December 3, 2021, 8:35am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis on Friday denounced the “indifference” that the West shows migrants as the Vatican confirmed at least a dozen asylum-seekers would be transferred from Cyprus to Italy in a gesture of solidarity with countries that have borne the brunt of receiving would-be refugees. Read story
December 2, 2021, 8:31am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis praised the “mosaic” of Cyprus’ multiethnic people as he arrived Thursday on the ethnically divided Mediterranean island and urged it to welcome migrants and heal the divisions that have lacerated the country for nearly a half-century. Read story
November 30, 2021, 8:30am Churches & Religion
When Pope Francis visited the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016, he was so moved by the stories he heard from families fleeing war in Iraq and Syria that he wept and brought a dozen refugees home with him. Read story
November 27, 2021, 6:11am Churches & Religion
Under golden morning sunlight shining through stained glass, 59-year-old Michael “Red” Adkins sat at a table inside Shiloh Baptist Church on Hilltop. With staff buzzing around him, including Pastor Gregory Christopher, he prepared for the day ahead. Read story
November 27, 2021, 6:05am Churches & Religion
New York Police Department Officer Christopher DeFlorio works two beats — one in the 32nd Precinct, and the other on a higher plane. Read story
November 25, 2021, 9:35am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis told Lebanon’s prime minister on Thursday that he was praying that God would help Lebanon “get up” and get back on its feet following an unprecedented economic crisis that has thrown three quarters of the country’s 6 million people, including a million Syrian refugees, into poverty. Read story
November 21, 2021, 6:04am Churches & Religion
The Rev. Ryan Sidhom dislikes the idea of a church looking better and better while the neighborhood around it looks worse and worse, he said. Read story
November 20, 2021, 6:02am Churches & Religion
The tolling of 10 bells echoed through Mariners’ Church of Detroit on Sunday, to memorialize 30,000 men and women lost in shipwrecks across the Great Lakes. Read story
November 20, 2021, 6:02am Churches & Religion
A service held in October at St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church signifies a new partnership between one of Baltimore’s historic churches and a fledgling congregation, both rooted in LGBTQ affirmation and inclusivity, generations apart. Read story
November 20, 2021, 6:00am Churches & Religion
Father Solanus Casey, the Capuchin friar who co-founded the Capuchin Soup Kitchen in Detroit and was beatified in 2017, is known to many as an inspiration and is a miracle away from being declared a Catholic saint. Read story
