Posts in category Prayerful Living

DIGGING INTO THE PAST: According to community lore, many as 300 souls, including enslaved people and their descendants, are buried at St. Mary of the …

MOTHER MARY ELIZABETH LANGE: Among three Black nuns from the U.S. designated by Catholic officials as worthy of consideration for sainthood, including Henriette Delille and …

COSTS HAVING IMPACT: Demand to carry out Islam’s spiritual trip of a lifetime usually outstrips the supply of pilgrimage spots many times over. PHOTO COURTESY …

This year’s Hajj is a landmark: the first full pilgrimage after three years when the COVID-19 pandemic sharply reduced the scale of one of Islam’s …

MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS: At ceremonial opening of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, she has been a civil rights activist in her own right. …

MARIJUANA: Celebrating in Antigua and Barbuda, practice brings them closer to the divine. STOCK PHOTO LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) – On the same ground where their …

POLITICAL CALCULATIONS ASIDE: Bernice King said her grandfather and Carter shared "real kinship" as two Baptists raised in small-town Georgia. PHOTO COURTESY OF BRIDGEMANIMAGES.COM ATLANTA …

INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES: The Rev. T.D. Jakes, CEO of the T.D. Jakes Group, announces strategic partnership with Wells Fargo & Company to build them. PHOTO COURTESY …

EDNA ADAN ISMAIL: First African woman to win the prestigious prize "has employed her many positions of authority to argue passionately that (female genital mutilation) …

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) – A Mississippi hotel that gave Black travelers safe lodging during segregation and once welcomed such notables as the Rev. Martin Luther …