Religion
Conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church unveiled plans Monday to form a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church, with a doctrine that d...
by The Associated Press - March 2, 2021Stately and deliberate, with a distinctive white streak in his black hair, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith started his Valentine's Day sermon at Shiloh Baptis...
by ASHRAF KHALIL AND HILARY POWELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - February 27, 2021After 3½ years living inside a Missouri church to avoid deportation, Honduran immigrant Alex Garcia finally stepped outside Wednesday, after a promise from P...
by JIM SALTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - February 27, 2021Nasser Banyameen speaks about his hometown of Qaraqosh in the historical heartland of Iraqi Christianity with nostalgia. Before Islamic State group fighters ...
by MARIAM FAM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - February 27, 2021ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SERVICES
by Francisca Jones - February 27, 2021Year after year, the Lion's Club sets up wire-frame Christmas decorations on the lawn of the historic Jackson County courthouse, facing Main Street in Browns...
by TERRY MATTINGLY - February 27, 2021As the fifth attendee of the once 44-person congregation trickles into the Zoom call, James Bryan, a reverend at Bethel Deaf Fellowship, pins his video and s...
by ABBY ZIMMARDI SPECIAL TO NWA DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE - February 27, 2021Benton County
February 27, 2021In our congregation this season of Lent, we have a theme: "Again & Again." It's a complete curriculum of sorts produced by Sanctified Art, and includes a dev...
by Sara Milford - February 27, 2021N.Y. officers cleared in custody death
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - February 24, 2021The Rev. Jose Luis Garayoa survived typhoid fever, malaria, a kidnapping and the Ebola crisis as a missionary in Sierra Leone, only to die of covid-19 after ...
February 22, 2021Inside the temple in the borough of Queens, monks clad in maroon robes chanted and lit incense and candles at an altar before a golden statue of Buddha.
by LUIS ANDRES HENAO AND JESSIE WARDARSKI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - February 20, 2021A Polish judge has ordered two Holocaust scholars to issue a public apology for including "inaccurate information" in a two-volume academic study that delved...
by ANDREW HIGGINS THE NEW YORK TIMES - February 20, 2021Halfway between Norway and the North Pole, scientists have buried a million seeds and crop samples under a mountain in the Svalbard archipelago -- in case an...
by TERRY MATTINGLY - February 20, 2021Editor's note: This column was originally published Feb. 11.
by JOHN STONESTREET AND TIMOTHY D. PADGETT BREAKPOINT - February 20, 2021