Tradition is trending. Nationally and locally, a younger generation is skipping brunch to spend Sunday morning inside Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches. “When me and my wife started attending (the Orthodox church), we were in our mid-20s. It was a lot of legacy families. It was ...
Dear Annie: We have a relative coming from out of town to visit for a week. I'd love to say I'm excited to see her, but I'm not. Last time she stayed, I was ready to push her out the door! She's bossy and tries to tell me what to do and how to do it. I don't appreciate people questioning me, ...
TEL AVIV, Israel – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing U.S. pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the nearly month-old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting there would be no temporary cease-fire until the roughly 240 ...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – Israeli troops <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war">fought with Hamas militants</a> and encircled Gaza City on Thursday, the military said, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. U.S. and Arab leaders raised ...
EKLUTNA, Alaska – The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil paintings and jewel-studded incense burners. But outside the hand-hewn log sanctuary, dozens of ...
PORTO-NOVO, Benin – For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives.Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were brought as newborns by parents seeking to ward off evil spirits. Some ...
