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man tattooing woman
Lifestyle & Belief
This Jerusalem tattoo studio is part of a centuries-old Christian tradition 
A decorated street carpet known as an alfombra created for Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala.
Lifestyle & Belief
Guatemalans commemorate Holy Week with colorful street carpets
people at a church
Sacred Nation
Brazil’s evangelicals work with the US on a political mission
Christians raise their hands in praise during an International Grace of God Church event led by televangelist R.R. Soares, with President Jair Bolsonaro in attendance, at Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. 
Religion
Progressive evangelicals in Brazil wage a battle ‘against Bolsonaroism’ ahead of elections
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, right, greets his new Justice Minister Andre Mendonça during his swearing-in ceremony at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. 
Justice
Evangelicals in Brazil ‘have taken power’ with latest Supreme Court justice appointee
Two rows of wooden pews are shown with several people standing while a priest is at the front of the church.
Sacred Nation
Two years after revolution, Christians in Sudan evaluate gains
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone celebrates Easter Mass, which was live-streamed, at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, April 12, 2020.
What the debate over Biden receiving Communion may mean for the world
The US Constitution's first page
US politics
Americans are prone to reading Constitution as scripture, says legal scholar
Man in red robe surrounded by men on both sides in yellow robes.
Religion
Why a centuries-old religious dispute over Ukraine’s Orthodox Church matters today
A woman poses for a photo surrounded by red Christmas ornaments in Bangkok, Thailand.
Religion
Photos: The world celebrates Christmas
A priest stands over a pale white body on a bed surrounded by demon heads.
Religion
Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries
“The Son has come and you’ve been left behind.”
Arts, Culture & Media
The counterculture’s countdown to Armageddon
Woman in church holding book and singing
Religion
American evangelicals are more diverse than ever. But some don’t want to be part of the ‘evangelical movement.’
Colorful stained-glass windows depicting the resurrection of Jesus Christ at Sherborne Abbey in Dorset, England.
Religion
Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts about the holiday
Arts, Culture & Media
Left Behind
Arts, Culture & Media
The Danielson Family
Arts, Culture & Media
Contemporary Christian Art
Arts, Culture & Media
The Da Vinci Code
The Rev. Billy Graham, accompanied by his son Franklin, went on a seven-city trip to Romania in 1985 that was marked by crowds in excess of 100,000 at times.
Religion
‘America’s pastor’ Billy Graham leaves global legacy
bishops
Religion
Vatican, China near agreement on bishops, but controversy remains
Animals are commonly found in nativity scenes, but surprisingly not in the Bible.
Belief
An ox, an ass … a dragon? Sorry, there were no animals in the Bible’s nativity scene.
Burmese refugees Thailand
Conflict
The biggest group of current refugees in the US? Christians from Myanmar.
Women pray in front of paramilitary policemen at Yonghegong Lama Temple on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Rooster in Beijing, China.
Books
Religion is alive and kicking in officially atheist China
Yoido Full Gospel Church began in 1958 and grew by serving poor and working class South Koreans who moved to the capital city of Seoul. Today, it's largest megachurch in the world.
Religion
The biggest megachurch on Earth and South Korea’s ‘crisis of evangelism’
An archbishop's mitre rests on its owner's ancient lead coffin in a forgotten tomb in London
Culture
Secret crypt in London: Beware of exploding bishops
Two men in smile in posed photo in front of small market
Justice
A Muslim immigrant and a Christian pastor find common ground — and try to connect with their Latino neighbors too
Screenshot from a parody video made by Christian singer Micah Tyler.
Religion
‘What a total God shot!’ Understand that? Then you speak Christianese.
Abu Radwan and his family converted to Christianity after they fled Syria to Lebanon. He says it's a genuine conversion, though he does say he thinks it might help him get resettled in the West.
Conflict
Why some Muslim Syrian refugees are converting to Christianity
The entrance to the room where the tomb of Jesus is located.
Religion
Jesus’ tomb was just exposed for the first time in centuries. Here are the photos.
Prof. Larycia Hawkins told a news conference on January 6, "Wheaton College cannot scare me into walking away from the truth that all humans, Muslims, the vulnerable, the oppressed, are all my sisters and brothers."
Belief
This evangelical Christian professor might lose her job for the way she reached out to Muslims
Five-year-old Leen, a Syrian refugee, poses for a portrait with her doll in her Sacramento, California bedroom on November 16, 2015. Her face is not being shown for security reasons.
Belief
We’re not showing her face. But this 5-year-old girl should be how we approach the Syrian refugee crisis, a Christian leader says
Paris, Tennessee, is home to the self-described biggest fish fry in the world — and a high risk of health problems.
Health
Why sit in pews when you can walk and worship? Rural churches preach better health.
German toy company Playmobil released a Martin Luther figurine this year, ahead of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017. The first run of 34,000 sold out in less than 72 hours.
Culture
Martin Luther didn’t just reform the church, he reformed the German language
Margot Kaessmann, Lutheran theologian and organizer for the "2017 Reformation Jubilee," calls Martin Luther, "one of the most important Germans in history."
