Antiochian & Middle Eastern

1+ hour, 46+ min ago   (169+ words) A La Crosse bishop is celebrating five decades of ordained ministry as a pastor, missionary, and advocate for persecuted Christians. Bishop Patrick Augustine has traveled around the world and met with different leaders, prime ministers and kings to bring them…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (705+ words) A devastating wave is crashing over South Asia, wreaking havoc on those who choose to follow a faith other than the majority. It is a wave of anti-Christian sentiment. So-called “Freedom of Religion” and “Anti-Blasphemy” laws fuel it, generating a…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (311+ words) The Citizen Sundays Kwa-Thema Paradise Youth Corporation will meet at 14:45 at 10395 Kapari Str Geduld in Kwa-Thema Contact Mpho Monnakgotla on 073 759 7759 The General Ethiopian Methodist Church of SA at 7698 Jack Msiza Street Ext5 Langaville holds their church service on Sunday from 11:00 to…...

38+ min ago   (194+ words) A Dubuque church will host a lecture on the patron saint of Iowa and display some of that saint’s relics later this month. Veneration of the relics of St. Cessian, an 8-year-old boy who was martyred in Rome during…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (585+ words) Peter’s question is one of the most human questions in all of Scripture: “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive? As many as seven times?” (Mt 18:21). Peter probably thought he was being generous. Yet Jesus…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago   (21+ words) Gaston Gazette HopeFEST returns to First United Methodist Church in Gastonia...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago   (412+ words) We planted an apple tree in our back garden three years ago. We have tended it and trimmed it a little, doing our best to keep an eye on it. It has grown a few feet since we put it…...

9+ hour, 7+ min ago   (691+ words) POTTSVILLE — Pottsville was booming in the 1820s, following the discovery of coal on Broad Mountain about 30 years earlier. The opening of the Schuylkill Canal in 1825 sparked what’s been described as the “Coal Rush,” an influx of investors, merchants and immigrant miners…...

7+ hour, 20+ min ago   (436+ words) by Gloria Ruth Finney MACON, Ga. (WGXA) — In Macon’s historic Bellevue community, the death of the Rev. Oliver Pitts is being felt as the loss of a steady force in a neighborhood built on faith, family and deep roots. Bellevue,…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago   (327+ words) Wales has welcomed its first female Bishop of Bangor following a historic consecration service. The Rt Revd Dr Manon Ceridwen James was ordained at St Woolos Cathedral in Newport, becoming the 82nd Bishop of Bangor and the first woman to hold…...