Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the early days of the Republic on an official mission for the French department of the interior to study the US penitentiary system. What he discovered as he traveled […]
While the Supreme Court is used to seeing Catholics, who make up six of the nine current justices, the Oval Office has just its second Catholic in President Joe Biden. Catholics, including here in North […]
RALEIGH — On the first Christmas, the Holy Family was turned away from the inn for not having reservations, and it looks like in 2020, many North Carolinians without reservations this Christmas will likewise find […]
After expressing condolences over the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Trump made clear he would nominate someone to replace her. Senate Republican leaders vowed that Trump’s nominee would receive a vote […]
RALEIGH — Christians across North Carolina and around the world celebrated this Easter season with unfamiliar restrictions on their activity, traditions and services. The restrictions were often seen as necessary sacrifices, but some of the […]
Beijing — For decades, the Uighur imam was a bedrock of his farming community in China’s far west. On Fridays, he preached Islam as a religion of peace. On Sundays, he treated the sick with […]
RALEIGH — In the final days of 2019, key leaders of the United Methodist Church released a proposal laying out the details of a solution to the denomination’s long battle over how to define their […]
The week of Passover and Easter is a good time to reflect on what a gift our founders gave us in America when it comes to freedom of religion. Before America, people in a nation […]
DURHAM — Last week a global conference of delegates from the United Methodist Church met in a called special session to determine the denomination’s path forward on gay marriage and clergy after recent years of […]
ALIAGA, Turkey — A Turkish court on Friday convicted Montreat, N.C. pastor Andrew Brunson of terror charges but released him from house arrest and allowed him to leave Turkey, a move that’s likely to ease […]
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