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Religious leaders share range of views on abortion

May 28, 2022, 6:02am Churches & Religion

As a crowd gathered outside City Hall in downtown Orlando to rally a day after a draft of a Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked, The Rev. Margalie Belizaire joined them to demand that the nation’s abortion rights remain intact. Read story

A cross and Bible sculpture stand outside the Southern Baptist Convention headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. On Tuesday, top administrative leaders for the SBC, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said that they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse.

Top Southern Baptists plan to release secret list of abusers

A cross and Bible sculpture stand outside the Southern Baptist Convention headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. On Tuesday, top administrative leaders for the SBC, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said that they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse.

May 24, 2022, 6:44pm Churches & Religion

Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse. Read story

FILE - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, of California, speaks during a news conference on May 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco said Friday, May 20, 2022, that he would no longer allow Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights.

Pelosi pushes back on archbishop who denies her Communion

FILE - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, of California, speaks during a news conference on May 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco said Friday, May 20, 2022, that he would no longer allow Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights.

May 24, 2022, 8:23am Churches & Religion

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back Tuesday on the decision by San Francisco's conservative Catholic archbishop to deny her Communion over her support of abortion rights, saying she respects that people have opposing views but not when they impose them on others. Read story

Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen leaves after an appearance at a court in Hong Kong as he was charged in relation to their past fundraising for activists, Tuesday, May 24, 2022.

Hong Kong Catholic cardinal denies charges over relief fund

Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen leaves after an appearance at a court in Hong Kong as he was charged in relation to their past fundraising for activists, Tuesday, May 24, 2022.

May 24, 2022, 7:53am Churches & Religion

Arrested former Hong Kong Catholic leader Cardinal Joseph Zen and five others denied charges on Tuesday that they failed to register a relief fund aimed at assisting protesters who faced legal costs during 2019 anti-government protests. Read story

In this photo provided by the Templeton Prize, physicist Frank Wilczek stands for a portrait at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., on March 17, 2022. Wilczek, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author renowned for his boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature, was honored Wednesday, May 11, 2022, with the Templeton Prize, awarded to individuals whose life's work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality.

Merging science, spirituality: Nobel laureate, physicist wins Templeton Prize

In this photo provided by the Templeton Prize, physicist Frank Wilczek stands for a portrait at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., on March 17, 2022. Wilczek, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author renowned for his boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature, was honored Wednesday, May 11, 2022, with the Templeton Prize, awarded to individuals whose life's work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality.

May 21, 2022, 6:02am Churches & Religion

Frank Wilczek, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author renowned for his boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature, was honored May 11 with this year’s prestigious Templeton Prize, awarded to individuals whose life’s work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality. Read story

In this handout photograph provided by Jason Fishman, Chelsea Millsap, who was named sexton of the historic Old North Church, poses May 3, 2022 in Boston. Millsap, 32, who can trace her ancestry to the Pilgrims, is the first woman named sexton in the church's nearly 300-year history, a job that involves caring for and maintaining the parish buildings and equipment, including an 18th century clock, the 75-piece chandeliers, and perhaps coolest of all, the crypt where more than 1,100 people have been laid to rest.

Historic Boston church names sexton

In this handout photograph provided by Jason Fishman, Chelsea Millsap, who was named sexton of the historic Old North Church, poses May 3, 2022 in Boston. Millsap, 32, who can trace her ancestry to the Pilgrims, is the first woman named sexton in the church's nearly 300-year history, a job that involves caring for and maintaining the parish buildings and equipment, including an 18th century clock, the 75-piece chandeliers, and perhaps coolest of all, the crypt where more than 1,100 people have been laid to rest.

May 21, 2022, 6:02am Churches & Religion

The thousands of tourists who visit Boston’s Old North Church probably won’t see much of Chelsea Millsap on their trip, even though she may just have the most important job at the historic site. Read story

Tacoma Catholics to merge parishes

May 21, 2022, 5:04am Churches & Religion

Four declining Tacoma Catholic parishes will be merged into one this summer and become the new St. John XXIII Parish. Read story

FILE - Flowers sit outside crime scene tape at Geneva Presbyterian Church on May 17, 2022, in Laguna Woods, Calif., where a shooting at the church on Sunday left one dead and five injured. Officials in California's Orange County are still trying to determine why a gunman opened fire in the church.

Gunman targets Taiwanese faith with long pro-democracy link

FILE - Flowers sit outside crime scene tape at Geneva Presbyterian Church on May 17, 2022, in Laguna Woods, Calif., where a shooting at the church on Sunday left one dead and five injured. Officials in California's Orange County are still trying to determine why a gunman opened fire in the church.

May 19, 2022, 7:42am Churches & Religion

The recent deadly shooting at Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in California didn’t just violate a sacred space. Taiwanese Americans across the country say it ripped through their cultural bastion. Read story

Pope Francis arrives in a wheel chair in the Paul VI hall to attend an audience with pilgrims from central Italy at the Vatican, Saturday, May 14, 2022.

Pope’s recipe to heal his painful knee? A shot of tequila

Pope Francis arrives in a wheel chair in the Paul VI hall to attend an audience with pilgrims from central Italy at the Vatican, Saturday, May 14, 2022.

May 17, 2022, 7:54am Churches & Religion

Doctors have prescribed a wheelchair, cane and physical therapy to help heal Pope Francis’ bad knee. He has other ideas. Read story

FILE - Israeli police confront mourners as they carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem, Friday, May 13, 2022. Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, told reporters at St. Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem on Monday that the police beating mourners as they carried Shireen Abu Akleh's her casket was a disproportionate use of force that "disrespected" the Catholic Church. He added that Israel committed a "severe violation" of international norms.

Catholic leader blasts Israeli conduct at journalist funeral

FILE - Israeli police confront mourners as they carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem, Friday, May 13, 2022. Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, told reporters at St. Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem on Monday that the police beating mourners as they carried Shireen Abu Akleh's her casket was a disproportionate use of force that "disrespected" the Catholic Church. He added that Israel committed a "severe violation" of international norms.

May 16, 2022, 8:08am Churches & Religion

The top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land on Monday condemned the police beating of mourners carrying the casket of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, accusing the authorities of violating human rights and disrespecting the Catholic Church. Read story