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Berliners are rediscovering their faith outdoors through local pilgrimages

Around Berlin, Christian pilgrimage walks led by various organizations are open to locals and visitors nearly every week

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An interfaith group’s 1950s MLK comic book remains a prominent nonviolence teaching tool

“Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story” continues to be a nonviolence teaching tool and an influential historical account in the United States and worldwide

The Independent UK

‘We don’t get to discriminate’: How a Raleigh ministry decided to help resettle Afrikaners

Marc Wyatt, director of Welcome House Raleigh, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, received a call recently from the North Carolina field office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants asking if he could help furnish two apartments for three newly arrived refugees, among the…

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New York Narratives tour centers Muslim experiences, history in the city

In 2023, Asad Dandia created New York Narratives, a walking tour company that offers tours through New York’s Muslim neighborhoods

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With fewer ordinations, seminaries find ways to serve young professionals in other fields

In recent years, many U.S. seminaries have faced existential threats fueled by COVID-19 and a changing religious landscape

The Independent UK

Churches hope to tap the power of pickleball

Millions of Americans have embraced pickleball – touting its health and social benefits as a way to have fun while getting exercise

The Independent UK

Spiritual adviser to man executed by firing squad: 'We're more than the worst thing we've done.'

When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina, it was the first time in 15 years that an execution in the United States had been carried out by a firing squad

The Independent UK

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What goes on in a Christian Science reading room?

In nearly every major American city and in many small towns, Christian Science reading rooms are found mixed in with storefronts

The Independent UK

Hindu devotional singing is having a moment

According to Grammy Award-winner Chandrika Tandon and other devotional musicians, the melodic repetition of Vedic mantras, often associated with the many names of the tradition’s various deities, has proved to calm the mind for centuries

The Independent UK

Rejected elsewhere, these LGBTQ Jews find love and acceptance in the Connecticut woods

In the scenic foothills of the Berkshire Mountains at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, a group of 96 queer Orthodox Jews recently came together to celebrate Shabbat, pray, sing, cry and share stories

The Independent UK

Their kinship sealed by fire, St. John the Divine brings Notre Dame to life in exhibition

The Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan is hosting an exhibition on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, revisiting its 850-year history using augmented reality

The Independent UK

On Gita Jayanti, Hare Krishnas celebrate the birth of the sacred text Bhagavad Gita

Dec. 11 marked Gita Jayanti, the day that many Hindus believe Lord Krishna spoke the words of the holy Bhagavad Gita to warrior prince Arjuna more than 5,000 years ago

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Sean Rowe wants to realign the Episcopal Church

Sean Rowe, the newly installed presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, knows a thing or two about austerity

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After exiting the Christian music industry, these artists engage religion on their terms

In the last two decades, several Contemporary Christian Music powerhouses have publicly exited the CCM industry

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From the steppes with shamanism: The Hu makes hits with praises to the sky deity

An eight-man heavy metal band from Mongolia known as The Hu has done what few thought could happen in the 21st century: Create a new genre of folk-metal music

The Independent UK

'Not an act of God.' How the Rev. Richard Joyner became a farmer, then a climate activist

Rev. Richard Joyner, a 71-year-old pastor, has turned into a climate change activist after the farm he started out of his small Baptist church flooded during Hurricane Helene

The Independent UK

Faith-based environmental groups take on fossil fuels as 'a sacred duty'

Over the summer, faith-based environmental groups took part in the Summer of Heat, a campaign that organized more than 40 protests at Citigroup investment bank’s headquarters in Lower Manhattan, condemning the bank’s financing of fossil fuel projects

The Independent UK

In Helene's and Milton's wake, faith-based disaster relief groups prepare for the long haul

Members of Biltmore Church in Asheville, North Carolina, are among those delivering relief to their neighbors affected by Hurricane Helene, despite grieving their own losses of loved ones, homes and livelihoods

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Bring your pets to church, Haitian immigrant priest tells worshippers. 'I am not going to eat them.'

A New Hampshire pastor turned an annual blessing of the animals into a chance to debunk viral conspiracy theories about migrants in Ohio

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After a slew of controversies, the SBC turns to a low-key leader to keep things cool

Clint Pressley, 55, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is a hard-working pastor of North Carolina’s fifth-largest Baptist church with two large campuses in suburban Charlotte

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Proms at the Glasshouse review – Rakei proves ripe for orchestration

The weekend’s mini Proms festival in Gateshead ranged widely from Star Wars to Sibelius, with the electro soul of Jordan Rakei an undoubted highlight

Evening Standard

Why the CrowdStrike Microsoft tech crash reveals the need for clearer City scheduling

Investegate, the retail trader’s shop window on the Square Mile, plans an announcement timing service to help investors track news

The Independent UK

Camino de Santiago: The world’s most famous walk is changing

Last year, nearly half a million people walked the Camino de Santiago – Ellie Davis explores the growing trend that is getting people out on the ancient route

The Independent UK

With strawberries and goats, a ‘farmastery’ reaches out to its neighbors

A 23-acre farm located amid lush green meadows and stands of pine is where Elaine Heath, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and a former dean of the Duke Divinity School, started a new monastic community known as the Church at Spring Forest

The Independent UK

In chic Soho, a Hindu temple offers itself as a spiritual oasis

In the heart of Soho’s fashion district, a new kind of Hindu temple is drawing in spiritually curious New Yorkers — everyone from TikTok-loving Gen Zers to celebrities like Willem Dafoe and Deepak Chopra

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