This will be my first Christmas without my father, Eric Cooray, who passed away three months ago. Life has felt strange since ...

“We pray for all who have left this life, with the firm hope that they will receive great relief from the prayers offered on their behalf,” he added, referencing a catechesis from St. Cyril of ...

This year, he entrusted prayers to those parents who experienced the “incredibly intense” pain of losing a son or daughter. “When one spouse loses the other, they are a widower or a widow.

The Jewish High Holy Days weighed heavily upon me. On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, my eyes fixed on the Hebrew text of my ...

The Tikvah Forum for Families of Hostages held prayers at Rachel’s Tomb just outside Bethlehem on Tuesday for the safe and speedy return of their children from the Gaza Strip. The Bnei Rachel Yeshiva ...

You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fountain of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, cover the whole world and ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — At the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women Inc., about midway along Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, the Revs. Barbara ...

Photo: Shen Hong/Xinhua via ZUMA Press/AFP via Getty Images During weekly Shabbat services at my synagogue, we recite a prayer for the well-being of the United States and for the leaders who ...

They also shared the specific Bible verses and personally created prayers they turn to for comfort and to ease worries. Troy A. Miller, president and CEO of National Religious Broadcasters ...

What can we do when we don’t know what to do? We can pray. Prayer requires no formal religious observance. You need not attend a temple or church or synagogue or mosque. Prayer need not be a ...

ELKTON — Saying the event has no focus on a political party, The Rev. Benjamin Eller, pastor of Pine Grove Church, invites the public to join his congregation in a time or pre-election day ...