This Advent season, a leading expert on Christian persecution around the world and religious freedom issues weighed in on how to stay rooted in faith and key values — and how to remain focused on the ...

On a crisp December morning in Rome, a group of women gathered not for their usual Bible study but to bring Christmas gifts to a homeless shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded ...

Revs. Dr. Alisha Lola Jones and Calvin Taylor Skinner delve into the significance of Advent and Christmas in the African-American experience. “Notes on faith” is theGrio’s inspirational, ...

(RNS) — Advent is supposed to be a time of anticipation and hope, but the threat of global warming brings me anxiety and fear. Scientists for decades have warned us that global warming is real and ...

In a world where wars, turbulence and insecurity rage in numerous locales, the Advent season is a time of stillness and contemplation, of silence and the hope for new birth. "For those in the ...

All is not well with the world and the whole creation groans in agony. Disease, immorality, murder, despair, pollution, prejudice, hatred, division, laziness, poverty, tyranny, confusion, greed, ...

For Christians, the season of Advent, the four Sundays leading up to Christmas, is the season of hope and anticipation. It is a glorious time, one seemingly at odds with the calendar itself because it ...

"An Unlikely Advent" at Gary United Methodist Church in Wheaton focuses on the experiences of four sets of often-overlooked characters in the Nativity story. Carey Williams Bebar will lead this Advent ...

As the calendar dictates this year, the afterglow of Thanksgiving is still burning bright as many turn their attention to religious observances that are both different and akin. This year, the Jewish ...

Advent: the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event. Hope: a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. We hope and wait for a lot of things. We hope today is better than ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Hope Villages of America has launched a unique way to help others in the community this season with a “reverse advent calendar.” Instead of receiving something in the days leading ...

Advent is supposed to be a time of anticipation and hope, but the threat of global warming brings me anxiety and fear. Scientists for decades have warned us that climate change is real and that it ...