VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is opening a celebration of the popemobile, the now-iconic vehicle that for nearly a century has let popes get close to the faithful at home and abroad. The Vatican Museums recently unveiled a preview of the exhibition commemorating "A Century of the ...
JERUSALEM (RNS) — When Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, an Orthodox Jew who lives in Jerusalem, first arrived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 2011 to research Amish communities, she had only visited the U.S. once and could barely speak English. But after years of researching women in ...
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Luke 18:25 Jesus used the illustration of the Needle’s Eye and the camel because it was an entrance into the city of Jerusalem. All the people would have been familiar ...
Matthew 14:22-36 The world is getting scarier all the time. You never know what perfectly terrifying thing will happen next, even in a small town. Consider the frightening experience a lonely widow named Wilma Sullivan suffered in Portageville, Missouri. She went to bed at about 11:30. ...
[Editor’s Note: This is part two of a three-part article by Dr. James Barnes] Demons are fallen angels who operate in the kingdom of darkness. They indwell unbelievers. This is a little girl. A young girl, an unmarried girl, under the age of 12 or 13, for that was the age girls usually ...
LEWISTOWN — The Borough of Lewistown will begin fall leaf collection Monday, and continue through Friday, Dec. 4. Leaves will be collected Monday through Friday on the next working day following residents’ regular refuse collection day. Residents should place leaves at the curb in plastic trash bags before 6 a.m. on their scheduled pickup day. Borough refuse tags are not required. Leaves may not be raked loose into the street or mixed with grass clippings, yard waste or other materials. After Dec. 4, residents may drop off leaves at no charge at the borough warehouse, 249 ...
