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Isn’t that the reason why we study the Bible? Within its pages, we learn how to be the best person the Lord created us to be.

From the Gospel according to John 19:19-20: Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the Cross; it read ... Now he is truly "lifted up". In sinking to the depths he rose to the heights.

Renowned Ghanaian gospel group, Daughters of Glorious Jesus, has announced the dates for their annual outreach programme, ...

God knows when we are on the first rung that we will have to continually “look up” to him. He is the one who started a good ...

The battle to win the inaugural edition of the newly rebranded AFC Champions League Elite continued this week, with three ...

YODER: None of us is beyond redemption, unless we want to be. We are changed. Transformed from a single unity existing merely ...

The providential story of Mother Angelica’s founding of EWTN captivated an audience of more than 450 men at the diocesan ...

This is a running analysis of the Indianapolis Colts’ moves and key departures during free agency. The legal tampering window began Monday at noon ET and the NFL’s new league year, when teams can ...

But none of that will matter on Sunday afternoon. Millions will tune in as two of football’s biggest names take each other on ...

Beginning the solemn season of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 5, Archbishop Richard G. Henning celebrated the first of his three public Masses of the day for the 1,500 students of Boston C ...

Fasting is essentially giving up food for a period of time to focus one’s thought on God. In the Old Testament, it was often a way of expressing grief or a means of humbling one’s self before the Lord ...