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A North Carolina church has installed the first openly lesbian Bishop in the South. Sarah Fisher was installed as the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina. She is in a same-sex union with another woman, Reverend Mandy Brady. Gay bishops are not a new thing for the Episcopal Church. Rev. Gene Robinson…

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A controversial moment involving longtime charismatic minister Kevin Leal is drawing strong reactions online after he instructed an 18-year-old aspiring businessman to eat a page from the Bible during a church service. The unusual scene unfolded earlier this year during an Encounter Conference at The Rock Family Worship Center in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where Leal…

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Pope Leo XIV has issued a historic apology for the Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery, acknowledging for the first time that past popes authorized the enslavement of non-Christians during the colonial era and failed for centuries to condemn the practice fully. The apology came Monday in the pope’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, a sweeping document…

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Pope Leo XIV is calling for strong global regulation of artificial intelligence, warning that unchecked AI development could threaten human dignity, jobs and even peace itself. In a sweeping new encyclical titled “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”), the pope described artificial intelligence as one of the defining moral and social challenges of the modern age. The…

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A Long Island church community is praying for healing after a Sacred Heart of Jesus statue was found beheaded in what police are now investigating as a possible hate crime. According to Suffolk County Police, the vandalism happened at the Church of St. Mary in East Islip, New York, where parishioners discovered the damaged statue…
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