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Redemption Fellowship Church
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Redemption Fellowship Church

Houses of God |  Fall River, Mass.

SPRINGING UP: A worship service at New Life Covenant in Chicago.
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Growth spurt

Religion |  More Hispanics are filling Protestant pews

‘IT CAN’T BE ABOUT ME.’  —Bethany Jenkins, in Central Park
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The Word on the street

Religion |  New Yorker Bethany Jenkins jumped the corporate ship to write an email devotional that is catching on with the professional class

The oldest known Torah scroll.

Italian professor discovers oldest known Torah scroll

Religion |  An Italian professor and expert in Hebrew has stumbled upon what appears to be the world’s oldest known Torah scroll. Mauro Perani said a sheepskin scroll,

Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey

Midday Roundup: Obama to nominate former Bush official to head FBI

Newsworthy |  New director? President Barack Obama plans to nominate former Bush administration official James Comey to head the FBI. Comey served as second in command in…

Fred Phelps Jr., of Topeka, Kansas., with the Westboro Baptist Church holds a sign in front of the Supreme Court in Washington.

Signs and Wonders: Hacker gives Westboro a taste of its own protest

Newsworthy |  Hactivist hates Phelps. Westboro Baptist Church is infamous for seeking publicity in the wake of national tragedies, which it often says are punishments from…

Fight over commencement prayers never graduates

Fight over commencement prayers never graduates

Religious Liberty |  As the school year reaches an end, the warm summer afternoons are filled with students walking onstage to pick up their diplomas, and the nightly news is…

Bronx Household of Faith co-pastor Robert Hall in front of P.S. 15 in the Bronx.

Get churches out of public schools?

Religion |  The New York City Council last Wednesday voted 38-11 to ask the state legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to approve legislation to permit religious services to…

Nick Vujicic in Vietnam

Christian preacher gets rock star reception in Communist Vietnam

Religion |  Thousands of Vietnamese filled the soccer stadium in their Communist-ruled country, and millions more watched from home, as an Australian evangelical preacher…

Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin

Signs and Wonders: Gay marriage advocates fight the battle to lose the war on immigration reform

Newsworthy |  Silly me. Earlier this week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., tried to tack on an amendment to the immigration bill that would allow…

Arizona state Rep. Steve Smith

‘Dear God’ do-over

Religion |  When an atheist lawmaker offered the daily prayer—if it can even be called that—at the Arizona House of Representatives, a Christian lawmaker demanded a…

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral.

Motherland mores

Religion |  U.K. same-sex marriage vote coincides with a national decline in Christianity

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