PRINCETON, NJ — Even as overall party identification trends in the U.S. have shifted over the past six and half years, the relationship between religion and...
(Slate) – In the United States, conventional wisdom holds that you should raise your child to be religious. Taking the kids to church is the...
The Associated Press Muslim families driven from their homes by the fierce fighting between Israel and Hamas are observing Ramadan in Gaza City’s Greek Orthodox church....
(Los Angeles Times) – The Supreme Court’s controversial Hobby Lobby decision has thrust a once-little-known boutique law firm into the center of a growing conservative...
Washington (Salt Lake Tribune) – We like ourselves. A new Pew Research survey finds U.S. adults feel most warmly about people who share their religion or those they...
RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer A canon lawyer alleging a widespread cover-up of clergy sex misconduct in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has made...
by Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Cleave to that which is good. — Romans 12:9 This week, I’m sharing Les Brown’s...
(The Washington Post) – In a new study released Tuesday, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that “concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim...
Lyndia Grant by Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Sometimes the problems of life, or let’s call them hits, just keep coming;...
by Rev. Manson B. Johnson Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times 12 PILLARS OF CHARACTER FOR TOOL BOX MEN/BOY (TOOL BOX MEN & BOYS...
(AP) – Republicans called it a win for religious freedom. The decision of the Supreme Court, they said, is further evidence the country’s new health...
Nicole Winfield, ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has defrocked its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic for sexually abusing boys. It’s the first time...
Nicole Winfield, ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican conceded Thursday that most Catholics reject its teachings on sex and contraception as intrusive and irrelevant and...
[CNN] Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from South Africa, called one of his books “God is Not a Christian.” He might have added...
By Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just…...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has come out strongly against the legalization of recreational drugs, lending his voice to the debate which is raging...
by James Washington Special to the NNPA from The Houston Forward-Times I remember reviewing the letters of Paul in bible study. In doing so I was...
by Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Twelve weeks of study will come to an end on the 12 Things That...
BARBARA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One might be hidden in a cross on a church lawn. Others are disguised as a cactus...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has a message for the World Cup: Let football be a showcase for teamwork and solidarity,...
by Pastor E.A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times “Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis ousted the all-Italian board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency Thursday and installed a more international set of experts following clashes between the...
ABBY PHILLIP, The Washington Post (The Washington Post)—Maryland mega-church Pastor Jamal H. Bryant took a page out of the Book of Breezy to supplement his Sunday sermon...
Ministry to Remove Billboard with Hitler Quote AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — The founder of a children’s ministry in eastern Alabama says a billboard featuring a quote...
By Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer My life changed 30 years ago after reading “Think and Grow Rich,” the book researched...
