35 Back-To-School Prayers for the Start of the Year 1. "Lord, I pray that my children will love learning; that their hearts would seek to understand the world you have created.

New Beginnings Outreach Ministries International hosted its biggest "Spreading the Love" event yet, offering free meals, ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — With Pope Francis’ encouragement, the Vatican’s doctrinal office issued a document on Monday (Dec. 18) allowing Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples.

Blessing of the Sick. ... I would like to offer you a word of encouragement and hope, a word which I extend to all those following us on television and radio, ...

I have found it to be such a blessing and encouragement that throughout the Bible the one, true and living God uses those whom society rejects and counts as nobodies as those from whom the gospel ...

Cal Lutheran’s Choir will sing; graduating students will offer messages of gratitude and hope; and faith leaders from multiple traditions will share words of blessing and encouragement. All graduates ...

Two Brenham families’ dreams of home ownership are one step closer to reality.

During the ceremony, prayers are shared -- Weakly's father offered the welcoming prayer -- and well-wishers take up markers, pencils and pens and write words of encouragement on the bare studs.