The restored Michigan Street Baptist Church symbolizes resilience, equality, and history. A crucial Underground Railroad stop ...

Shirley MacFarland’s weekly community column featuring news and notes from Brecksville, Broadview Heights, North Royalton and ...

A Catholic church has recently been built ... which is under the protection of the Baptism Site Commission. According to the Gospel (John 1:28), this is “Bethany Beyond the Jordan, where ...

Ruth Hetland's ConseCrate subscription box service has garnered 500-plus subscribers and also led to the creation of a ...

A boy plays in the snow during Siberia's notoriously cold winter. Far from Kremlin leaders in Moscow and the frontlines of ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins January 18. How was the ecumenical movement born? What have been its major advances? A look back at the history of the rapprochement of Christians which, ...

David Tudor (l), who has now been banned for life from the Church of England, was pictured talking to Stephen Cottrell, then Bishop of Chelmsford, in 2014 A woman who says she was sexually abused ...

As Christians we know God is the One who creates the Church on earth. In the waters of our Baptism, God re-created us and made us His “new creation” (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:17), “a chosen race, a royal ...

The same will happen at the Baptism site; that is particularly symbolic. The Church is full of images that evoke Jesus Christ’s life and ministry and the core teachings of the Church.

The new church, one of the largest Catholic churches in the Middle East, commemorates the place where the public ministry of Jesus began. “This place, which is the holy place of the baptism of ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

Representing Pope Francis, the top Vatican diplomat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin inaugurated and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known in the Bible as Bethany Beyond ...