President Obama and the First Family attended church yesterday morning at St. Johns Episcopal in Lafayette Square. Rev. Luis Leon preached on Jesus’ parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector in the gospel of Luke, and his …
Ken Francis Hackett arrives in Rome
Joshua Dubois has emailed short Christian reflections to Barack Obama every day for more than five years. He started one morning during the 2008 presidential campaign when he worked for then-Senator Obama and kept up the ritual …
Pope Francis met with the winners of the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize two weeks ago today at the Vatican.
Video of a slam poetry performance by a twenty-year-old University of North Carolina drama student is going viral, with nearly 70,000 views on YouTube. The controversial title and message of his poem: “God is gay.”
President Obama will deliver remarks at the memorial service Sunday evening for the 13 victims of last week’s Navy Yard shooting in Washington, DC. He has presided over more than a handful such days of remembrance in his five …
Every morning, Pope Francis celebrates mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. The service is small and intimate—usually fifty or so people attend—and the Holy Father preaches spontaneously in Italian to set the tone …
Pope Francis made a private visit to the Astalli refugee center in Rome on Tuesday, and, while meeting with several hundred refugees, singled out a Syrian family to listen to their story. The family was given time with the pope …
Andrew Hamblin handles poisonous snakes every Sunday in the name of Jesus. At just 22, he leads Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tenn., a Pentecostal church that practices a rare, century-old Christian tradition of …
Pope Francis isn’t eating much today—he’s fasting and praying for Syria, and hundreds of thousands of Christians across the globe are joining him.
Today, during a five-hour evening prayer service for Syria in St. Peter’s …
Update, Sept. 7, 3:37pm EST: Pope Francis spoke out this evening in St. Peter’s Square against an attack in Syria. For the full story, click here.
Pope Francis has written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, host of …
They call themselves the NALT Christians, and Wednesday morning they quietly launched a video campaign with a controversial message: there is nothing anti-Biblical or inherently sinful about being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or …
Freedom House Church did not seem all that free this weekend.
