Posts in category Prayerful Living

Charlottesville,, Va. (AP) – Charlottesville native Diane Brown Townes knew some of her family history from records kept in an old tattered family Bible passed …

Bogalusa, La. (AP) – The home that served as the base of operations for the Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement is now recognized with a marker …

Last year, the U.S. branch of the Jesuits pledged to raise $100 million for a reconciliation initiative in partnership with descendants of people once enslaved …

Along the Jordan River (AP) – Kristen Burckhartt felt overwhelmed. She needed time to reflect, to let it sink in that she had just dipped …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …