Gonzaga (the saint) and Gonzaga (the basketball team) are two different things. Nonetheless, the patron saint of Christian youth (who also died in a pandemic) can help inspire the school to capture its first national championship.
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As Christians all over the world entered Holy Week, a pair of exclusive, high-priced athletic shoes emblazoned with a pentagram and made with drops of human blood sold out in less than a minute. Singer Lil Nas X created the “Satan shoes” with the company MSCHF to coincide with the drop of his newest music video that features him giving Satan a lap dance. The backlash has sparked a conversation about LGBTQ people leaving Christianity or feeling hurt by Christians and also sparked a lawsuit from Nike.
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Nationwide, some congregations across the country are reopening for the first time during Holy Week 2021. But pastors say that reopening their congregation is much more than simply cleaning up and unlocking the doors of the church. Their congregations are emotionally rocked and feeling the effects of disconnection.
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Kanakuk Ministries is one of the largest Christian camps in the United States. An analysis of new financial statements reveals that founder Joe White and his wife Debbie-Jo were paid $2.6 million by Kanakuk from 2014-2017.
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Religious non-profits lost 10% of their workforce during the pandemic, according to a recent report. Faith-based groups like the Logan Baptist Church daycare and Convoy of Hope say PPP loans allowed them to keep serving essential workers and people in need.
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Worldwide, more than 2.6 million deaths have been attributed to COVID-19. Christians are reflecting on the loss of their family members and loved ones to the virus. “This is an opportunity for the church to mourn with those who mourn. And there are a lot of people mourning,” said one pastor in Ohio.
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This year’s Passover, the annual Jewish holiday, will offer families the chance to reflect on the hardships of the previous year. It also prioritizes looking with hope to the future.
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The government of Mozambique claims that religious fundamentalism rather than its own failures is the primary cause of a fast-escalating conflict that has killed over 2,500 people and displaced another 700,000. In March, the U.S. began training Mozambique defense forces in counter terrorism. But some journalists, researchers and clergy on the ground say that this narrative only serves the authoritarian government, accused of torturing and killing critics.
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Since 2013, the Christian Culinary Academy has flourished in an artsy coastal getaway, barely two hours away from Portland, sometimes called America’s best food city. The program is part of Christian Chefs International, a 23-year-old organization of 2,000 members having its annual conference this week in Cannon Beach.
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It’s clear, thanks to COVID-19, that the church is not a building. In a post-pandemic world, some ask: Why have a building at all?
Franciscans in the Holy Land, a Catholic order that’s preserved Christian sites in Jerusalem since the Middle Ages, have celebrated Lent for years by following the path step by step that Jesus may have taken nearly 2,000 years ago on his 40-day fasting journey through the Judean Desert.
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Asma Uddin, a religious liberty lawyer and a fellow at the Aspen Institute, writes in her new book The Politics of Vulnerability about how American Muslims and conservative Christians can engage better to protect their religious freedoms.
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Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli died of a heart attack on March 17 after frequently citing prayer as the best way to ward off the coronavirus. His political opponents are claiming he died of COVID-19, there is not evidence of that claim.
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(ANALYSIS) Medieval imagery has been on display repeatedly at far-right rallies and riots. Conspiracy theorists may love to use the symbols, but they fundamentally misunderstand the Byzantine Empire.
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After 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long shot and killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, the church Long was baptized in and other Atlanta-area faith leaders have spoken out about the murders and the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mainstream, high fashion magazines are uncharted territory for nearly all faith-based brands. But Natasha Lambkin successfully sold N A T A S H A in New York City show rooms and among celebrity stylists. Then Vogue Italia and Elle Arabia featured her designs. "God gave me the vision,” Lambkin said. “I knew something was going to happen. I just didn't know when."
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The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Mar. 16 that more Dead Sea Scrolls — among other relics — were found in a cave in the Judean Desert. The fragments contain passages from Zechariah and Nahum, among other books.
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The debate over whether the Equality Act would simply extend needed protections to LGBTQ Americans or also discriminate against women, girls and public-facing religious organizations has divided even faith leaders, pitting LGBTQ rights against religious freedom.
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An ecumenical group of church leaders broadcast their vaccinations after an interfaith service where White House officials joined clergy from the around the nation’s Capitol area to encourage others to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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The Uganda government’s suspension of a Western-funded grant has left the survival of more than 70 organizations, including 15 state agencies, hanging in the balance. The trouble between President Yoweri Museveni and the EU started in 2020 when Museveni suspected the West of backing his rivals. Then several Western countries criticized Uganda for falling short of required standards for a free and fair election.
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