Posts in category Prayerful Living

Faith-based groups – many of them longtime advocates for a more welcoming immigration policy – have been scrambling to keep up with fast-paced developments in …

Mullins, S.C. (AP) – When the last mourners departed and funeral director Shawn Troy was left among the headstones, he wept alone. For five decades, …

Atlanta (AP) – In the early 1960s, firebrand preacher Malcolm X and boxing phenom Cassius Clay became close friends, a fascinating relationship that fell apart …

Baltimore (AP) – The first new Catholic school built in Baltimore in roughly 60 years opened its doors Monday to hundreds of youngsters, who entered …

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) – When the Bloomington Reformed Presbyterian Church was founded, Indiana was 5 years old, Abraham Lincoln wasn’t a teenager yet, and one …

Los Angeles (RNS) – On a recent Sunday, about 10 people sat outside the steps of the boarded-up First Baptist Church of Venice, a century-old …

CAIRO (AP) – Muslims around the world were observing Tuesday yet another major Islamic holiday in the shadow of the pandemic and amid growing concerns …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Hundreds of Haitians sought solace in prayer at Sunday church services as a political power struggle threatened to further destabilize their …

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the United States’ oldest historically Black denomination, launched its General Conference on Tuesday with delegates expected to address racial issues …

For Qassim Abdullah, this year’s Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr marked a bit of a milestone: Now fully vaccinated, the 66-year-old finally felt comfortable enough …