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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has designated three churches in Manila, Quezon City, and San Mateo, Rizal as national shrines. In a statement Sunday, the CBCP said that the ...

A public consultation has been launched on plans for a £600 million theme park in north Oxfordshire. Puy du Fou, which currently has a park in Les Epesses, France, and in Toledo, Spain, has ...

On January 13, the Christian church Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) mobilized more than a million of its members in the capital Manila to call for peace and unity. The gathering, which coincided with the ...

The Rev. W. J. Mark Knutson on Sunday night said immigrant Oregonians who are afraid of being deported will have a safe space at Augustana Lutheran Church. Augustana is a sanctuary church ...

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MANILA, Philippines — The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Saturday, January 25, declared three churches across the country as national shrines. The announcement was ...

"I am afraid," said the talkative 63-year-old on Lenin Avenue in Gomel, a town of half a million near where the borders of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia meet. "I want peace," the former electrician ...

“The near-death stuff turbo-fueled all that,” he said. “It made me go, ‘Oh, right, yeah, I could die at any moment.’ I was throwing myself out of planes, taking all sorts of risks.” ...

Officials issued evacuation orders for residents near the Otay Wilderness Area southeast ... the report added. Strong Santa Ana winds were present on Thursday, but they were expected to decrease ...

The Los Angeles Hughes Fire broke out on Thursday (AEDT) and in less than a day charred nearly 41 square kilometres of trees and brush near Castaic Lake, a popular recreation area 64km from the ...

(Chronicle of Philanthropy) — An unusual partnership between a Black Baptist church and a white Presbyterian ... His voice shifts easily from near whisper to a roar, from encouragement to ...