Thanks to Quail Lakes Baptist Church in Stockton, CA, and a host of 60 meal delivery volunteers, the load is lightened for families who would otherwise need to prepare meals at critical times, like after a newborn joined the family or before funerals.
A growing number of churches view Charles Darwin's 200th birthday this week and the 150th anniversary of his seminal work The Origin of Species as something to celebrate. More than 900 congregations in the U.S. and elsewhere are signed up for Evolution Weekend 2009, held on this day as an annual event.
Christian churches in the U.S. are turning over a new leaf for Palm Sunday with about 2,500 congregations from every major denomination used fair-trade palm fronds to celebrate Palm Sunday, the annual observance of the day Jesus arrived in Jerusalem a week before his crucifixion. They say it's the Christian thing to do
President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo in which he pledged a new U.S. relationship with Muslim countries, has been named the top religion story for 2009 by secular journalists who cover religion in the United States.
Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he would travel to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan in May, his first visit to the Holy Land and one that comes amid a new US push for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Worshipers are borrowing from Eastern religions and New Thought philosophies in an effort to find more meaning in their lives. Angela Bowman is a good example attending Catholic mass every Sunday but also meditating several times each day and practicing yoga every other week.
The Church of Scientology has sent more than one hundred and fifty of its members to assist in relief efforts in Haiti. NBC went to a hospital site where several of the volunteers were helping doctors, to see what they were doing and what they were saying about their religion.
An 80-year-old grocery magnate is donating $20 million to help train teachers for Catholic schools and universities. Patrick Roche, 80, co-founder of the Roche Brothers chain of 18 supermarkets in Massachusetts, credits his childhood Catholic school with embracing his family after his mother died.
For the first time in twenty-three years, a religious Sikh was allowed to complete officer training for the U.S. Army after he was issued an individual exemption. Capt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan, 31, was allowed to serve without sacrificing the turban and full beard mandated by his faith.
A 41-year-old millionaire businessman who nearly died in a car crash eight years ago is leaving behind his exquisite 16th-century farmhouse and lavish lifestyle in London to move to a mud hut in Uganda and start a children's charity.
Young Muslims now have a national forum where they can learn leadership skills and how to speak up and stop violent extremism. The Young Muslim Leadership Network (YMLN), founded last year in the UK, recently held its second national conference.
Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave.