religious leaders

Billy Graham, known widely as “America’s Pastor,” was connected to a number of presidents and took his popular “crusades” from small events in towns across the country to television sets around the world. Graham, who passed Wednesday, had a close, if complicated, connection to the civil rights movement even as he shifted away from those […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Pope Francis is visiting a slum on Nairobi’s northwestern edge to press his call for adequate and dignified housing for society’s most marginal, especially in burgeoning megacities like the Kenyan capital. Francis has frequently insisted on the need for the three “Ls” — land, labor and lodging — and on Friday […]

  Father Divine was a religious leader responsible for beginning the International Peace Mission movement. The controversial yet successful preacher amassed a huge multiracial following while preaching that he was the living image of God. Not much is known about Father Divine’s early life. Historians say his birth name was George Baker, although Census records […]

  The Episcopal Church made history for the second consecutive time after it elected Bishop Michael Curry to lead its church in a landslide election that took place last weekend. Bishop Curry will be the first African-American to lead the church, this after outgoing Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori was the first woman to lead. Curry […]

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Severe weather was likely a factor in the small plane crash that killed nine people, including a prominent Christian minister and his wife, on approach to the island of Grand Bahama, the foreign minister said Monday. Heavy rain was buffeting the region when the Lear 36 Executive Jet struck a shipping […]