Photo by Jeff Baughan The sanctuary of the church has 150 chairs ready for Sunday’s first service, but Pastor David Bounds said the church has room to seat many more and expects to for Sunday’s ...

Pope Francis' very public friendship with and overtures to Pentecostal and evangelical leaders is a high-profile reflection of a relationship that already existed at the grass roots between Catholic ...

As the message of Pentecost spread, it adapted to fit existing cultures. Korean Pentecostals, for instance, frequently climb “prayer mountains” for pre-sunrise prayer services, a reflection of a ...

The video, recorded on an iPhone, lasts less than eight minutes. The message is simple: We're brothers despite our differences. Yet, religious leaders say this informal greeting from Pope Francis has ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

CASERTA, Italy (RNS) “I am the shepherd of the Catholics and I ask you to forgive my Catholic brothers and sisters who did not understand and were tempted by the devil," Pope Francis told an Italian ...

LOS ANGELES – At Three Crosses Church, Pastor Ken Walters urges his parishioners to join him in song and scripture. The charismatic 58-year-old extends his arms skyward and belts out melodies praising ...

Understandably, the ecumenical focus these days in much Catholic conversation tends to fall on the Anglican Communion, given its present crisis, and on Orthodoxy, given the “preferential option” of ...

WASHINGTON _ Speaking in tongues, long a hallmark of Pentecostalism, is not practiced by a significant number of charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, a new 10-country survey shows. The survey, ...

Pope Francis meets Sept. 28 at the Vatican with members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The council was holding its annual plenary meeting, which focused on relations between ...

Update, Jan. 7 at 8:13 a.m.: It was unlike any usual service at Pentecostals of Gainesville on Sunday night, as the church welcomed some visitors from out of state. It was also unlike any usual ...