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Rusk Gathers to Pray After a Year of Turmoil at City Hall
After losing its police chief, city manager and mayor in one year, Rusk held a community prayer service as new leaders promise to fix the city's finances.
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More Than 1,200 Poll Chaplains Will Stand Outside Voting Sites Tuesday. Peacemakers Must Keep Their Hands Off the Scale.
Faith leaders in nine states will serve as poll chaplains on Tuesday. Organizers say the effort is nonpartisan, though most participating groups are moderate or progressive.
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Most Pastors Say the Economy Is Hurting Their Churches. A Squeezed Church Is Still a Giving Church.
Most U.S. Protestant pastors say the economy is hurting their churches, and giving is not keeping pace with inflation, a new Lifeway Research survey finds.
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A Methodist Pastor Leads in Kansas as Trump Returns for Marshall. A Pastor's Doctrine Is Fair Game, so Tell the Truth About It.
Pastor Adam Hamilton leads Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas polls as Trump plans a Sunday rally in Salina. Marshall says Hamilton split the Methodist church; the facts are more complicated.
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Supreme Court to Hear Catholic Preschools' Fight With Colorado. Faithful Parents Should Not Pay a Price for Their Faith.
The Supreme Court hears arguments Nov. 3 on whether Colorado must give Catholic preschools a religious exemption so their families can share in the state's free universal preschool program.
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Pope Leo XIV Becomes the First Pope to Vote in a U.S. Election. Christians Should Follow Him to the Ballot Box.
The Holy See Press Office confirmed Pope Leo XIV, an American citizen registered in Illinois, submitted a mail-in ballot in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, a first for any pope.
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Virginia Pastor Sues to Block Amendment Removing Marriage Definition From State Constitution. Hold the Line, With Grace.
Virginia's Question 2 would replace the constitution's definition of marriage. Pastor Ben Purves has sued, arguing required courthouse postings were never made.
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All Saints' Day Is Nov. 1. Born in an Age of Martyrs, It Still Calls Christians to Run the Race.
All Saints' Day falls on Sunday, Nov. 1. Here is how the feast began in the age of Roman persecution and how it came to be observed on Nov. 1.
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Two Catholic Bishops Regret White House Prayer Photo With Trump. Pray for Rulers, but Never Become a Prop.
Two bishops who prayed with President Trump on Oct. 22 say the White House released photos and video without permission and turned the meeting into a political moment.
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Praha's Painted Church Has Drawn the Faithful for Generations
St. Mary's Church of the Assumption in tiny Praha is perhaps the best-known of Texas's painted churches. Here is the story of the Bohemian parish and the Swiss painter behind it.
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Churches Will Pray for the Persecuted on Nov. 1 and 8. Thirty Years On, Remember Them as Bound With Them.
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church marks 30 years on Nov. 1 and 8 under the theme "Do You Know Our Suffering?"