May 3, 2018, 9:49am Churches & Religion
President Donald Trump is marking the National Day of Prayer with faith leaders in the White House Rose Garden amid a firestorm over payments to a porn actress. Read story
April 28, 2018, 6:05am Churches & Religion
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., dismissed the Rev. Patrick J. Conroy this month as chaplain of the chamber, an unusual decision that has left some of the Jesuit priest’s friends questioning the move. Read story
April 28, 2018, 6:02am Churches & Religion
An Australian nun whose missionary visa in the Philippines was revoked after the president complained about her joining opposition rallies said Thursday that social advocacy and human rights are part of church teachings. Read story
April 28, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion
A Mormon church member supervising young missionaries in Puerto Rico was removed from the post and kicked out of the religion after female missionaries reported behavior that was “immoral and sinful,” the church announced Thursday. Read story
April 23, 2018, 6:31am Churches & Religion
The Rev. Daniel Fusco sat on a couch in Crossroads Community Church’s prayer room facing two cameras, a microphone clipped to his shirt. He was filming his popular #2MinuteMessage videos where he talks about life through the lens of Jesus and the Bible. Read story
April 21, 2018, 6:04am Churches & Religion
The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao paid no more than three dollars for the trip that would end up costing him his freedom. Read story
April 14, 2018, 6:01am Churches & Religion
Louis Vener was just 9 years old when his father handed him a paint-roller and encouraged him to pitch in on a community synagogue-building project in 1950s Chula Vista. Read story
April 14, 2018, 6:01am Churches & Religion
The history of the Congregational Church is the history of Colonial New England. Read story
April 5, 2018, 9:40am Churches & Religion
A woman who says a former Mormon missionary leader raped her in the 1980s and that the church failed to take her allegations seriously has filed a lawsuit, saying Thursday she wants the church to change the way it handles sexual abuse reports. Read story
April 1, 2018, 2:23pm Churches & Religion
On Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, “beginning with the beloved and long-suffering land of Syria” and extending to Israel, where 15 Palestinians were killed on the Israeli-Gaza border two days before Easter Sunday. Read story