The daughter of an imprisoned Chinese pastor is expressing confidence as she shared the story of her father s detention Monday during the sixth annual International Religious Freedom Summit,
Bill Langley, senior pastor of Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown, will work with the IMB to help Southern Baptist churches that have no recent connection to the mission agency.
In recent weeks, CNA has been covering a Vatican financial scandal involving a multi-million-dollar investment fund, money donated by Catholics to support charity and Vatican ministries, and a pair of banks linked to money-laundering and bribery allegations.
To carry out the continuing reform of the Church requires a willingness to change and a commitment to personal conversion, Pope Francis said Saturday, during his annual Christmas greeting to the bishops and cardinals of the Roman Curia.
Of the top 10 missionary-sending churches in the SBC, five are in the Raleigh-Durham area. "[The area's culture] has created a dynamic push of people out," says Paul Chitwood. "It all goes back to leadership."
Gavin Ashenden, a former Honorary Chaplain to the Queen in the Church of England who was consecrated a bishop in a Continuing Anglican ecclesial community, will be received into the Catholic Church on Sunday.
In 2019, Pope Francis unveiled a new bronze sculpture in St. Peter’s Square, “Angels Unawares,” a depiction of migrants throughout history crammed together on a boat with the holy family.
Pope Francis declared Tuesday that the pontifical secret will no longer apply in cases of accusations and trials involving abuse of minors or vulnerable persons, and in cases of possession of child pornography by clerics.