Christianity

NAGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese Christians lined up before dawn on Sunday to get seats at a Mass being said by Pope Francis in Nagasaki, where 27,000 people were killed instantly when the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan, effectively e…

TOKYO (AP) Pope Francis denounced the evil of nuclear weapons on Saturday as he began a three-day visit to Japan and fulfilled a dream to be a missionary in a land with a rich but bloody Christian past. The popes plane landed in the rain in Tokyo, where he r…

On campus on Friday, students were still talking about the controversy, even as many packed up for a week of vacation that runs through Thanksgiving. Selena Drake, a senior studying law and public policy, said she understood that speech needed to be protected…

Last month, Rev. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, an Episcopal priest, was named the new President and CEO of the National Abortion Federation. She has long been a champion of reproductive rights in the religious community. That doesn’t sit well with right-wing a…

Grim surveys about decline of Christianity in USA, Italy

By Philip Pullella BANGKOK (Reuters) - Pope Francis paid tribute on Friday to Catholics in Thailand who suffered or were killed for their faith in the past and urged today's Thais not to consider Christianity a "foreign" religion. The pope was on his last f…

Ben Affleck (Argo, The Town) is getting behind the camera for a new movie called King Leopold’s Ghost, a true story of rebellion against genocide in the Congo in the late 1800s. Affleck will produce alongside Martin Scorsese, and the script will be written by…

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The fact that antisemitism has infected the body of the Church is something of which we as Christians must be deeply repentant, he added.  In an afterword published by the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis - which the Church of  England describes as honest and chal…

David Bazan is crying while driving. Many scenes in the new documentary Strange Negotiations find the once and future Pedro The Lion frontman alone, steering his sedan down endless highways between emotionally taxing house shows. In this one, he reaches his b…