Religion – The Durango Herald

Mormon women’s influence expands despite priesthood ban

SALT LAKE CITY – When she was younger, Sharon Eubank figured she would one day marry and form the kind of nuclear family typically expected of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter...

DATE: Jan 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Across U.S., houses of worship struggle to rebuild attendance

When Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston resumed in-person services late last year, after a seven-month halt because of COVID-19, there were Sundays when only three worshippers sh...

DATE: Dec 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

What’s your religion? In U.S., a common reply now is ‘none’

Nathalie Charles, even in her mid-teens, felt unwelcome in her Baptist congregation, with its conservative views about immigration, gender and sexuality. So she left. “I just don’t feel like...

DATE: Dec 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

Barred from priesthood, some Catholic women find other roles

ROME – Women aspiring to leadership in the Catholic church have long come to terms with the glass ceiling that exists in the male-dominated institution, but Pope Francis’ spate of female app...

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

Religious abortion rights supporters fight for access

On the day the Supreme Court heard arguments in a Mississippi abortion ban case, Sheila Katz plans to be at a nearby church. It is where the Jewish organization she leads is helping to host...

DATE: Nov 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

Foes of death penalty offer spiritual support at executions

NEW YORK – After Sister Barbara Battista, a Roman Catholic nun staunchly opposed to the death penalty, agreed to accompany a condemned man at his execution in federal prison, she wondered do...

DATE: Nov 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

A new book on faith from popular author who died in 2019

NEW YORK – Christian author Rachel Held Evans left behind a legion of loyal readers when she died in May 2019, at the age of 37. Last June, a children’s book she’d been working on was publis...

DATE: Oct 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

Remnants of Black church uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The brick foundation of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches has been unearthed at Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Virginia that continues to recko...

DATE: Oct 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

National cathedral names artist to replace Confederate windows

Washington National Cathedral announced last week it has chosen contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall, renowned for his wide-ranging works depicting African American life, to design new s...

DATE: Sep 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

Largest U.S. Catholic parish rises in California’s interior

VISALIA, Calif. – It’s billed as the largest Catholic parish in the United States and it’s being constructed about 200 miles north of Los Angeles, in what’s often referred to “as the heart o...

DATE: Sep 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

As COVID-19 vaccine mandates rise, religious exemptions grow

An estimated 2,600 Los Angeles Police Department employees are citing religious objections to try to get out of the required COVID-19 vaccination. In Washington state, thousands of state wor...

DATE: Sep 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

Some abortion foes question tactical wisdom of new Texas ban

The new Texas law that bans most abortions in the state has been welcomed by many of the religious leaders who help bolster the anti-abortion movement. Yet some abortion opponents in U.S. re...

DATE: Sep 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

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Mormon women’s influence expands despite priesthood ban

Across U.S., houses of worship struggle to rebuild attendance

What’s your religion? In U.S., a common reply now is ‘none’

Barred from priesthood, some Catholic women find other roles

Religious abortion rights supporters fight for access

Foes of death penalty offer spiritual support at executions

A new book on faith from popular author who died in 2019

Remnants of Black church uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg

National cathedral names artist to replace Confederate windows

Largest U.S. Catholic parish rises in California’s interior

As COVID-19 vaccine mandates rise, religious exemptions grow

Some abortion foes question tactical wisdom of new Texas ban

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