Faith

LOURDES, France–People must accept death at “the hour chosen by God,” Pope Benedict XVI told ailing pilgrims Monday in an anti-euthanasia message at Lourdes, the shrine that draws the desperate, sick and dying. At the chilly open-air ser

URBANA, Ill.–A Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus has been suspended after being charged with selling cocaine from his church office and rectory.

BELLEVILLE, Ill.–The Roman Catholic bishop of Belleville is apologizing for the sexual abuse scandal that has plagued the church for several years.

The legendary acclaimed gospel quartet group, the Soul Stirrers have reunited for a “Soul Stirring Reunion!” Say the name Soul Stirrers and immediately the name Sam Cooke comes to mind. “Once you are a Soul Stirrer you are always a Soul

“Jesus won’t you please have mercy...I’m so weak and you’re strong, take me by the hand and lead me on…have mercy…I’ll speak your name, oh Lord, hear me calling …help me from falling…help ease my p

DOTHAN, Ala.-Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to move to his corner of the Bible Belt. Blumberg is chairman of an organization offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to Dothan, an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 that

VALLEY CITY, N.D.–Carol Umsted got more than the word of God during services this summer at the Congregational United Church of Christ of Valley City. She also got $50 worth of free gas, thanks to winning a raffle.

Gospel music continues to grow by leaps and bounds as the “good news” music gracefully reaches higher echelons. Well, gospel music lovers and artists certainly have a reason to celebrate the Gospel Music Channel as it launches National Gospel

As members of the faith community prepared for a boycott of public schools starting Tuesday, the first day of the school year, Chicago Public Schools officials went on the stump in pulpits at several South and West Side churches urging kids to attend the

PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y.–A New York pastor says one of his congregants donated a winning lottery ticket worth $3 million to his church. Pastor Bertrand Crabbe of the True North Community Church in Port Jefferson says the donor, who asked to remain anony