“I said, ‘We’re here to learn about Jesus and pray to God ... as an associate of St. Paul and a female deacon of the early church. Deacons in today’s Catholic Church are ordained ...

But church historians have long known that certain Jewish followers of Christ, in the early decades after his ... faced toward Jerusalem when praying, and observed the Sabbath on Saturday instead ...

The architecture changed and improved, but the role that the Church played remained essentially unchanged until the early 16th century ... the cause of an English prayer book in the late 14th ...

Since Saturday, members of Bethel Church have been using prayer, music and singing in the effort. Andrew and Kalley Heiligenthal's 2-year-old daughter, Olive Alayne, died early Saturday morning ...