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On Greecr’s Santorini, 13 cloistered nuns pray for the world

THIRA, Greece – Cruise-ship tourists crowding souvenir shops and couples chasing the perfect Instagram sunset throng the alleyway outside the Monastery of St. Catherine, steps from Santorini...

DATE: Jul 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Christians strip down at a South Texas nudist community

Outside the small Texas town of Elsa, a sheet metal fence too tall to see over surrounds a few acres of prime Rio Grande Valley land. In front of the compound’s drab, gray gate, bright orang...

DATE: Jul 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

What’s behind the enduring popularity of crystals?

As New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends ribbon cuttings, marches in parades and bulldozes dirt bikes, he wears an energy stone bracelet that his supporters gave him. In a recent interview,...

DATE: Jul 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Anti-Roe justices a part of Catholicism’s conservative wing

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority. That’s not a coincidence. Nor is it the whole story. The justices who voted to overtur...

DATE: Jul 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A roof over their head: Churches use tiny homes for homeless

Churches across the U.S. are tackling the big question of how to address homelessness in their communities with a small solution: tiny homes. On vacant plots near their parking lots and ste...

DATE: Jun 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

#ChurchToo revelations growing, years after movement began

A withering report about sexual abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. A viral video in which a woman confronts her pastor at ...

DATE: Jun 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

American Heritage Girl builds Durango’s first walking rosary

Project was last requirement to earn Stars and Stripes Award for 17-year-old Nadine Drake

DATE: Jun 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Shootings expose divisions on gun issue in faith communities

After a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, several pastors around the country challenged their conservative counterparts with thi...

DATE: Jun 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns

PITTSBURGH – The victory party took on the feel of an evangelical worship service after Doug Mastriano won Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial primary in May. As a Christian singer led t...

DATE: May 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Southern Baptists face push for public list of sex abusers

A blistering report about the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly acc...

DATE: May 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Buddhist chaplains, offering broad appeal, on the rise in U.S.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Wedged into a recliner in the corner of her assisted living apartment in Portland, Skylar Freimann, who has a terminal heart condition and pulmonary illness, anxiously eyed ...

DATE: May 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

After leak, religious rift over legal abortion on display

America’s faithful are bracing – some with cautionary joy and others with looming dread – for the Supreme Court to potentially overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and end the nat...

DATE: May 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

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