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Here’s what mattered when an Irish American Muslim and a Black American Christian with a Muslim name met on a stage in Washington, D.C.

The Netflix miniseries is a false depiction that draws on negative stereotypes, writes Matt Grow, managing director of Church ...

The first Brazilian Latter-day Saint apostle, Elder Ulisses Soares, recently compared learning English to learning to receive ...

The president of an Ohio-based Christian college is confident that one of its students who died in last week's air collision ...

The U.S. State Department’s “ One Flag Policy ” mandates that only the American flag — except for specific instances, such as ...

Jesus was crystal clear that his followers are to extend mercy and goodness without qualification, writes Darrius D'wayne ...

The sponsor of the resolution, state Rep. Nico Rios of Williston, used racist and homophobic slurs to verbally abuse two ...

Elder Kevin R. Duncan, a General Authority Seventy for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered Tuesday’s ...

Bishop Munilla recalled that 'the Christian faith proclaims that our encounter with God is a personal encounter, one on one,' ...

The second key truth is the "profound humility" of Jesus Christ, said Rives. "Despite being the sinless Son of God, He chooses to be baptized — an act that, according to the Book of Acts ...

Meanwhile, “Christ” was actually not a surname, but rather an honorific meaning “God’s anointed one.” As a poor Jewish man, the real Jesus would have not had a fancypants title ...