July 11, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
Seventh-day Adventists voted Wednesday that individual regions of the 18 million-member Protestant denomination cannot choose to ordain female ministers. Read story
July 10, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
Over the past several weeks, a handful of predominantly black churches across the South have burned down. Read story
July 10, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia -- Pope Francis urged inmates at Bolivia's notoriously violent Palmasola prison to not despair on Friday as he wrapped up his visit to Bolivia with a message of hope and solidarity for those caught up in Bolivia's corruption-plagued criminal justice system. Read story
July 9, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Pope Francis denounced the "throwaway" culture of today's society that discards anyone who is unproductive as he celebrated his first public Mass in Bolivia on Thursday, one of the key days of his South American pilgrimage. It will culminate with a summit of farmers, fishermen and… Read story
July 8, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
QUITO, Ecuador — Wrapping up the Ecuador leg of his South American pilgrimage, Pope Francis was heading Wednesday to Bolivia, where church-state tensions over everything from the environment to the role of the church in society are high on the agenda. Read story
July 8, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
QUITO, Ecuador -- Pope Francis pressed his case for a new economic and environmental world order Tuesday during his South American tour, saying the goods of the Earth are meant for everyone and must not be exploited by the wealthy few for short-term profit at the expense of the poor. Read story
July 7, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
QUITO, Ecuador — Pope Francis urged Latin Americans to channel the same urgency that brought them independence from Spain two centuries ago to spread the faith on a continent where Catholicism is losing souls to other religious movements, using his final Mass in Ecuador to issue an appeal for the… Read story
July 7, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
DENVER — A suburban Denver baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple will argue in court Tuesday that his religious beliefs should protect him from sanctions against his business. Read story
July 6, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
QUITO, Ecuador -- Pope Francis travels to the Ecuadorean port of Guayaquil on Monday for a Mass expected to draw more than 1 million people, as Latin America's first pontiff tours his home continent bringing a message of compassion for the weak and respect for an ailing planet. Read story
July 4, 2015, 12:00am Churches & Religion
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis is taking his "church for the poor" to three of South America's poorest and most peripheral countries, making a grueling, weeklong trip that will showcase the pope at his unpredictable best: speaking his native Spanish on his home turf about issues closest to his heart. Read story
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