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Back in June, a South African YouTube show about religious prophecies and visions featured an interview with a guest named Joshua Mhlakela. Though later described by viewers as a “pastor,” Mhlakela only said that he was a “simple person” without a church title who had experienced a vision of the …

As AI invades every corner of 21st-century life, it has taken on human roles that we probably shouldn’t be outsourcing. For some, it serves as a therapist. For others, it’s an endlessly understanding romantic companion. Strangest of all, people have turned to chatbots for guidance in matters of faith — …

I first learned about Aimee Semple McPherson while in divinity school. “Sister Aimee,” as she was known to her adoring followers, was an early Pentecostal preacher, the founder of America’s first megachurch, and a pioneer of Christian mass media. She was also an unpredictable impresario who infuriated her critics with …

Angel Studios, the faith-based media company that distributed the breakout hit Sound of Freedom in 2023, is facing a lawsuit for breach of contract. It’s yet another example of creative partners claiming that the streaming and entertainment giant, which went public last fall at a valuation of $1.6 billion and …

O ne of Jesse Morris’ earliest memories is sitting on his father’s shoulders at the church on Webster Street, in Oregon, Illinois, waiting for his pastor to rise from the dead. On an early spring night in 1992, about 75 people were packed under the high vaulted ceiling of the …

The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) has defrocked Father Calvin Robinson after the priest went viral for mimicking a recent gesture by Elon Musk that really, really looked like a Nazi salute. In a statement released Wednesday, the leadership of the ACC wrote that “were made aware of a post made …

I am cruising across the San Carlos Apache Reservation with Wendsler Nosie Sr., an Apache man asking the Supreme Court to save his place of worship, known as Chi’chil Bildagoteel, or Oak Flat, from what may soon be the largest copper mine in North America. For Nosie and his allies, …

On the morning Sean “Diddy” Combs was set to learn his fate over his alleged involvement in a 1999 nightclub shooting, he decided to make a pit stop. The music mogul had been at the center of a highly publicized trial alongside his Bad Boy protégé Shyne Barrow over shots …

T ucked between a taqueria and a discount tobacco store on downtown San Francisco’s Market Street sits the International Art Museum of America (IAMA). The white-column-framed double doors open into a towering hall with a pond and a mossy wooden treehouse. Upstairs, past a pair of imperial guardian lions, the …

Anitta is standing by her “Aceita” video. In a new interview with the Associated Press, Anitta revealed that she had lost more than 300,000 followers after she featured footage ofpractices from her Afro-Brazilian faith, Candomblé, in the video for her Funk Generation track. “I always knew this was going to …