The Rev. Kevin T. Shock will be installed as bishop of the Allegheny Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Saturday, Feb. 7, at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 1000 Scalp Ave., Johnstown. Shock was elected on Nov. 1, 2025, to serve a six-year term as bishop. Prelude music ...
ROME — Call it divine intervention, or maybe just a hasty fix-it job to put an end to days of speculation and scandal. But the end result is that the Angel Meloni is no more. A painting of a cherub with a face bearing a remarkable resemblance to Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni had attracted ...
HAVANA — As tensions rise between the United States and Cuba and the island braces for more economic difficulties, priests and priestesses of the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santeria held several ceremonies on Sunday, offering gifts to deities and asking for peace. Several leading ...
Make & Bake Pizza will be held at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, at Duncansville Evangelical Lutheran Church. This event was rescheduled from last Sunday due to the snow storm. Movie night set “I Can Only Imagine” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, at The Well Ministry Center, 605 ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV told the Vatican’s doctrine office on Thursday to uphold truth, justice and charity when deciding clergy sex abuse cases, confirming a calibrated approach to dealing with a scandal that has tarnished the Catholic Church’s credibility worldwide. History’s first American pope dedicated only a small part of his speech to abuse in an address to members of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office that polices Catholic doctrine but also processes abuse cases worldwide. What Leo didn’t say was almost more significant than what he ...
American religious history is rife with protest movements and civil disobedience. Yet it is rare for political protests to happen inside a house of worship. That is part of what makes the new case against anti-ICE protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, unusual. The group interrupted a service ...
