Religion
QARAQOSH, Iraq -- Pope Francis on Sunday urged Iraq's Christians to forgive the injustices against them by Muslim extremists and to rebuild as he visited the...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - March 8, 2021PLAINS OF UR, Iraq -- Pope Francis and Iraq's top Shiite cleric delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence Saturday, urging Muslims in the war-wear...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - March 7, 2021SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Sundays are always special at St. Philip Monumental AME church. But in October, the pews are often more packed, the sermon a bit more urgent...
by The New York Times - March 7, 2021When Pope Francis led a historic Mass at the Chaldean Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baghdad on Saturday, the pews were full of people offering prayers with extr...
by The Washington Post - March 7, 2021Pope Francis opened the first-ever papal visit to Iraq on Friday seeking to help heal a nation uniquely wounded by violent sectarianism, foreign adventurism ...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - March 6, 2021Standing in an empty church office, surrounded by glass barriers that were installed as a coronavirus safety measure, the Rev. Jesus Zamarripa of Our Lady of...
by PHILIP CHEUNG THE NEW YORK TIMES - March 6, 2021Most mortals have lost track of time as the pandemic spills into year two. But God -- assume for the purposes of this article there is one, all-knowing, all-...
by JESSICA M. GOLDSTEIN THE WASHINGTON POST - March 6, 2021When megachurch pastor J.D. Greear became the 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention, he saw all kinds of statistics headed in all kinds of direct...
by TERRY MATTINGLY - March 6, 2021ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SERVICES
by Francisca Jones - March 6, 2021After 3½ years living inside a Maplewood, Mo., church to avoid deportation, Honduran immigrant Alex Garcia finally stepped outside last month, after a promis...
by JIM SALTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - March 6, 2021Benton County
March 6, 2021The founders of our America recognized the reality of a God in heaven as they appealed to Him in our Declaration of Independence (from England) which was als...
by H.D. McCarty - March 6, 2021BAGHDAD — Pope Francis opened the first-ever papal visit to Iraq on Friday with a plea for the country to protect its centuries-old diversity, urging Muslims...
by The Associated Press - March 5, 2021When megachurch pastor J.D. Greear became the 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention, he saw all kinds of statistics headed in all kinds of direct...
March 5, 2021Conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church unveiled plans Monday to form a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church, with a doctrine that d...
by The Associated Press - March 2, 2021