New York’s venerable Marble Collegiate Church, founded nearly 400 years ago and made famous by its longtime leader, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, named a new senior minister on Sunday (Feb 1). The Rev. Michael Brown, a United Methodist pastor from North Carolina, succeeds the Rev. Arthur Caliandro, who retired Sunday after heading the church…

Washington — Millard Fuller, the man who founded Habitat for Humanity and whose name was synonymous with volunteer faith-based efforts to build houses for the poor, died suddenly Tuesday (Feb. 3) after a brief illness. Fuller, 74, had suffered from a chest cold in recent weeks, said Holly Chapman, vice president of communications and development…

Washington – The nation’s top Catholic archbishop on Tuesday (Feb. 2) condemned the remarks of a Holocaust-denying English bishop as “deeply offensive and utterly false,” and sought to reaffirm the church’s bonds with the Jewish community. “No Catholic, whether layperson, priest or bishop, can ever negate the memory of the Shoah,” said Cardinal Francis George…

NEW DELHI – The Dalai Lama was taken to a hospital in India’s capital for medical tests Monday after experiencing minor pain in his arms that was later diagnosed as a pinched nerve, his spokesman said. The 73-year-old exiled Tibetan spiritual leader has had a number of health problems in recent months that have interrupted…

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