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Father Tomaž Majcen, a Conventual Franciscan, is the only Catholic parish priest in Greenland, working alongside two fellow ...

Rabbi Andrue Kahn heads the historically anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism and started his rabbinic career at ...

COMMENTARY: In this second part of Lent, we shift our focus. We are now called to unite ourselves to the Lord Jesus and ...

My friend’s church has initiated a novel Lenten practice, which is to write a letter every day in Lent and mail it: 40 letters in 40 days. The idea is to write something positive to someone ...

Members of the choir at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic church that's the spiritual center of the Haitian diaspora, sing during a Lent revival Mass, March 29, 2025 in Miami. MIAMI — Packed pews ...

MIAMI — Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d’Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the ...

GERHARD RICHTER, now (at 93) the grand old man of German art, put the problem succinctly in 1964: “Art is not a substitute religion. . . But the Church is no longer adequate as a means of offering ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter, the ...

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., made history this year: Thanks to a lawsuit, the church controls the trademark to the far-right group known as the Proud Boys.