From Mecca to the Vatican, VR exploring sacred sites
Click and gape at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ceiling up close. Click again and join thousands of pilgrims praying and circling around the cube-shaped Kaaba …
Posts in category Prayerful Living
‘Feed My People’ at 30
Lafayette, La. (AP) – Lafayette Parish School Board member Elroy Broussard showed up to his church parish hall at 6 a.m. on a recent Saturday …
Emmett Till’s house, Black sites get preservation funds
Chicago (AP) – Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was …
Excavation of graves begins at site of colonial Black church
Archaeologists in Virginia began excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches on Monday, commencing a monthslong …
Neighborly love
Miami, Fla. – Members of Miami’s most historic mosque celebrated the spirit of Ibrahim, or Abraham, with a communal food giveaway Saturday that happened to …
In Buffalo, 3 more funerals during week of goodbyes
Buffalo, N.Y. (AP) – A mother and sister known for baking decadent pastries. A restaurant worker buying his 3-year-old’s birthday cake. A father and die-hard …
Uvalde: Visitations, funerals, burials, one after another
Uvalde, Texas (AP) – It should have been the first day of a joyous week for Robb Elementary School students – the start of summer …
Buddhist chaplains on rise in U.S., with broad appeal
Portland, Ore. (AP) – Wedged into a recliner in the corner of her assisted living apartment in Portland, Skylar Freimann, who has a terminal heart …
Food banks struggling
Kendall Nunamaker and her family of five in Kennewick, Wa., faced impossible math this month: How to pay for gas, groceries and the mortgage with …
Ala. ‘Bloody Sunday’ church on endangered places list
Like religious congregants all over, the people of historic Brown Chapel AME Church turned off the lights and locked the doors at the beginning of …