SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says women can now serve missions starting at age 18. The First Presidency announced Friday, effective immediately, that young women ...

The international Catholic news weekly The Tablet thought the appointment of the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican Church presented a ripe opportunity for the Catholic Church to ...

(AP) – In the Black Church as a whole, male pastors predominate, though there’s no comprehensive gender breakdown. No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist ...

No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. That changed in ...

(RNS) — 40 years ago this week, the world's second-largest Mormon denomination announced it would start ordaining women. That decision forever changed the church, which is now gearing up for its first ...

It's Women's History Month and our "Black Church in Detroit" series examines the role of women in the Black church. We'll talk about their vital contributions to the church as well as the challenges ...

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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Preaching Christ Church and The Shepherd’s Watch Ministries are two of many in the Tri-Cities that are providing a warm place for people to stay out of the frigid ...

Preachers can be tempted to ask themselves the wrong question when starting to prepare a homily. “The question is not ‘What do I want to say,” but ‘God, what do people need to hear?”, says Kayla ...

In the mold of Sts. Peter and Paul, Catholics are called to be members of a church that constantly follows Jesus and proclaims his word by putting preaching at the center of its ministry, Pope Francis ...

Cardinals and bishops concelebrating Mass with Pope Francis are seated in front of a statue of St. Peter dressed specially for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican ...