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Faith before basketball for Yeshiva University champions

NEW YORK – Each of the mighty Maccabees has his role on the men’s basketball team. Gabriel Leifer sinks three-pointers; Daniel Katz is the defense wizard; Simcha Halpert makes the perfect al...

DATE: Mar 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

Gospel of Matthew’s message rings loudly for some 2020 Dems

NEW YORK – When Pete Buttigieg launched his first statewide television ad in South Carolina two months ago, its opening lines may have sounded familiar to a churchgoer. The ad ope...

DATE: Feb 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

More companies boost faith-based support for employees

NEW YORK – It has become standard practice for U.S. corporations to assure employees of support regardless of their race, gender or sexual orientation. There’s now an intensifying push to en...

DATE: Feb 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

Moving faith: Mexican town’s saint feast lives in Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS – In Midwestern boots or bare feet in sandals, the faithful walked in procession down a snow-covered street here, keeping the rhythm of festive music and carrying paintings of St...

DATE: Feb 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

For Auschwitz survivor, telling her story is reason to live

NEW YORK – Bronia Brandman pulls up a sleeve on her leather jacket and shows the blue tattoo inked on her forearm that is a muted witness to her pain under the Nazis at Auschwitz. ...

DATE: Jan 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

A silent worship revival at an Episcopal church for the deaf

NEW YORK – The Lord’s Prayer ended with the bang of dozens of fists that landed on open palms after a circular motion and a thumbs up in a joint “Amen!” Not a voice could be heard...

DATE: Jan 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

St. Columba Parish to host Rosary Day for Life

St. Columba Parish invites the community to join in a Rosary Day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the church, 1800 East Second Ave. The Rosary will be led continuously each hal...

DATE: Jan 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

White evangelicals distinct on abortion, LGBT policy, poll shows

Poll: Most say religion should have influence on policymaking

DATE: Jan 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

Methodists propose split in gay marriage, clergy impasse

Conservative churches would form new denomination

DATE: Jan 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

Year-end violence highlights danger of worshipping

NEW YORK – When a machete-wielding attacker walked into a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, during Hanukkah and a gunman fired on worshippers at a Texas church 14 hours later, the two congre...

DATE: Jan 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

Jewish leaders urge action after another ‘senseless’ attack

NEW YORK – When a suspect walked into the home of a rabbi celebrating Hanukkah and stabbed five celebrants it was the latest in a week of anti-Semitic attacks in the nation’s most demographi...

DATE: Dec 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion

How St. Francis created the Nativity scene with a miraculous event in 1223

Around the Christmas season, it is common to see a display of the Nativity scene: a small manger with the baby Jesus and his family, shepherds, the three wise men believed to have visited Je...

DATE: Dec 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion