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Pope Francis called Wednesday for a “humble” Christmas this year, with savings from reduced spending on gifts donated to help the “suffering people of Ukraine.” Francis called for “concrete gestures” of charity for Ukrainians this holiday season during his weekly general audience.
AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) – Jordan has launched a $100 million master plan aimed at attracting 1 million Christian pilgrims to celebrations of the second millennium of the baptism of Jesus in 2030.
The site where John the Baptist is believed to have baptized Jesus could be getting a 100 million makeover as part of a plan to draw as many as a million Christian pilgrims annually to the country of ...
Officials in Ukraine have ordered punitive measures to be taken against seven Orthodox Church clergy who purportedly have sympathetic ties to Russia as part of a crackdown on Moscow-affiliated ...
Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday accused the United States of effectively being a party to the war in Ukraine. She added that if the U.S. fulfilled a promise to send a...
A Colombian teenager who was moved to a safe house by a Christian ministry after experiencing persecution at the hands of a local indigenous people group says she fears for her family s safety amid ...
Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rosary sits in a “religious complex” housing other Christian denominations. And at this church in Qatar, the small Gulf emirate hosting the World Cup, there are some tweaks to tradition.
The U S State Department is urging the Nigerian government to establish an independent investigation after Reuters reported last week that the Nigerian military is carrying out a secret campaign of ...
The Jewish Maccabean revolt against the Greek Seleucid Kingdom more than two thousand years ago is one of the most stirring events in Jewish history. The revolt and the miracle of the provision of oil in the Temple led to the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah, which is the festival celebrating the uprising against the Greek Seleucid kings and the restoration of the Jewish Temple. Last May, archaeologists discovered a wooden box containing 15 silver coins dating back 2,200 years to the time of the Hellenistic ruler Antiochus IV, who desecrated the Temple and persecuted the Jews.
If you didn t pay attention in history class, chances are, you might not connect modern-day Turkey with Christianity A recent trip to this secular republic where 99 of the population is Muslim, ...
