclude that this is a more distant foreign…

The Bishop of the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese of the Catholic Church in the Upper East Region, the Most Reverend Father Alfred Agyenta, posited that politics and Christianity are not incompatible and that the belief of some members…

SSome stories serve as parables of the period in which they are written. Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet portray the religious tensions of the Reformation in England without ever mentioning the words Protestant Where Catholic. Frankenstein…

Pexels Doesn't it always happen like this? You think you've got it all figured out in this wild ride of a lifetime, then another curve ball comes your way and you realize, "Oh woo-wee-woo, I was way off"? The good old story of repentance…

The End of Christianity (The End of Christianity) By Chantal Delsol. STAG. 2021. 171 pages. In French. Is Christianity Dead? Is it dying? Chantal Delsol, French philosopher, novelist and columnist for Le Figarotries to…

I once had the fascinating experience of visiting some of England's cathedrals with my children. While they were too young to fully appreciate the history and images carved in stone, they could "feel" the atmosphere of a cathedral. My…

Science is rational and Christianity is not; such is the claim of many vehement atheists. Many go further and say that Christianity is actively at war with science, suppressing its truth. In reality, this claim is just one of the myths…

Last month, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt lost one of its most recognized and charismatic priests. Abouna ("Father") Makary Younan (1934-2022), a well-known figure in Arab Christian satellite television, died on January 11 of…

We cannot cook up holiness on our own, decide what it looks like without examples, or try to become holy without others. The goal is to be remade in the image of God, and we do this by imitating models of holiness. When we read holiness…

Most people are familiar with the 1951 battle between India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Rajendra Prasad over his decision to witness the installation of Hindu idols in the newly!-->…

In December, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued an "emergency rule" blocking the issuance and renewal of state licenses for organizations that serve unaccompanied migrant children, including many faith-based organizations. Recently,…

Melvin Russell "Russ" Blair, 80, died Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Funeral services are at 1 p.m. Feb. 5 at First…

Modern Israeli leaders are unequivocal about the importance of Jerusalem to the State of Israel. “It has been proven beyond doubt that Jerusalem is the main artery of our national consciousness,” former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

Chitradurga, (Karnataka), January 25 (IANS): A man has filed a complaint against his father-in-law and other relatives for forcing him to convert to Christianity at Hosadurga police station in Chitradurga district, Karnataka, police said on…

A Catholic institute in Beijing, the Chinese capital, marked 20 years of academic research on Christianity and culture and the promotion of evangelization in China and beyond.The Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture of the…

Science is rational and Christianity is not; such is the claim of many vehement atheists. Many go further and say that Christianity is actively at war with science, suppressing its truth. In reality, this claim is just one of the myths…

1. Bono explains why Jesus died "I like the idea of ​​the sacrificial Lamb...The purpose of Christ's death is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we have extinguished shall not come back to us, and our sinful nature…

Aglow Community LighthouseMonthly "fireside chats" to share and listen. The January chat was canceled due…

After Kottayam Sessions Court acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal of all charges in the rape case of a Kerala nun, his lawyer claimed that the victim was trying to falsely accuse the Bishop, due to "the influence of certain elements".…

In recent decades, American evangelism has moved away from the labels, symbols, and religious buildings that defined the church. Many newer churches do not contain stained glass windows, crosses, or traditional sanctuary configurations.…

MAIZEVILLE - The manifestation of God made Man in Jesus Christ was celebrated with an Eastern rite in…

Much of the worldwide body of Christ experiences January 6 as Epiphany, the last day of Christmas in the church calendar and an occasion to remember the first recognition by the Magi of Jesus as God. In the Spanish-speaking world, this…

Tech investors have discovered religion, or at least religious apps. In 2021, venture capitalists invested more than $175 million in a handful of software companies developing spirituality tools for smartphones, betting big that tech…

Saint Francis de Sales noted: “If you are poor, you are in good company. Our Dear Lord, Our Lady, the Apostles, countless saints, men and women, were poor, and though they might have!-->!-->!-->…

TEHRAN (IQNA) - A Lebanese bishop points out the similarities between Islam and Christianity, citing humanity as one of them. Bishop Matthias Charles Georges Mrad made the remarks in an exclusive interview with the International…

ROME (AP) - The Catholic Church and the city of Ferrara in northern Italy made peace with Antonio Vivaldi on…

Prisoners pray inside an evangelical cell block at the penal unit in Pinero, Santa Fe province, Argentina on Thursday, November 4, 2021. Access to evangelical cell blocks is controlled by both prison authorities and cell block leaders who…

“The truth of the religion of Jesus Christ is no different from the truth of the religion of Islam, and the Quran mentions excellent attributes for Saint Mary and Jesus Christ,” the Iranian president said at the meeting. 'a meeting with the…

For Bethlehem chef Fadi Kattan, the Christmas holiday season is marked by two culinary traditions: the first burbara dish, a wheat sausage commemorating the flight of the 3rd century martyr Saint Barbara, and the second a fruit cake, a A…

TEHRAN — Noting that the Abrahamic prophets were great reformers of their time, a Christian religion philosophy professor says Christianity and Islam are trying to secularize the world towards a religious outlook. "We have so much in…

Like many, my best memories of Christmas come from my childhood. Endless hot summers, the river, the food and the family. And faith.I come from a large Aboriginal family. There is no Christmas like a black Christmas. There was never…

And here, I think, the analogy with the new progressivism particularly fails. The so-called “awakening” is particularly powerful among elites, yes, but the change in attitude towards, say, racism is broader than that; if a similar number…

lifestyle, the disappearance, janine di giovanni, bloomsburyThe secondary title of this book is "The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East". It consists of a series of essays on Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Egypt and Syria.…

The average American couple marries, according to the U.S. census around the age of 30. Many young adults believe that forming unions closer to this age reduces their risk of divorce and, indeed, there is to research consistent with this…

Gothic fiction author Anne Rice, famous for her novel "Interview with the Vampire", died of a stroke at the age of 80 on Saturday, December 11. Rice had a complicated, intermittent relationship with Christianity before publicly leaving…

Having survived COVID-19, Catholic…

Reading time: 3 minutesKeneally said discussions over the religious discrimination bill have played an important role in raising the awareness of the work's increasingly vigorous to religious communities, of which she is a key envoy.…

There is a famous philosophical thought experiment, attributed to Robert Nozick, which asks the question of the "experimenting machine". Imagine being offered the possibility of being permanently placed in a sensory deprivation reservoir,…

Aglow Community LighthouseMonthly “fireside chats” to share and listen to. December 11 edition from 10 a.m.…