Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to research from Pew Research Center, about 60 to 64% of Americans identify as Christians. Since 2007, that number ...

A multisite church in North Carolina baptized 458 people in a single day, setting a record in the congregation s 137-year ...

Pilgrims wait for Pope Francis to arrive to lead a prayer vigil during World Youth Day at Campo da Graça in Park Tejo in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 5, 2023. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller) Pope Francis ...

Including people with mental and physical challenges should be an expectation, not an “extra.” I didn’t grow up in church. But even as an undiagnosed autistic child raised Hindu in the South, I was ...

In this essay from Fr. Michael J. Himes (1947-2022), he reveals his “hope that these words will instill within you a conviction that Catholicism is alive through your life.” Fr. Himes reflects on our ...

Formal membership figures might rise and fall. But God’s desire for his people never wavers. In the ancient world, Jacob worked for Laban seven years to marry his daughter Rachel—and then another ...