The Amish are one of the fastest-growing religious groups in North America, according to a new census by researchers at Ohio State University.
Catholic sisters gathered here for their annual assembly on Aug. 9 intensified discussions aimed at thwarting a Vatican takeover of their group, but hanging over the meeting was an even larger existential question: Do the nuns have a future?
As the 2012 London Olympic Games winds toward its conclusion Aug. 12, so-called “street pastors” have been helping visitors make sense of an event spread over 13 venues in the British capital.
The Rev. Reggie A. Weaver, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Chicago, is the featured preacher Sept. 2 and 9 on “Day 1” with host Peter Wallace, the nationally syndicated radio program also accessible online at Day1.org.
A group of interfaith leaders Thursday (Aug. 9) exhorted Americans to do more than pray for better times. Representing seven different faith traditions, many advocated a period of public mourning after a week that saw a shooting rampage at a Sikh temple and a suspicious fire at a Missouri mosque.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) offers prayers for the Sikh community and the families affected by this senseless and brutal shooting
The United Church of Christ’s Office of Communication, Inc., has announced that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, will deliver the 30th Annual Everett C. Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture.
Twelve-year-old Jake Finkbonner leaned over and ran his hand through a pool of water from a natural spring at the National Shrine of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, in Fonda, N.Y.. With that simple gesture, on a recent weekend, the boy connected literally to the story of the 17th-century Native American woman who the Roman Catholic Church will elevate to sainthood on Oct. 21.
A broad spectrum of U.S. religious groups — Christian, Jewish and Muslim — are condemning killings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that authorities described as an act of “domestic terrorism.”
James E. Solheim, best known as the Episcopal Church’s news director in an era bookended by the election of Anglicanism’s first female bishop and the ordination of its first openly gay bishop, died Aug. 8 after several weeks’ hospitalization.