Colorado Springs pastors and rabbis say the timeless messages of Easter and Passover remain the same during the second year of COVID-restricte…
Religion News Service
- By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Trying to save jobs as the pandemic pummels Vatican revenues, Pope Francis has ordered pay cuts for cardinals and other cl…
- By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
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ROME (AP) — The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church won't bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”
- By Jennifer Mulson jen.mulson@gazette.com
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Colorado Springs recording artist and dentist Joseph Hale will star as Judas in composer and conductor Rob Gardner's new concert film version …
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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After being canceled last spring because of the pandemic, “God With Us,” a musical that brings the Bible to life in an original production, ag…
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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Pastor Brandon Shupp’s new church that opens Sunday in southeast Colorado Springs is targeting what he calls “the dones.”
- By Seth Boster seth.boster@gazette.com
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The snow didn’t stop Ron Forseth from his ritual one recent morning.
- STEVE RABEY Religion correspondent
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Tyler Ethridge, a 2017 graduate of the Practical Government School at Andrew Wommack's Charis Bible College, was among the crowd of Trump supp…
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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As pandemic restrictions ease and churches open more fully, some congregants report feeling pressured to attend services in person. Colorado S…
- By Steve Rabey Religion correspondent
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The African preacher was delivering a sermon on prayer to a small congregation in a remote village when he used a popular illustration he had …
- By Seth Klamann seth.klamann@gazette.com
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Retired Wyoming bishop Joseph Hart has been cleared of sexual abuse allegations by the Vatican, after an 18-month penal process that exonerate…
- By Emily McFarlan Miller Religion News Service
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The March for Life will be virtual this year.
- By MICHAEL KARLIK michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
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Archbishop of Denver Samuel J. Aquila said on Wednesday that he would pray for President Joe Biden and the country, while also echoing warning…
- By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service
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The Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, longtime Baptist minister and former religious freedom ambassador, took on another role with the recent animated …
- By Steve Rabey Religion Correspondent
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2020 had it all: Disease. Death. Lockdowns. Economic despair. Social isolation. Poisoned politics. Racial strife. Street protests.
- By Jennifer Mulson jen.mulson@gazette.com
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Colorado Springs doctor Walt Larimore also is a prolific author. Not only has he practiced medicine for about four decades, but he's written 4…
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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As lifelong Jehovah’s Witnesses, Colorado Springs residents Sam and Amanda Rocha have been knocking on strangers’ doors since childhood.
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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Christmas Eve usually ranks as the second-largest service at New Life Church, drawing some 15,000 people to the massive evangelical Christian …
- By Amanda Hancock amanda.hancock@gazette.com
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A Colorado Springs church is hosting a drive-in Christmas Eve service.
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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State and local public health departments on Friday dropped a lawsuit against Woodland Park-based Andrew Wommack Ministries over its alleged l…
- By Jennifer Mulson jen.mulson@gazette.com
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Prairie Campus of First United Methodist Church will offer an outdoor walk-through nativity Dec. 23-24. Visits will be timed entries. Reservat…
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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In accepting the defeat of President Donald Trump, conservative Christians, who historically have supported Republican candidates, say they ar…
- By Steve Rabey Religion Correspondent
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“Chaotic” and “unstable” is how Nina describes growing up with a single mother who worked three jobs to keep her five children clothed and fed.
- Colorado Politics
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Under the change, houses of worship "must do their best to follow public health recommendations but may exceed recommended capacity caps if th…
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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The spiritual significance of Hanukkah — the concept of miracles, the redemptive power of light, the practice of goodness — are needed more th…
- Seth Klamann seth.klamann@gazette.com
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A report released by the Attorney General's Office identifies nine new Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing juveniles in the mid-to la…
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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The Pikes Peak region’s oldest Catholic church is showing its age, and leaders say it’s time for the equivalent of a hip replacement.
- BY CARLOTTA OLSON The Gazette
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Colorado Springs-area online church services
- By Steve Rabey Religion Correspondent
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Andrew Wommack says 1968 was when “God rang my bell.” “God’s love consumed me,” says the Woodland Park preacher, who says God has led him, ste…
- By Linda Navarro linda.navarro@gazette.com
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Operation Christmas Child provides special holiday shoeboxes for children in need worldwide. Local collections Nov. 16-23.
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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A Colorado Springs pastor and two of her sons are suing former parishioners, claiming they posted “defamatory, false and slanderous” statement…
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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The phone call from one of the big guys could come next week or next year.
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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It’s hard for people to give without even the smallest expectation that they will receive something in return.
- By Jennifer Mulson jen.mulson@gazette.com
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Colorado Springs pastors talk about how their sermons come together.
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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Seven months into the coronavirus pandemic, religious organizations have been in the forefront of clashes over government-ordered restrictions…
- By Amanda Hancock amanda.hancock@gazette.com
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John Redmon has always loved music and always done music on the side. Then when he lost his job at 40, it was time to chase his dream.
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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A U.S. Denver District Court judge denied Andrew Wommack Ministries' request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to o…
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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With COVID-19 restrictions and concerns keeping churches closed or only partially reopened, Colorado Springs-headquartered David C. Cook has b…
- By Steve Rabey Religion Correspondent
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Even as a young girl, she was devoted to Jesus and committed to missionary service in faraway lands.
- By Jennifer Mulson jen.mulson@gazette.com
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Quakers in Colorado Springs differ in their beliefs and approaches to God, but all branches of the religion go back to George Fox, who founded…
- By STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com
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They danced, sang and swayed shoulder-to-shoulder, clasped palms with strangers and laid hands on their brothers and sisters in prayer. While …
- David Ramsey david.ramsey@gazette.com
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Author Robert P. Jones has a, using his word, provocative view of America's white churches. He believes the white church is polluted by white …
- By Debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com
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When a priest consecrates, or makes holy, the bread and wine during a Maronite Rite Mass, he speaks in Aramaic, the spoken language of Jesus.
- By Amanda Hancock amanda.hancock@gazette.com
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A lineup of singers including TobyMac and Natalie Grant will perform during a virtual concert aiming to raise money for those affected by the …
- By Seth Boster seth.boster@gazette.com
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Manitou Community Church stands on a hillside, its humble bell tower and cobblestone presence intertwined with the town's idyllic charm.
- Michael Karlik, Colorado Politics
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There have been four COVID-19 outbreaks in Colorado churches in two weeks, with Garfield County experiencing at least 22 positive cases, CPR reports.
- David Ramsey david.ramsey@gazette.com
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The Road @ Chapel Hills chose to close its doors for 13 days after one of its ministers tested positive for the coronavirus.
- Jakob Rodgers Kaiser Health News
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The lights dimmed. Guitars thrummed. And a nine-piece band kicked off what amounted to a rock concert inside an amphitheater of a church. “Sho…
- By Steve Rabey Religion Correspondent
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When Colorado Springs businessman Ken Harrison announced last year that he was resurrecting Promise Keepers, the Colorado ministry that brough…
- By Steve Rabey Religion Correspondent
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Jack Briggs hopes his return to Colorado Springs from New York University in October for his new job as CEO of the Springs Rescue Mission is h…