Faith
NEW DELHI -- India's government on Friday withdrew its appeal to citizens to mark Valentine's Day next week not as a celebration of romance but as "Cow Hug Day…
February 10, 2023ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE -- Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister together denounced the criminalization of homosexualit…
by Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press February 5, 2023JUBA, South Sudan -- Pope Francis warned Saturday that South Sudan's future depends on how it treats its women, as he highlighted their horrific plight in a co…
by NICOLE WINFIELD, DENG MACHOL and TRISHA THOMAS, Associated Press February 4, 2023HILDALE, Utah -- The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that frigid night in remote Utah, he was hoping for a life-changing…
February 3, 2023JERUSALEM -- Israeli police on Thursday arrested an American tourist after he allegedly knocked down and broke a statue of Jesus in a church in Jerusalem's Old…
by The Associated Press February 2, 2023KILDARE, Ireland -- St. Patrick has long received the attention and the big parades, but another patron saint of Ireland is making a 21st century comeback.
by Peter Smith, The Associated Press February 1, 2023TEXARKANA, Texas -- From left, Lowell A. Davis, executive director of the St. Basil School of Gregorian Chant in Houston, and Marc-André Bougie, music director…
by Karl Richter January 27, 2023VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as "unjust," saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catho…
by Nicole Winfield, Associated Press January 25, 2023NEW YORK -- Administrators of a trust fund established to preserve historic Black churches in the United States on Friday revealed a list of houses of worship …
by Aaron Morrison, AP National Writer January 20, 2023GOMA, Congo -- A suspected extremist attack at a church in eastern Congo killed at least 10 people and wounded more than three dozen, according to the country'…
by Justin Kabumba and Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro, THe Associated Press January 15, 2023LODZ, Poland -- The discovery in central Poland of hundreds of objects that were most likely hidden by their Jewish owners during World War II provided a rare …
by The Associated Press January 14, 2023OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma prison officials said Wednesday that they will allow an anti-death penalty minister with a history of protest-related arrests inside …
January 11, 2023EL PASO, Texas -- With a cheerful "soy Marcos" -- "I'm Mark," in Spanish -- Bishop Mark Seitz introduced himself to migrants eating soup in the shelter on the …
January 7, 2023KYIV, Ukraine -- Packing a cathedral for Orthodox Christmas, hundreds of worshippers heard the service in that church in the Ukrainian language for the first t…
January 7, 2023A man is accused of entering an Arkansas church, smashing a hammer through the center of its altar and stealing two boxes containing 1,500-year-old relics.
January 7, 2023