LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them ...

Eastern Orthodoxy in the U.S. is experiencing a surge in converts, partly due to online content LOS ANGELES -- Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first ...

Editor's note: This part 1 of an opinion series on churches of Orthodoxy. Look for part 2: "The shape of American Orthodoxy in 2040" next week. For Orthodox Christians in America, the 20th century was ...

One Monday in mid-October, after a year in US immigration detention, officers arrived unannounced at Majid's cell in Texas. They told him simply to "pack up" - that he was being moved - even though an ...

Young people come to New York City to chase careers, materialism and pleasure. The pursuit of faith isn’t exactly on the Big Apple checklist. However, at a recent, very crowded Sunday night mass at St ...

"I hope she may one day see things as I do," the vice president said. Vice President JD Vance on Friday defended comments about his faith and marriage after critics accused him of throwing his wife's ...

The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful. By Ellen Barry As a teenager, Julie Rodgers attended Tuesday night group therapy sessions in which young ...

As more young people identify as transgender, a fight has re-emerged over therapy that questions their gender identities. By Amy Harmon Since at least a decade ago, a rare consensus has prevailed on a ...

NAIROBI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Kenya has completed converting three railway construction dollar-denominated loans from China into yuan in order to save on interest payments, its Finance Minister John ...

LLM referrals convert no better than search and make up less than 1% of traffic, challenging claims of higher-quality clicks, new data shows. Traffic from large language models (LLMs) doesn’t convert ...

He remembers walking towards the worst experience of his life. The dorm hall was a concrete tunnel, with chipped white paint on the walls and a stench of sweat trapped inside. The stairs, he recalls, ...