A senior adult ministry for people in the 50-plus age group will meet Thursday, Sept. 21 at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church. The musical program “Melodies By” will be presented by Leah Benson, Diana Bullinger, Jackie Marum and Kerry Olson of Bottineau. Refreshments will be served. ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Fans of the old Latin Mass descended on Rome on Thursday for their annual pilgrimage, facing indifference to their cause, if not outright resistance, from none other than Pope Francis. Ten years after Pope Benedict XVI passed a law allowing greater use of the Latin Mass, ...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis has sharply criticized climate change doubters, saying history will judge those who failed to take the necessary decisions to curb heat-trapping emissions blamed for the warming of the Earth. Francis was asked about climate change and the spate of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Greek Orthodox church taking shape next to the World Trade Center memorial plaza will glow at night like a marble beacon when it opens sometime next year. It also will mark another step in the long rebuilding of New York's ground zero. The St. Nicholas National Shrine, ...
BEIJING (AP) — The Vatican's efforts to heal a decades-long rift with China appear to have stalled, with each side still unwilling to accept controversial bishops appointed by the other. In recent months, Beijing has appeared to take a harder line toward believers, and has ordered the ...
First Baptist Church of Minot will kick off its Awana Clubs on Wednesday, Sept. 6 for children who are age 3 by July 31 and youth through the eighth grade. Awana is a nondenominational ministry where children and youth learn important truths from God’s Word, memorize Scripture, play games ...
The Mouse River All Faith’s Chapel will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Sunday, Sept. 3. Activities that day include a worship service at 11 a.m. led by Rick Hartle. Following worship, lunch will be served by the chapel board. Root beer floats will be offered while enjoying musical ...
Our basement is a glorified crawl space with a ceiling about 5 ¢ feet high. Even so, we did build shelves there to store extra canned goods, cereal, toilet paper and Christmas decorations. On the outside of the house, the window wells are surprisingly deep so, my husband covered them, cutting ...
FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — When Moina Shaiq realized even her friends were scared to ask her about her religion for fear of offending her or sounding uneducated, she put an advertisement in a California newspaper: "Questions and answers about being Muslim." The ad offered ideas for questions: ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon church leader was removed from his post and kicked out of the religion Tuesday for the first time in nearly three decades. James J. Hamula was released from a mid-level leadership council based on disciplinary action by the religion's highest leaders, said ...
KEMPLEY, England (AP) — I'm lost in a world of hedges. The narrow lanes crowd in. I drive ever slower, looking for a signpost. Just as I think I'm lost, a squat, square tower and a weather vane peep above the greenery. St. Mary's Church, in Kempley, in Gloucestershire, western England, is a ...
Last weekend, my youngest daughter and I toured two of the handful of colleges she’s hoping to visit by fall. Of the two parochial and two public universities we’ve explored so far, each offers attributes and amenities I couldn’t have dreamed of during my own college days. ...
By Mathew Schmalz College of the Holy Cross (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) — Pope Francis has created a new category for beatification, the level immediately below sainthood, in the ...
Vincent United Methodist Women of Minot will hold a Rummage Sale and Bake Sale on Saturday, Aug. 12, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Featured on Saturday will be lunch of sandwiches and salad served from 11 a.m. until gone. Sweet treats and coffee will be served at 9 a.m. Bag Bargains are available ...
From July 30 through Aug. 2, The Manka Family will be at the Minot Baptist Church. Regular services are on Sunday, at 9:45 a.m., 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday services will be at 7 p.m.. The Manka Family Ministries is a conservative, evangelistic ministry. They have ministered ...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Muslims say they have experienced widespread suspicion about their faith in the first months of Donald Trump's presidency, but also have received more support from individual Americans, and remain hopeful they can eventually be fully accepted in American society, a new ...
Missionaries from Amazing Grace Ministries will be at the Minot Baptist Church and the North Dakota State Fair in Commercial Building III from July 21 through the end of the fair. For further information please call Pastor David B. Miller at 839-1351. Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m., Morning ...
(THE CONVERSATION) A report released on Tuesday, July 18, found “a high degree of plausibility” that hundreds of boys at a prestigious Catholic boys’ choir in Germany were physically or sexually abused between 1945 and 1992. The choir was led at the time by Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI’s ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) — Cardinal George Pell, a top adviser to Pope Francis, returned to his native Australia July 10 to face criminal charges related to sexual assault. While the ...
First Baptist Church XYZ, a senior adult ministry for people over age 50, will hold the annual Southern Fried Chicken Picnic on Thursday at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church. The event will be held indoors. A musical program will be presented by Sue Gunderson-Kranz of Powers Lake. The cost is ...