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Montco parish showcases Ukraine’s dances to save children amid war
St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jenkintown hosted a May 15 benefit featuring performers from the Voloshky School, with proceeds funding humanitarian aid for kids in war-torn Ukraine.
Asian American Catholic woman takes pride in culture’s overlooked saints
Sarah Hoyoung Ku, a Korean American and Catholic convert, and her Chinese American husband found few religious images of their Asian heritage for themselves and their five children, so she started an Instagram account to change that.
Efforts kick off to spread Gospel message person to person
A new archdiocesan commission to revitalize the local church and build missionary discipleship has begun its work, and it's already taking root in parishes.
Miracles of medical science, and the divine, happen at Torresdale
At a hospital campus of Jefferson Health-Northeast in Philadelphia, new therapies and robotic tools restore health for loved ones, in addition to a man's miraculous healing thanks to St. Katharine Drexel's prayers.
Where St. Katharine rode, cancer center rises in N.E. Phila.
A Level 1 Trauma Center at the new Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia's Torresdale section offers care on grounds that used to be the Drexel family's country retreat.
People of faith join in public prayers on National Day of Prayer
Rose Tree Park in Media, Delaware County hosted the 71st annual prayer event May 5, in person for the first time in two years. Some 200 people worshiped God and prayed for many needs.
Kinship care, adoption keeps kids in the family
Catholic Social Services is aiding hundreds of children and youth in need by helping relatives provide stable, loving -- and forever -- homes for them.
Senior prelate thinks church is growing secretly in North Korea
A South Korean archbishop, 97, believes the Catholic Church in communist North Korea -- where he studied to be a priest before the communist takeover -- is growing, although Catholics live in hiding and endure persecution.
Chaos, curfew after arrests in mob murder of student accused of blasphemy
Catholic churches in a major Nigerian city suspended Masses May 15, as authorities sought to quell violent protests sparked by stoning death of a young woman and the detention of two suspects.
Biden administration defends giving migrant children baby formula
A White House spokesperson pointed to a 1997 law that requires the government to provide water, food as appropriate and other standards of care to immigrant children in government custody.