Churches & Religion

Anti-Defamation League, Jewish centers get more threats

March 7, 2017, 10:10am Churches & Religion

The Anti-Defamation League and several Jewish community centers across the country received a new round of bomb threats Tuesday, adding to the scores they have been plagued with since January. Read story

Dianne Archer, 71, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., left, Michele Whitlock, 50, of Big Fork, Mont., center, and Char Isham, 60, of Mattawan, Mich., volunteer in the postage-stamp ministry at Wycliffe Associates in southeast Orange County, Fla.

Ancient art of Bible translation reshaped by tech

March 4, 2017, 6:00am Churches & Religion

For most of its 50 years, Florida’s Wycliffe Associates built offices, guesthouses, training centers and airport runways for volunteers who traveled to other countries to assist Bible translators. Read story

People gather June 7, 2014, at the site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home, in Tuam, County Galway. Forensics experts say they have found a mass grave for young children at a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland where suspicions of unrecorded, unmarked burials have lingered for decades.

Experts find mass grave at ex-Catholic orphanage in Ireland

March 3, 2017, 1:29pm Churches & Religion

DUBLIN -- A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland, government-appointed investigators announced Friday in a finding that offered the first conclusive proof following a historian's efforts to trace the fates of nearly 800 children who perished… Read story

Man arrested over threats to Jewish institutions nationwide

March 3, 2017, 10:11am Churches & Religion

NEW YORK -- A jilted ex-boyfriend is behind at least eight of the scores of threats made against Jewish Community Centers nationwide, plus a bomb threat to New York's Anti-Defamation League, in an effort to harass and vilify his former girlfriend, federal officials said Friday. Read story

Give up distractions for Lent

March 3, 2017, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Seriously, I am giving up Donald Trump for Lent. Read story

Pope Francis gets Ash Wednesday ashes in Rome to start Lent

Pope Francis greets children after they drove with him on his car as he toured St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, upon his arrival for his weekly general audience, Wednesday, March 1, 2017.

Pope Francis bowed his forehead to receive a dab of ashes, then smudged ashes in turn on the heads of other faithful during an Ash Wednesday service in an ancient Roman basilica. Ash Wednesday begins the Catholic Church’s annual Lenten period of reflection in preparation for Easter. The… Read story

Abuse survivor quits pope’s panel over Vatican stonewall

Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, right, and Marie Collins attend a press conference at the Vatican. Collins, an Irish woman who was sexually abused by clergy, has quit in frustration her post on a Vatican commission advising Pope Francis about how to fight abuse of minors, Wednesday, March 1, 2017.

Frustrated by what she described as Vatican stonewalling, an Irish woman who was sexually abused by clergy quit her post Wednesday on a pontifical panel advising Pope Francis about how to protect minors from such abuse. Read story