Christianity

IKITSUKI ISLAND/NAGASAKI CITY, Japan (Reuters) - His face weathered from years at sea, kimono-clad Japanese fisherman Masaichi Kawasaki kneels before an altar adorned with images of the Virgin Mary, crossing himself as he softly intones chants handed down thr…

One good thing about the Trump administration? The entire country is getting a closer look at the worst people Christianity has to offer. Last night, Samantha Bee took a look at Trump’s “spiritual adviser” Paula White, now the administration’s head of the Fa…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Prosecutors who want a teen to serve a lifelong prison sentence for killing a first-grader on a South Carolina school playground showed a judge cellphone videos and messages Tuesday that they say demonstrate he planned the crime. Jesse Os…

Marching under the symbol of a fist clutching a rosary that some have compared to a white power icon, tens of thousands of Poles showed up for an annual Independence Day rally convened by far-right groups in Warsaw Monday. Organizers described this years ma…

Donald Trump, Jr. ended a book event after his own supporters heckled him for not taking questions. The president's son and his girlfriend, former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle, ventured to the University of California on Sunday to promote his book…

During last month’s Democratic presidential debate, the Freedom From Religion Foundation aired a commercial featuring Ron Reagan. The son of the former president said hes a lifelong atheist, not afraid of burning in hell.” Even though that ad’s been around …

Christians are called to be witnesses of Christ to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). In our day, the ends of the earth are moving into our neighborhoods at least for those of us in America and Europe. Muslims are emigrating to our cities in record numbers. Ma…

Three women and six children died after drug cartel gunmen ambushed their three vehicles in a mountainous area of Sonora, Mexico, authorities said. USA TODAY MEXICO CITY -- While successfully campaigning across the country last year, Mexican President Andr…

You would think a public high school would at least try to hide its overt Christianity, and yet this is the locker room at Letcher County Central High School in Whitesburg, Kentucky: The sign says But the Lord is with me like a Mighty Warrior. Jeremiah 20:11…

JoAnna Wood was in fifth grade when her class watched the movie of The Indian in the Cupboard. At one point in the 1995 film, a cowboy calls an Indian a savage. Her fellow students cracked up. “I didn’t think it was funny,” says Wood, 12, who is a member…