Belief
Almost 500 years since Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation, Germany takes another look at his legacy
Priest Melak Birhan Ewenetu Yetemegne
Global Politics
How an Ethiopian priest changed his views on child marriage
During Sunday worship at St. Antonius Coptic Church in Hayward, California, women sit on one side of the church, and men on the other.
Belief
In California, praying in a language rooted in ancient Egypt
Pope Francis holds up a plaque with an image of Saint Theresa during a meeting with journalists on his flight from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Manila in the Philippines on January 15, 2014.
Belief
Pope Francis says religious freedom trumps the right to free speech
A woman in Plaza Miranda, outside Quiapo Church in Manila, sells off her dwindling stock of Pope Francis t-shirts in advance of the Pope's visit to the Philippines.
Belief
Filipino Catholics welcome Pope Francis with fervency, hope and souvenir T-shirts
Pope Francis sits next to Hindu leader Ndu-Kurukkal SivaSri T. Mahadeva during the Interreligious Encounter in Colombo, Sri Lanka on January 13, 2015.
Global Politics
Pope Francis shows pugnacious side: You’d better not insult my mother
Pope Francis delivers a "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and world) message from the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Christmas Day of 2014.
Belief
Pope Francis was a huge story in 2014, but a veteran Vatican reporter says the media got a lot wrong
An Iraqi Christian man from Mosul, who fled from violence in northern Iraq, reads a book at the Latin Patriarchate Church in Amman, Jordan, on August 21, 2014.
Belief
On Christmas, some of the oldest Christian communities on Earth are on the run
Supporters of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture attended a rally outside the White House in 2009.
Belief
CIA interrogators didn’t just break detainees’ bodies — they also attacked their souls
A photo of Tam Duong's family during Lunar New Year in the early 1990s. Tam, on the right in the red dress, is from Los Angeles and now lives in Boston. Her parents are from Vietnam and Duong says she was confused as to why Santa never came to their home.
Belief
There’s nothing traditional about an immigrant Christmas
A bishop takes a picture with a tablet during the Synod on the Family. The Roman Catholic assembly has softened its traditional Catholic stance against gays, suggesting "accepting and valuing their sexual orientation."
Belief
The Catholic Church changed only its tone on gays, but that’s still a big deal
The 82 year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen (center) is the former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Hong Kong and a supporter of the student-led pro-democracy campaign in the Chinese territory.
Belief
Christians take a prominent role in Hong Kong protests
Culture
What do the words mutton, sheep and robot have in common? Translation!
The UN's Fijian guard unit on parade in Iraq.
Conflict
Fijian peacekeepers in Iraq aren’t just a battalion — they’re a choir
Evangelical worshipers pray during a mass held by missionary Lanna Holder and her partner Pastor Rosania Rocha, in the Cidade de Refugio church they founded, in Sao Paulo June 16, 2012.
Environment
Evangelicals increasingly are embracing environmentalism
Pope Francis speaks outside the Castelpetroso sanctuary near Isernia in southern Italy on July 5, 2014. During the speech, he told students that environmental damage was a sin.
Lifestyle & Belief
Why Pope Francis is ‘throwing down a gauntlet’ on environmental destruction
A man with devil make-up takes part in celebrations marking the “Walpurgisnacht” pagan tradition, in Germany.
Lifestyle & Belief
The Church of England doesn’t want you to worry about the devil
Lifestyle & Belief
Vatican letter told Bishops not to report child abuse
A 19th century German missionary built a model of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, color coded to indicate which areas belonged to which community.
Lifestyle & Belief
Pope Francis hopes to heal Christian rifts, at a Jerusalem church torn by Christian rifts
Global Politics
C Street: sex scandals, fundamentalism, family
A bronze statue inside the Vatican of the late Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005 and became a saint on April 27, 2014.
Lifestyle & Belief
Want to become a saint without dying for the cause? It’s not easy
Pope Francis reaches out to greet the faithful in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican on March 26, 2014.
Lifestyle & Belief
Pope Francis led this Argentine to embrace his faith once more
Pope Francis reaches out to greet the faithful in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican on March 26, 2014.
Lifestyle & Belief
Pope Francis led this Argentine to embrace his faith once more
Kaduna violence
Lifestyle & Belief
A pastor and an imam once tried to kill each other — now they work to heal Nigeria
A Sunday service at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Melrose, Mass. includes gospel singing, a live band, and dancing.
Lifestyle & Belief
This African church hopes to spread across America ‘like Starbucks’
Under an open-air pavilion built to seat a million people, children sleep on mats spread out on the cobblestones while their parents enter their 6th consecutive hour of worship.
Lifestyle & Belief
Evangelical Christianity is big in Nigeria — 87 football fields big
The door on the side of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, Germany. In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses here sparking the Reformation. The original door was destroyed in a fire, but this black bronze door marks the historical spot.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Did Martin Luther’s reformation 500 years ago leave its mark on today’s eurozone budget crisis?