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Barbara Harris, first woman ordained in Anglican Communion, dies at 89
Barbara Harris, the first woman to be ordained and consecrated as a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, died on March 13 at a hospice house after a recent hospitalization. She was 89.
...Gwen Ifill honored at historic AME church
In the historic black church where she worshiped, the late journalist Gwen Ifill was remembered with a new Black Heritage stamp in a ceremony featuring dignitaries of the church, politics, and jour...
Trump pledges to prevent ‘unacceptable’ repression of school prayer
President Donald Trump, surrounded by schoolchildren of a variety of faiths, has announced what he called “historic steps to protect the First Amendment right to pray in the public schools.”
...With the closing of the Newseum on December 31, the nation’s capital has one less museum, but the Religious Freedom Center that was housed there will continue operations.
...Delegates to the Union for Reform Judaism’s biennial meeting in Chicago on December 13 voted overwhelmingly to advocate for the creation of a federal commission to study and develop proposals for r...
Walter Kim to lead the National Association of Evangelicals
Scholar and minister Walter Kim, an expert on the theology of race, has been chosen as the next president of the National Association of Evangelicals.
...Is Hinn renouncing prosperity gospel?
Prominent televangelist Benny Hinn has captured headlines recently for seemingly renouncing the prosperity gospel on which he built his ministry.
...Blacks worshiped in own spaces before slavery’s end
On a narrow street in Harlem sits the oldest black church in New York State, one of many black congregations that developed in the decades before slavery ended nationwide and that worked for its ab...
Southern Baptists make changes to address sexual abuse and racism
Billy Graham archives moving in June from Wheaton College to library in North Carolina
After the catastrophic fire at Notre Dame, what might rebuilding look like?
Three black churches in Louisiana, civil rights center in Tennessee burned down
Clergy housing allowance is constitutional, appeals court rules
U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in case about war memorial cross
Southern Baptist leaders address reports showing decades of sexual abuse
White House expands birth control exemptions for employers, schools
White House initiative aims to increase faith groups' presence in government
Black Church Food Security Network brings fresh food to Baltimore
Black liberation theologian James Cone dies at 79
U.S. Assemblies of God elects first woman executive in more than a century
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