Posts in category Prayerful Living

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A granite monument of the Ten Commandments planned near Arkansas’ Capitol will weigh 6,000 pounds and …

Associated Press   LEAD, S.D. (AP) – A church in Lead has installed a mailbox where people can drop in requests for prayers. The Black …

Associated Press   VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official says the number of nuns who dedicate their lives to prayer and contemplating God is dwindling, …

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press   JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A federal judge has ruled in favor of a Missouri lawmaker who cited …

Associated Press   SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – The Western district of the Methodist church has elected an openly gay bishop despite the denomination’s ban on same-sex …

Associated Press   CLIFTON, N.J. – An aspiring nun who was told she couldn’t enter a convent until her student loan debt was paid off …

By MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press   LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – Africa’s largest city is closing dozens of mosques, churches and nightclubs in a bid to …

By RISHABH R. JAIN and MANISH MEHTA Associated Press MUMBAI, India (AP)— Just hours after Shagufta Sayyd was married, her new husband told her he …

PHOTO COURTESY OF WUNC.ORG DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – Escorted into a secure parking lot one at a time, dozens of Durham County inmates were fully …

PHOTO COURTESY OF JAPANTIMES.CO.JP CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP)— Some of the hundreds of prayer quilts donated to Mother Emanuel AME Church after last year’s church shootings …