KEY WEST, Fla. — Ruthie Browning dove into the calm, blue water off Key West, Florida, expecting to see “a big, old rock with stuff growing all over it.” She was on a pilgrimage with other Black divers and community members, visiting sacred sites including one where a British slave ship ...
ROME (AP) — With Pope Leo XIV’s first big crisis looming, the Vatican Wednesday issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that their planned consecration of bishops without papal consent constitutes a schismatic act that incurs automatic excommunication. Leo ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV surprised 13 priests from southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, by joining a video call from Rome on Wednesday, telling them they were in his prayers and that he hoped peace would soon prevail along the tense frontier. The Lebanese Catholic and Maronite ...
As we wait for summer, or at least warmer days, I see a real desire for greenery and flowers. The other day, as I was checking out of the grocery store, a woman had bought plants. I do not know whether she realized we may still have frost. I have in the past been gifted. I received several ...
WASHINGTON — The Christian Employers Alliance (CEA), which engages a network of more than 30,000 faith-based employers across all 50 states — including many of the nation’s largest faith-based organizations — On Thursday, released the 2026 Edition of its Congressional Biblical Business ...
JACKSON, MS — Black, sweeping lines form an outline of a tree on the brick wall that once displayed the Tree of Life in Mississippi’s largest synagogue. The commemorative brass plaque was damaged but withstood a fire that was intentionally set earlier this year at Beth Israel ...
