PARKERSBURG 鈥� Parkersburg Catholic Schools is moving forward with a long-discussed plan to bring its elementary, middle and high school students together on a single campus. 鈥淚t鈥檚 going to make this campus a unified campus from preschool all the way up to 12th grade,鈥� Bishop Mark E. ...
SWEET SPRINGS 鈥� Faith and history are still celebrated in Sweet Springs. Each summer on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, faithful Catholics and visitors to Monroe County get together to honor Mary and local history, and pay tribute to the pioneering priests, religious figures and ...
HARPERS FERRY 鈥� Master carpenter Ray Smith, a member of St. James the Greater in Charles Town, is painstakingly securing the foundation, tediously inspecting trusses and stabilizing the St. Joseph side of the sanctuary of the historic St. Peter鈥檚 Church in Harpers Ferry. As with any old ...
CHARLESTON 鈥� Months after West Virginia鈥檚 highest court stayed a ruling by a Raleigh County circuit judge allowing for religious exemptions to the state鈥檚 compulsory vaccination law for school-age children, parties in the case are making their case for the lower court ruling to be ...
JERUSALEM (AP) 鈥� Jerusalem's major holy sites are shuttered and families are dejected and exhausted ahead of Passover and Easter as the Iran war enters its fifth week. The mood stands in stark contrast to a usual spring, when longer days herald a period of family gatherings and an influx ...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) 鈥� Israeli police prevented Catholic leaders from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate a private Mass on the Christian holiday of Palm Sunday for the first time in centuries, setting off a wave of criticism from the United States and ...
