The last time the Catholic church here faced an existential threat was on New Year’s Eve 1935, when the church was set ablaze ...

Many of us fondly recall the regular assemblies filled with enthusiastic singing sessions. Teachers would whip out hymn books ...

Sri Lankan pilgrims recently honored Fr. Jacome Gonsalves, a Divar priest, at a special mass in Goa. Gonsalves, known as the "Father of Catholic Literature in Sri Lanka," served as a missionary ...

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Even still, encounters between 19th-century Methodist circuit riders and Baptist farmer preachers ... Comparing the Baptist religion to an old horseshoe, Early continued, “Heat it and push it into the ...

We opened with the old hymn that starts with the words, "We Gather Together." I don't remember knowing the song before then, but on its opening chords alone, I have smiled every time I've heard ...

The Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church was built on the property in 1910 and has been home to Smithtown's only historically Black church for more than a century, providing them with ...

For the 27-year-old copy editor, getting to watch the two-part film felt like “finally being introduced to the most memed movie in Indian pop culture” as he found himself commuting for three ...

After preaching to a small group of followers in Old Town, Duke noted in his journal that he “formed them into a society.” Since then, Trinity United Methodist Church has ... Sing,” two of the most ...