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“During its investigation, the Archdiocese was unable to confirm a precise amount of church funds that were misused but, as ...
If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...
The Orthodox Christian tradition is strong in the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska. It recently welcomed clergy and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint.
Olga Michael, a Yup'ik woman from a remote Alaska Native village, has been declared the first female Orthodox saint from North America, honoured for her compassion, humility, and lifelong service to ...
The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in ...
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia, started ...
“The church in America is at a crossroads,” said Derek Dunn, who worked at Gateway for six years, pastored its biggest campus in Southlake and has since left Gateway and founded a new church.
Now, the Orthodox Church in America and three other branches of Orthodox churches are filing a separate lawsuit over the law, saying it violates their First Amendment rights. They are represented by a ...
Sacramento lost 40% of state funding for homelessness programs. Can churches and faith-based organizations step in as critical partners?
“That’s rank religious discrimination.” The Orthodox Church of America said in the press release that “Every state, including Washington, honors the clergy-penitent privilege.” ...
When the churches of New-England assembled in a General Synod at Cambridge, in 1648, they declared their assent, "for the subsistence thereof," to the Westminster Confession of Faith.