Pope Francis announced on Sunday (March 22) that he will be delivering an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing and indulgence due to the coronavirus pandemic that has been disrupting the world and has had its largest outbreak in Italy.
Romney Says Mormons Who Welcomed Missionaries Home Are ‘Irresponsible’
U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney and Utah state leaders on Monday criticized as irresponsible a weekend gathering of hundreds at a Salt Lake City airport parking garage to welcome home 900 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionaries returning from…
Iran Releases a Third of Christian Prisoners Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Forced by the new coronavirus, Iran took the tiniest of steps to placate global advocacy for religious freedom.
Churches Reconsider Drive-In Worship
The idea was a novelty in the 1950s, promoted as the church of the future. But it’s time didn’t come, and never came, and then it was gone, and the whole thing seemed silly. There were still a few drive-in…
Netanyahu urges Gantz to help him ‘save Israel’ as nations sink like ‘Titanics’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday warned that the health care systems of countries around the world are facing imminent collapse if the spread of the coronavirus cannot be contained, and claimed that the virus may turn out to prove…
Catholic Cardinal Burke says faithful should attend Mass despite coronavirus
In an online statement, conservative Catholic Cardinal Raymond Burke said that access to Mass and the sacraments must not be denied even as the world faces the coronavirus pandemic.
The man who hoarded 17,000 bottles of sanitizer did nothing wrong ― and that’s the problem
Matt Colvin got thoroughly roasted on the internet this past weekend. Twitter was strewn with quote-tweets denouncing the high immorality of a man stockpiling 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer, intending to sell it at a big markup on ebay and…
Pentecostal Pastor Won’t Stop Church for COVID-19
A pastor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says he will defy government orders intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Is social justice the new reformation?
“As a pastor, you shouldn’t take a stand one way or the other. You should just be neutral.” I often hear lines like this from church members.