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Why local congregations should embrace the music and prayers of other church traditions. As a child, I attended a Catholic parish with my mom, my grandmother, and eventually my whole family. Then, ...

When they answered their call to the ministry, co-pastors Laurel and Colin Mathewson could never have anticipated what happened next — and how it influenced their Christmas celebrations. On Christmas ...

As head of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J., shared his views on this newly created entity during an interview with America ...

When James Lee met with a core group of people to start a new church, the group began by reading the book of Acts, recalling how the Holy Spirit visited that other small gathering of disciples 2,000 ...

This Sunday, the Rev. Rafael Rodriguez will look out at parishioners lining the pews of St. Michael Catholic Church and see the themes of Easter reflected back at him. St. Michael, Milwaukee’s most ...

Volunteers serve food for needy families every day in the basement of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Elgin. A startlingly multicultural collection of local churches and civic groups use the kitchen ...

More than a third of Australian churchgoers were born overseas, according to the latest National Church Life Survey report. Featuring data from more than 280,000 church attendees, it's the largest ...