Two men convicted of Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination will be exonerated by a New York court, according to news reports.
Texas Baptists create task force to address generational change
Texas Baptists addressed generational change at their annual meeting, voting overwhelmingly to create a task force to explore ways to increase Millennial and Generation Z involvement in churches and the denomination.
Bishops OK Communion document, avoid direct rebuff to Biden
U.S. Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved a long-anticipated document on Communion on Wednesday that stops short of calling for withholding the sacrament from politicians such as President Joe Biden who support abortion rights but offers plenty of tacit justification for individual…
Anti-abortion group rolls out $2.5 million ad campaign ahead of SCOTUS case
The Susan B. Anthony List, a prominent anti-abortion group, announced a $2.5 million television and digital ad buy on Wednesday ahead of next month’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court on a Mississippi abortion law.
Ciao, Alitalia: How Will The Pope Fly After His Favorite Airline Goes Bust?
I have many fond memories of family trips to Italy that took place each summer during my childhood. Those summer pilgrimages to visit family and friends included connecting with the place of my parents’ birth as well as seeing some…
As Biden’s agenda navigates Congress, faith groups lobby Manchin
Religious leaders are pushing federal lawmakers in different directions as they debate major aspects of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, with some framing support for anti-poverty measures as a matter of faith and others expressing concern the federal government will…
Man sentenced in hate group plot threatening Blacks, Jews
A New Jersey man is going to prison for his role in conspiring with a hate group to threaten and intimidate properties owned by Black people and Jews throughout the country.
Why the minichurch is the latest trend in American religion
The Rev. Derek Miller has seen the future of the church in America.
Pope thanks journalists for helping expose Church sex scandals
Pope Francis on Saturday thanked journalists for helping uncover the clerical sexual abuse scandals that the Roman Catholic Church initially tried to cover up.
US Catholic bishops may dodge rebuke of Biden over abortion
While some US Catholic bishops continue to denounce President Joe Biden for his support of legal abortion, their conference as a whole is likely to avoid direct criticism of him at its upcoming national meeting.
What is a young man worth?
Stephen Tolson says he heard at 10 years old to stay away from Paul Pressler. In the late 1970s, Pressler was an up-and-coming Harris County, Texas, judge and a youth director at Bethel Independent Presbyterian Church in Houston, where Tolson’s father…
William Sterling Cary, pioneering Black pastor, dies at 94
William Sterling Cary, a pioneering minister and civil rights activist who was the first Black person in prominent church leadership roles including president of the National Council of Churches, has died, according to family members. He was 94.