Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington on April 23, 2021. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice…
Nathaniel “Pee Wee” Lee sits outside his home in Chapel Hill, N.C., on May 23. The Rev. Lisa G. Fishbeck led the Episcopal Church of the Advocate when it added…
Bergman says being with the hurt, broken is his calling
Dresses donated by sexual assault survivors from Amish and other plain-dressing religious groups hang on a clothesline beneath a description of each survivor’s age and church affiliation, on April 29,…
Project was last requirement to earn Stars and Stripes Award for 17-year-old Nadine Drake
Gun rights supporters stand outside the Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 19, 2013, during a Guns Across America rally. The nationwide rally was in support of the Second Amendment and…
State Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, a Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, takes part in a primary night election gathering in Chambersburg, Pa., on May 17. (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press file)Carolyn…
Jules Woodson, center, of Colorado Springs is comforted by her boyfriend, Ben Smith, left, and Christa Brown on June 11, 2019, during a demonstration outside the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual…
The Rev. Jo Laurence, a Buddhist chaplain, poses for a photo on April 22 in the garden of a memory care facility in Portland, Ore., before visiting hospice patients to…
of Christ on Florida Mesa is tax-exempt, but rules apply when it comes to politicking
Rabbi Stephen Einstein, left, founding rabbi of Congregation B’nai Tzedek in Fountain Valley, Calif., stands with the Rev. Sarah Halverson-Cano, senior pastor of Irvine United Congregational Church in Irvine, Calif.,…
Sister Anthonia Ugwu, left, and Sister Mary Ngina, both nuns with the Oblate Sisters of Providence, joke with each other as they pose for a portrait in the chapel at…
Joe Kennedy, a former assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Wash., poses for a photo March 9, 2022, at the school’s football field. After losing his coaching…
Students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska, are seen in summer 1883. U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th…
A Ukrainian family arrives at a shelter April 1 at the Christian church Calvary San Diego after crossing into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, in Chula Vista, Calif. As…
Julia Entin sits at her computer in her backyard coordinating efforts to rescue Holocaust survivors in Ukraine on March 14 in Los Angeles. (Richard Vogel/Associated Press)Richard Vogel LOS ANGELES –…
Dmitrii and Nellia Antsybor, who are from Russia and sought asylum in the United States in 2021, pose for a photo Feb. 28 at the home where they are living…
David La'O Ball, organist and head of music ministry at Christ Cathedral, stands by the Hazel Wright organ in Garden Grove, Calif., on Feb. 15, 2022. Nearly a decade and…
Christine Zuba poses for a portrait at her home in Blackwood, N.J., on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. After coming out as a transgender woman at age 58, Zuba, a lifelong…
The Rev. Andres Arango, right, with Andrea Reyes, during a baptism in the Jordan River, in Israel, in July 2017. Reyes, a lifelong St. Gregory parishioner, became friends with Arango…
Students enter the first new Catholic school built in Baltimore in about 60 years on Aug. 30, 2021, named after Mother Mary Lange, who started a Catholic school for Black…
Students at Piedra Vista High School will be learning outside the classroom and online for the next two weeks.Associated Press file In America, the demographic circumstances of a child’s birth…
The Ministry of Brewing is housed in what was once St. Michael the Archangel Church in Baltimore. The church reopened to the public as a brewery in January 2020, featuring…
Church of the Incarnation is shown, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, in Minneapolis, where residents could pick up coats, sweaters and frozen chicken. With attendance dwindling, historic urban churches built in…
Pastor D.J. Soto, the lead pastor of VR Church, delivers a sermon in his home Jan. 23 in Fredericksburg, Va. Soto sings, preaches and performs digital baptisms in the metaverse…
Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who helped pioneer the concept of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, died at age 95 on Jan. 22.…
A “For Sale” sign is posted in front of the Biltmore United Methodist Church in Asheville, N.C. Already financially strapped because of shrinking membership and a struggling preschool, the congregation…
There are three flagpoles outside Boston City Hall. One flies the United States flag. Another flies the Massachusetts state flag. What can – and can’t – fly from the third…
Multi-immersion teacher Randilynn Boucher-Giago leads a lesson about boarding school history Sept. 29, 2021, in Pine Ridge, S.D. The lesson, Boucher-Giago says, aims to teach students about what many of…
Neylan McBaine poses for a portrait at her home Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Holladay, Utah. McBaine, a lifelong Latter-day Saint and the author of the book “Women at Church:…
