The modern pop culture Santa evolved from stories about Bishop Nicholas of Myra, who lived in what is now Turkey and was revered for centuries because of his selfless generosity, good deeds and love of others, especially children.
Attorneys representing an Atlanta megachurch have filed a lawsuit alleging the bank and investors group that financed its property engaged in predatory..
Members of Bethel — the 11,000-member northern California megachurch famous for elaborate healing services, Bethel Music and musician Sean Feucht’s nationwide worship protests against COVID restrictions — now hold the majority on the Redding City Council after November’s elections, according to nearly complete vote counts
Russian forces have seized many religious leaders of a variety of religious communities. In most of these cases, however, it remains unclear if places of worship or religious leaders were targeted to specifically punish the exercise of the freedom of religion or belief.
90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen was found guilty on charges relating to his role in a relief fund used by members of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protest movement.
An art show displays 25 glass works by 13 different artists built around the shards McDonald, an Episcopal priest, collected from the destroyed churches, synagogues and chapels he visited in England, France, Holland, Belgium and Germany in 1944 and 1945.