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Holy Apostles Orthodox Christian Church expands to bigger location, puts building up for sale at $650,000

January 13, 2025, 6:08am Business Subscriber Exclusive

For just $650,000, buyers can get their hands on a circa 1900, 2,400-square-foot building with a beautiful interior in a quiet residential neighborhood. But they better like a church vibe… Read story

Anti-Nazi pastor’s legacy claimed, debated

January 11, 2025, 5:59am Churches & Religion

Shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39, Dietrich Bonhoeffer reportedly told a fellow prisoner: “This is the end — for me the beginning of… Read story

Nasrieen Habib, left, and Makiya Amin pull their snow tubes on top of a hill during an outing organized by the group Habib founded to promote outdoors activities among Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4.

Muslim women’s group tackles outdoors, bias

Nasrieen Habib, left, and Makiya Amin pull their snow tubes on top of a hill during an outing organized by the group Habib founded to promote outdoors activities among Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4.

January 11, 2025, 5:57am Churches & Religion

Ice crystals clung to the eyelashes, parka hood, beanie hat and headscarf of Ruqayah Nasser as she took a break after her first-ever snow tubing runs in a Minnesota park on a subzero January morning. Read story

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.

In his first 2025 catechism lesson, Pope says anyone who exploits or abuses a child answers to God

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.

January 8, 2025, 8:09am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced the “scourge” of child labor and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or exploits a child will have to answer to God. Read story

Jimmy Carter’s personal pastor readies to deliver biggest sermon of life

January 8, 2025, 8:06am Churches & Religion

The Rev. Tony Lowden often goes back to the voice message. Read story

Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office

January 6, 2025, 8:07am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic Church’s religious orders. Read story

Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa, right, kneels in prayer in the chapel at the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans on June 25.

Young women joining ranks of Catholic nuns

Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa, right, kneels in prayer in the chapel at the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans on June 25.

January 4, 2025, 6:04am Churches & Religion

It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. Read story

Pope Francis kisses a wooden statuette of the infant Jesus at the end of a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at The Vatican on New Year’s Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.

Pope calls for commitment to protect life as he doubles down on abortion in New Year’s Day message

Pope Francis kisses a wooden statuette of the infant Jesus at the end of a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at The Vatican on New Year’s Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.

January 1, 2025, 11:02am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death. Read story

Ma Aijun, 45, of China, poses next to a mountain of scrap metal unloaded from the Chinese merchant ship he works on, at the port of Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024.

Seafarers move global trade — and Christmas gifts. These ministries bring them holiday cheer

Ma Aijun, 45, of China, poses next to a mountain of scrap metal unloaded from the Chinese merchant ship he works on, at the port of Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024.

December 29, 2024, 6:00am Churches & Religion

On a balmy December evening, four Indian crew members, eager to go explore this Mediterranean city where their container ship docked for a few hours, turned for help to Stella Maris. It’s the largest of the faith-based organizations that minister to seafarers in hundreds of ports around the world. Read story

Sandor Iron Rope, Oglala Lakota tribe member, president of the Native American Church of South Dakota and Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative board member, left, and Miriam Volat, executive director of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative and co-director of the RiverStyx Foundation, look for peyote, a cactus and sacred plant medicine utilized in ceremony by members of the Native American Church, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

What is the Native American Church and why is peyote sacred to members?

Sandor Iron Rope, Oglala Lakota tribe member, president of the Native American Church of South Dakota and Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative board member, left, and Miriam Volat, executive director of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative and co-director of the RiverStyx Foundation, look for peyote, a cactus and sacred plant medicine utilized in ceremony by members of the Native American Church, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

December 28, 2024, 6:05am Churches & Religion

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some parts of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native… Read story