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The cause for canonization of Argentine businessman Enrique Shaw took another step forward as the alleged miracle attributed ...

THE latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted from Dec. 12 to 18 last year showed that 90 percent of adult ...

This Sunday, there will be an in-person worship service at 10 a.m. The service is also livestreamed on the church Facebook page. Pastor Rebecca Irelan will present the sermon. Both virtual and ...

Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International ...

Blood drives ...

Merge. The Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, the Rev. Michael W. Fisher, has officially issued a decree regarding the fate of Ss.

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Among the thousands of buildings destroyed in the wildfires were a mosque, a synagogue, a Catholic parish and a half-dozen ...

Flames were already attacking the campus of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center when the cantor, Ruth Berman Harris, and three ...

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic ...

Fires raging in the Los Angeles area reduced some 12,000 structures to ash and rubble, killed at least 11, displaced thousands of others and spread over an area larger than the ...