In October, 800 people from many different churches and denominations gathered in the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 30 miles north of Boston, for an all-day celebration in prayer, song, and conversation of the 125th anniversary of the founding of Vision New England.
One of the largest collections of Dead Sea Scrolls and the most comprehensive collection of Israeli antiquities ever organized is currently at the Museum of Science, Boston.
Pope Francis is warning Catholics not to demonize those who are not members of the church, and he specifically defended atheists, saying that building walls against non-Catholics leads to “killing in the name of God.
It’s hard to open a newspaper in South Africa without being saddened by front-page stories about police corruption and brutality, the abuse of women, and the misuse of political power.
Americans spend $34 billion a year on so-called alternative medicine—botanical pills, acupuncture, energy healing, and the like—despite the fact that few of these techniques are backed by any science.
In a recent New York Times story, seven Newtown police officers give a firsthand account of the carnage they found inside Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14.
