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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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In post-Assad Syria’s chaos, Alawite women face sexual violence
LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — The woman, a member of Syria‘s Alawite religious minority, was walking home on a sunny July day in her town on the Mediterranean coast when three gunmen stopped her and pulled her into their van. It was the start of a week of torment. They drove...
Faith leaders embrace sound baths to connect with spiritual seekers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — With eyes closed and a small mallet in hand, the Rev. Kyohei Mikawa gently struck the bronze Himalayan singing bowl resting in his palm and bathed the Buddhist sanctuary in a resonant hum. Mikawa spent the next 45 minutes skimming bowls, playing a...
With mantras and a tricycle, Buddhist nun supports Denver’s unhoused
DENVER (RNS) — On a cool morning in Denver, a 70-year-old Buddhist nun pedaled their electric tricycle beneath highway overpasses and along cracked bike paths, slowing as they approached tents tucked against concrete embankments or someone sleeping under a bridge. The...
Mosque cafes brew community for younger, less religious generations of Muslims
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (RNS) — As Manahil Khan stood at the balloon-decorated entrance of Salsabeel Cafe, she took in the stream of students and elders sipping coffee drinks in what once was the prayer hall she’d run around in as a child. The cafe’s opening at the...
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl shows Asian American Jews they can lead in Jewish spaces
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) – A few years ago, Grace Elizabeth Dy, who then worked for the University of Washington’s Jewish studies center, was attending a conference in Jerusalem for Jewish lay leaders when several attendees began questioning Dy’s Jewishness. They said Dy,...
Pope criticizes US bid to ‘break apart’ US-Europe alliance, insists on Europe role in Ukraine peace
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV insisted Tuesday that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal and criticized what he said was the Trump administration’s effort to “break apart” the long-standing U.S.-European alliance. Leo spoke to reporters after meeting with...
Florida’s CAIR vows lawsuit against DeSantis over ‘foreign terrorist’ label
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A day after Gov. Ron DeSantis designated a leading Muslim civil rights organization as a “foreign terrorist organization,” leaders of the group’s Florida chapter on Tuesday promised a lawsuit and said the state had no legal basis for such a...
Indigenous artifacts returned by the Vatican are now at a Canadian museum
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A selection of Inuit artifacts returned by the Vatican is now at the Canadian Museum of History, after First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders for years called for the repatriation of Indigenous items. Pope Leo XIV gave the artifacts — including...
Christ Church at 50: How Doug Wilson pushed Christian nationalism to the center
MOSCOW, Idaho (RNS) — In 1977, Doug Wilson stepped behind the pulpit of a small Pullman, Washington, church for the first time. The 24-year-old Navy veteran, now armed with a guitar, had been leading worship at the 2-year-old congregation when the church’s lead...
At cathedral, governors of different parties, faiths urge end to political violence
WASHINGTON (RNS) — When conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed at a campus event in Utah in September, the first call Gov. Spencer Cox received was from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. That gesture to a Republican governor from a Democrat whose governor’s...
Lobster Jesus: Sacrilege or the most New England Nativity ever?
(RNS) — Drive down the Mass Pike, on Route 128 around Boston or over the Bourne Bridge toward Cape Cod, and you’re likely to see billboards touting the ultimate New England Christmas tradition. The Lobster Nativity set. Even if you don’t buy one, the billboards will...
Massive menorah installed in New York City ahead of Hanukkah
NEW YORK (RNS) — The Chabad-Lubavitch movement of New York installed a 36-foot menorah on Wednesday (Dec. 10) at Grand Army Plaza near Central Park. The menorah, which the Chabad chapter believes is the world’s largest, is among 15,000 public menorahs to be installed...