Metal detectors at Jerusalem Temple Mount cause clashes
Thousands of Muslims prayed in alleys and streets rather than inside Al-Aqsa Mosque. Then police used force against demonstrators.
Thousands of Muslims prayed in alleys and streets rather than inside Al-Aqsa Mosque. Then police used force against demonstrators.
Patriarch Antonios, who is 90 and has diabetes, has been denied medical care.
Lawrence Ware's tipping point was a recent debate over a resolution to disavow white supremacy.
Asking the question gives people space to discern the answer.
Christians made up the majority of refugees admitted to the U.S. in the first five full months of the Trump administration.
It’s not that things are changing for our church. They’ve already changed.
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(RNS) When David McCoy founded the car-care ministry at McEachern Memorial United Methodist Church 15 years ago, he knew he was filling a need in his community. What he didn’t know was how big a need that was.
Car-care ministries like McCoy’s, where church members repair cars for those in need, transcend state borders and religious groups. But, McCoy said, there still aren’t enough of them. After news outlets recently profiled his church’s work in Powder Springs, Georgia, he saw calls jump from about 25 per month to over 300.
We receive a gift to carry and pour out to others. We are carved into channels through which God flows love.
Walk around the Religion in Early America exhibit and a broad picture of faith in the colonial era emerges: there’s a Bible translated into the language of the Wampanoag people, the Torah scroll from the first synagogue in North America, and a text written by a slave who wanted to pass on his Muslim heritage.
Teresa Hord Owens, a descendant of one of Indiana’s oldest free black settlements, is general minister and president.