By denying transgender people opportunities to use the restroom, attend overnight activities and serve with youth or children, the church reinforces harmful misconceptions that trans people are ...

Those at the First Christian Church in Weirton are helping community residents. A Christmas meeting of the Disciples Women is ...

Special guest speakers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Red Cross spoke at a Johnson City District ...

The Southern Baptist Convention rejected a proposal in June that sought to enshrine a ban on women pastors. But at the local ...

A major Vatican meeting gathering clerics and laity across the globe to discuss the future of the Catholic Church closes this weekend, thwarting discussion of women becoming priests or deacons in ...

At the second meeting, participants again let the cardinal ... “That is why we think the primary path is to look at the place of women in the church,” while continuing to look at “a ...

An active member of her Church of Jesus ... conservative religious women break for Harris but that in Tennessee, where she lives, “almost every single person that I meet is supporting Trump.” ...

The bishops, nuns and laypeople affirmed "there is no reason or impediment that should prevent women from carrying out leadership roles in the church," but the final document ruled out ordaining ...

The issue of women’s roles in the church, which had emerged as a priority when Catholics around the globe were canvassed for opinions ahead of the meeting, was repeatedly discussed at the synod.

Fernandez explained that a special working group would continue beyond the closing of the meeting, but that its focus would be on discussing the role of women in the church — not in the diaconate.

He later apologized and held a 90-minute meeting with members of the ... evidence of the sacramental ordinations of women as deacons in the Church, East and West, to the 12th century” and ...