Charismatic, Pentecostal churches are growing fast worldwide, and only a bit slower in the U.S. For those unfamiliar with these terms, "Pentecostal" refers to churches or religions characterized by an ...

Pope Francis presides at the morning session of the Synod of Bishops on the family in 2015 at the Vatican. The concept of "synodality," originally applied to bishops meeting together to discuss church ...

Measured against great biblical wanderings, their predicament can’t match Moses and the Israelites shuffling across the Sinai desert before moseying into the promised land. They didn’t even wander the ...

(The Conversation) — Historically, Black Pentecostal-charismatic churches have not put an emphasis on political issues. That may be changing, a scholar of Black Christianity explains. Apart from ...

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Church closings are nothing new in this country. In the past six years, 168 Church of England churches have closed, along with 500 Methodist and 100 Roman Catholic churches. ...

The recent Asbury University Revival reflected a larger movement in Western and worldwide Christianity. This is good news for Generation Z, a generation that has been characterized as depressed, ...

Illegal guns, ammunition and drugs recovered during an exercise by Western Division police in 2014 in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen Media types use ...

Only a third of the continent’s Christians are Pentecostals and other renewalists. And they’re facing backlash. John MacArthur still doesn't like the charismatic movement. The past decade or two have ...

In a video message to a May 15 online meeting organized by the Italian Charismatic Consultation, the pope praised the group’s commitment to ecumenism. “I join you and participate spiritually in this ...

Worshippers listen as President Joe Biden speaks at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ on July 7, 2024, in Philadelphia. Joe Lamberti for The Washington Post via Getty Images Many Black leaders are ...