Churches & Religion

Man suspected of theft from church, threatening with knife

September 6, 2016, 6:51pm Churches & Religion

A man suspected of stealing a TV from a Vancouver church and brandishing a knife at a church affiliate appeared Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court. Read story

Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity group founded by Mother Teresa is illuminated with a huge portrait of her displayed in Kolkata, India, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016.

Mother Teresa: ‘Saint of the gutters’ canonized at Vatican

September 4, 2016, 5:40pm Churches & Religion

Elevating the “saint of the gutters” to one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors, Pope Francis on Sunday praised Mother Teresa for her radical dedication to society’s outcasts and her courage in shaming world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.” Read story

The Rev. James W. Goolsby, Jr., senior pastor of the First Baptist Church, left, and the Rev. Scott Dickison, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Christ talk in July at Dickison's church in Macon, Ga. There are two First Baptist Churches in Macon: one black and one white. Two years ago, Dickison and Goolsby met to try to find a way the congregations, neighbors for so long, could become friends. They would try to bridge the stubborn divide of race.

Churches, split on race lines, work to heal divide

September 3, 2016, 6:02am Churches & Religion

There are two First Baptist Churches in Macon — one black and one white. They sit almost back-to-back, separated by a small park, in a hilltop historic district overlooking downtown. Read story

An inmate sits on his bed at 'Nirmal Hriday Kalighat, Mother Teresa's home for the dying and destitute in Kolkata, India, on Friday.

Kolkata remembers Mother Teresa on the eve of sainthood

September 2, 2016, 1:36pm Churches & Religion

As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city where she lived and worked for close to 50 years are filled with pride. Read story

Mother Teresa prays at the Missionaries of Charity in East Beirut, Lebanon, on Aug. 15, 1982.

Mother Teresa: A saint despite spiritual ‘darkness’

September 1, 2016, 6:08am Churches & Religion

When Pope Francis canonizes Mother Teresa on Sunday, he’ll be honoring a nun who won admirers around the world and a Nobel Peace Prize for her joy-filled dedication to the “poorest of the poor.” He’ll also be recognizing holiness in a woman who felt so abandoned by God that she… Read story

2 slain nuns remembered for ‘Christian love in action’

People stand in line to attend a vigil for the deceased held at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, Miss., for Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill on Sunday. The two nuns, from different orders, were found murdered in the Durant, Miss., house they rented, on Thursday. Over 300 people attended the service. Although authorities have arrested a suspect, they speculate on the motive of the deaths of the two nurse practitioners, who worked the poor in a clinic in Lexington. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

Hundreds of people filled a cathedral in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday to remember two nuns who spent decades helping the needy and were found stabbed to death last week in their home in one of the poorest counties of the state. Read story

Slain nuns leave void in Mississippi community they served

A Mississippi Bureau of Investigation agent takes a bag with evidence from the Durant, Miss., home of two slain Catholic nuns who worked as nurses at the Lexington Medical Clinic, to her vehicle, Thursday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

The two nuns who were killed in Mississippi were by all accounts some of the most friendly, helpful people in town, cooking and caring for anyone in their poor community — making their slayings all the more puzzling. Read story