In an atmosphere of celebration, joy, and devotion, some 25,000 people, including 1,600 children in white robes and traditional costumes who received their first Communion, participated Sunday in the ...

A first Communion Mass at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville, Louisiana, was disrupted May 11 after a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle. Parishioners prevented the young ...

Eleven years have passed since ISIS seized Mosul and the Nineveh towns and with every anniversary commemorated each year, the same question arises: How many Iraqi Christians remain? Despite tensions ...

The pastor of the Abbeville church where a gunman entered the sanctuary Saturday during communion said the congregation was "rocked and shaken" by the indicent in which nobody was injured. "Our ...

A teenager armed with a gun walked through the door of a Roman Catholic church in Abbeville, La., but was confronted by parishioners who led him outside. Sixty children were in the church for a first ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Scores of Staten Island Catholic school students on Saturday received, for the first time, the sacrament of Holy Communion. Both Holy Rosary R.C. Church, South Beach, and St.

Today is Monday, March 31, the 90th day of 2025. There are 275 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On March 31, 1968, at the conclusion of a ...