PHILADELPHIA — Clergy from across Philadelphia erected an altar in front of ICE headquarters on Thursday, decorating it with fruit, flowers and crosses in a prayerful protest against the Trump ...

(RNS) — Clergy representing over 30 Pennsylvania religious groups rallied last Thursday (April 3) outside of Philadelphia’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office against President ...

A Vatican court on Tuesday sentenced a priest to prison for sexually abusing a fellow student while attending a youth seminary whose members worked as altar servers for the pope, multiple news ...

Police are calling it a new low. A thief strolled into a Gloucester County church during Mass recently and stole a bag of valuables belonging to an altar server. Authorities are sharing photos of ...

A former Texas priest has been accused of molesting and raping a female altar server for years — with the alleged abuse starting in confession. Miguel Luna, 68, was arrested June 11 on charges of ...

EL PASO (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The trial of a former Texas priest accused of sexually abusing an altar server for years was postponed after Catholic leaders named hundreds of priests credibly accused ...

SINGAPORE - The Catholic Church here has confirmed that it investigated allegations of inappropriate behaviour between a former altar server and several younger altar servers who were aged between ...

Clergy say that busy household schedules and Covid challenges are fuelling decline Being an altar server is now seen as ‘going against the grain’. Picture: Getty Fewer children are becoming ...

John Journeuax said it had been a "privilege" to be able to serve the church for so long A man who is thought to be Jersey’s longest-serving altar server has celebrated 70 years of service in ...

ICE officials declined to comment. Outside the nondescript corner ICE office, pastors built an altar out of a plastic folding table and four short Doric columns. They stepped forward one by one to ...

To make their point, the clergy built an interfaith altar at ICE’s doorstep and offered to break bread with ICE agents, appealing to their shared humanity and values. The clergy are part of an ...