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Miguel Torneire Taking His Missionary Work A Step Further For Helping The People
Humans are taught to help others from a very young age. Regardless of their beliefs, age, race, or any other category, humans are taught to help others since it is a basic code of conduct. Helping others is not just part of good manners; humans are prompted to help...
From Ashes to Beauty – Robert Sherriff
YES, it’s true, life is not always sunshine and rainbows. It’s not always easy, and sometimes it’s harsh and unfair. One might wonder, if there is a God, where is he? Why didn’t he stop that difficulty from happening? But the truth is, even if we don’t see or feel it,...
Pastor Chris Draws Another Successful Healing School To A Close
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is one of the world's most famous ministers, but each year he takes time out of his busy schedule to give back through the work of The Healing School. In August 2018, the second session of this year's school drew to a close and proved to be one...
Pastor Chris And The Healing School Bringing Hope And Salvation To The People
The August Healing School Session of 2018 commenced in Lagos, Nigeria. It was a day of salvation, restoration and hope that many people were looking forward to. Thousands of people traveled from numerous continents across the globe to be a part of the supernatural...
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Tree of Life rabbi and Mother Emanuel pastor: 7 years of a friendship forged in tragedy
NEW YORK (RNS) — When the Rev. Eric Manning arrived in New York for a recent speaking engagement, a friendly face was waiting for him. As he walked off the plane, there was his friend, Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers. “Somebody might say, ‘it’s not a big deal,” said...
British ex-soldier acquitted of murder in 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre
LONDON (AP) — A former British paratrooper was found not guilty Thursday on murder charges relating to the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland that saw 13 people killed in a flurry of bullets. Judge Patrick Lynch ruled at Belfast Crown Court that...
Girl shot in Minneapolis church returns home from the hospital
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head during a deadly attack at a Minneapolis Catholic church in August was released from the hospital Thursday and greeted with cheers as the police chief paraded her around town in a stretch limousine,...
Roadside bombing kills 3 police officers in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful roadside bomb struck a police vehicle Friday in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s northwest near the Afghan border, killing a city police chief and two junior officers, officials said. The bombing took...
Rubio tours US-led center in Israel overseeing the ceasefire in Gaza
KIRYAT GAT, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday toured a U.S.-led center in Israel overseeing the Gaza ceasefire, as the Trump administration worked to set up an international security force in the territory and shore up the tenuous truce...
American cardinal celebrates old Latin Mass in St. Peter’s in a sign of change
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, thrilling traditionalist Catholics who had felt abandoned after Pope Francis greatly restricted the...
Romanians flock to a new cathedral that is the world’s largest Orthodox church
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of pilgrims turned out Sunday in Romania’s capital for the consecration of religious paintings inside the world’s largest Christian Orthodox church that was being opened after 15 years of construction. Worshippers and officials...
‘The Lost Mary’ breaks from centuries of mythmaking around the Virgin Mary
(RNS) — She’s the subject of the most-recited prayer in the world, but also, Mary might be one of the least-known women in history, argues biblical scholar James D. Tabor in his latest book, “The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus.” Christians typically...
Samaritan’s Purse to play a larger role in Gaza aid distribution
(RNS) — The Rev. Franklin Graham confirmed Saturday (Oct. 25) that Samaritan’s Purse, the international humanitarian relief organization he heads, is ramping up its role in delivering aid to Gaza as the embattled Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is being shut down. “I...
At Bay Area protest, a second pastor is shot by federal agents with a pepper round
OAKLAND, Calif. (RNS) — For the second time in six weeks, a pastor was struck in the head with a pepper round fired by a U.S. immigration agent as faith leaders protested the Trump administration’s deportation efforts. The pastor, the Rev. Jorge Bautista, was one of...
Pope Leo’s first 6 months: Unity, migrants, AI and a US style without the fireworks
NEW YORK (RNS) — Almost six months into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV is forging his own path in shaping the Catholic Church’s tone and priorities, Vatican experts said in a panel discussion on Wednesday (Oct. 22). Speaking at Religion News Service’s symposium “God,...
New Age spiritual group Eckankar will soon have its first new leader in 44 years
(RNS) — In 1970s New England, then-25-year-old Sharon Kunin, a pastor’s daughter, was full of out-of-the-box questions her Presbyterian upbringing didn’t quite answer — a typical countercultural shift seen in her generation. “I had my own little truth detector,”...