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Given President Donald Trump’s push for “mass deportation” of those he calls “illegal immigrants,” questions surrounding the ...

It was a sweet surprise; Bishop David Ogudu, the leader (please, he said he is not the founder; that that honour belongs to Jesus the Christ, who called him as He founded and owns the church) of ...

In the churches around Portsmouth, we’ve been developing something called ‘Anna Chaplaincy’, which is about offering ...

The Munnses are certainly not alone. The 10th edition of the annual American Family Survey, released Thursday in Washington, ...

Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound ...

According to the Bible, this happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before his crucifixion ... but Islamic places of worship. The Dome of the Rock is believed to be the ...

Jane Macdougall is a freelance writer and former National Post columnist who lives in Vancouver. She writes The Bookless Club ...

And experts believe its destruction may have featured in the Bible, which describes how Hezekiah – one of Jesus' ancestors – smashed idolatrous places of worship. This was one such place ...

Brother Elder Amado Jimenez-Diaz enters the front of the room of the church. Blue and white tiles and lavender walls blush ...

There is something about the mother-child bond that holds even after death. This fact makes it easier to consider all the ...

Easter is the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead on the third day after his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary. Due to the COVID-19 ...