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Famed radio, TV priest Fulton Sheen is beatified
ST. LOUIS—As tens of thousands of Catholic worshippers stood Thursday in a football stadium-turned-temporary cathedral, all eyes focused on a teenage boy walking solemnly toward the makeshift altar, accompanied by his parents and siblings. James Fulton Engstrom carried an ornate vessel containing the relics of his namesake, the man whom the Catholic Church credits with his miraculous survival as a newborn—Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who died in 1979.
In the Passover ritual, Jews worldwide reenact an ancient story of liberation
Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Passover is a major Jewish holiday celebrated over the course of a week each spring. It commemorates the Exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible. It is celebrated around family dinner tables and at communal banquets, where the dramatic story of liberation from slavery is retold. kAmQ!2DD@G6C :D E96 >@DE @3D6CG65 y6H:D9 9@=:52J :?
Fear and vigilance rise as attacks on houses of worship intensify worldwide
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Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate: Why Evangelicals and conservative Christians support Trump in 2024 | Peter Smith / The Associated Press
As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians. “Trump supports Jesus, and without Jesus, America will fall,” said Kimberly Vaughn of Florence, Kentucky, as she joined other supporters of the former president entering a campaign rally near Dayton, Ohio.
Southern Baptists oust one church for having woman pastor, two others over sexual-abuse policy
The Southern Baptist Convention's top administrative body has ousted four congregations — one for having a woman as senior minister, two for what it said were failures related to the denomination's sexual-abuse policy and one for lack of financial participation. The SBC's Executive Committee announced the decision after a closed-door session Tuesday at the end of its two-day meeting in Nashville.
Challenging assumptions: Reexamining America’s identity as a Christian nation
The US Constitution doesn’t mention Christianity or any specific religion. The Declaration of Independence famously proclaims that people’s rights come from a “Creator” and “Nature’s God”—but doesn’t specify who that is. Yet large numbers of Americans believe the founders intended the US to be a Christian nation, and many believe it should be one. Such views are especially strong among Republicans and their white evangelical base.
Greece legalized same-sex marriage. Will other Orthodox countries join soon?
Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under civil law. At least for the near future, it will almost certainly be the only one. Eastern Orthodox leadership, despite lacking a single doctrinal authority like a pope, has been united in opposing recognition of same-sex relationships both within its own rites and in the civil realm. Public opinion in majority Orthodox countries has mostly been opposed, too. But there are some signs of change.
The uproar over Whoopi Goldberg's remarks about the Holocaust has catalyzed somber reflections by many American Jews about not only the legacy of the Holocaust but anti-Jewish discrimination in the United States and their sense of a collective identity.
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