LOS ANGELES – The most expensive film ever produced in Iran, “Muhammad: The Messenger of God,” premiered Thursday to sold-out theaters after being delayed a day due to audio issues, Agence France Press reports. The one-day delay had been the latest hiccup in a seven-year
Religion and spirituality are not common topics of discussion in intensive care units (ICUs), and doctors often go out of their way to avoid them—even though religion is often very important to patients and their medical surrogates during end-of-life care, a new study shows. In
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas secretary of state’s office has denied a request from the Universal Society of Hinduism to place a privately funded Hindu statue on Capitol grounds, according to a rejection letter dated Aug. 17. The society and a slew of other
Last night, I was one of many who received the following email from Msgr. Charles Pope, well-known blogger and writer in the Archdiocese of Washington: Just a brief note to inform you that I have been blocked from Facebook. They claim that Msgr. Charles Pope is
Terrorism works. This is why we keep seeing more of it. When the shattered and frightened West is threatened, it doesn’t stand up for its principles, it backs down. And so the next time the jihadis want something from us, they will threaten us again.
A feud over theology has led an unusual ecumenical project in a small Arizona town. Eight churches—including Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and non-denominational congregations—in Fountain Hills have teamed up for a campaign of public banners and sermons aimed at the theology of a nearby Methodist church.
Clutching rosaries, posters reading “Don’t jail Christians,” and religious images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, members of San Diego’s Chaldean community Thursday sought to call attention to the plight of 27 Iraqi Christians being held at the Otay Detention Center. The group of about
Taking its flagship event overseas for the first time, Teen Mania held its Acquire the Fire conference last month in Myanmar, also known as Burma. The slowly-reforming country regularly appears on lists of the hardest places for Christians to live. More than 13,000 Burmese attended the two-night
No-one would describe the New York Times as especially sympathetic to orthodox Christianity. The Grey Lady’s established aversion to anything but all-but-completely secularized versions of the Christian faith didn’t, however, stop it from recently publishing a widely-read article underscoring the on-going brutal persecution of Christians
The new Europe, same as, or much like, the old Europe. “You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews,” says the Qur’an, which in practice means that the most intense of the people in
Praying the Rosary
Familiarize yourself with the prayers of the rosary.
