An Atlanta church with a viral pastor has grown from less than 200 weekly churchgoers in 2023 to about 6,000 today.

Former New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry says God set him free when he was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

A woman was sentenced Thursday in the 2022 stabbing death of her boyfriend and the victim’s family said they have waited more than two years for justice.

TreVeyon Henderson had touchdown runs of 69 and 55 yards, Drake Maye threw two TD passes, and the New England Patriots beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 28-23 for their seventh straight win.

A Nassau County resident received the keys to a brand new home constructed through the county’s State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP), which provides down payment and rehabilitation assistance for individuals in need.

A Jacksonville woman made a plea to the public to help find the driver responsible for hitting her brother, who is in a wheelchair, leaving him with broken bones.

Celebrities have begun paying tribute to R&B and neo-soul icon D’Angelo.

Palestinians in Gaza have welcomed the news of an agreement on the first phase of a peace plan between Israel and Hamas.

Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Robert Roberson hopes he will again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

Indonesian rescuers have recovered dozens of bodies over the weekend alone after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed last week.

Men's group for mental and emotional well being

A South African man's prophecy about the Rapture has gone viral.

The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV.

"Thoughts and prayers."

The pews of a Minneapolis church were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren paired with older ‘buddies’ listening to a prayer on their third day of the new school year.

An Amish woman is accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake as a test of her faith.

Atlanta rappers JID and Offset have new albums out this month.

Kalen DeBoer is looking to restore Alabama as one of the nation's top college football teams.

One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man.

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse.

A pastor says God had a hand in preventing a mass shooting at his suburban Detroit church where more than 100 people had gathered to worship.

Muslims will soon welcome a new lunar year in what's known as the Hijri calendar.

R&B legend Shirley Murdock is heading back to Jacksonville — and this time, she’s sharing the stage with music royalty.

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday.

More than 1.6 million Muslims are completing a core element of the Hajj, the symbolic stoning of the devil.

Less spending, higher prices and fewer animal sacrifices subdued the usual festive mood as the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha was celebrated in many parts of the world.

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh.

Louisiana lawmakers have for the third consecutive year rejected a bill that would have added some rape cases to the narrow list of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban.

Large numbers of Muslims converge once a year on Saudi Arabia to unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that is one of the pillars of Islam.

Some people thought the 1925 Scopes monkey trial marked a cultural defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

The 1925 Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

In his public appearance as pope, Leo called himself an Augustinian, putting an unusual spotlight on his religious order.

Jacksonville and St. Augustine Catholics reacted to the papal conclave’s choice of Pope Leo XIV.

“Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic voting to elect a new pope has been going on for centuries and created a whole genre of historical trivia.

Two general managers and one head coach were surprised Shedeur Sanders wasn’t selected Thursday night because their teams had first-round grades on him, they told The Associated Press.

Zeev Buium was trying to help lead Denver to the NCAA’s Frozen Four championship less than two weeks ago.

Nico Iamaleava says he’s heading to UCLA, a week after Tennessee announced the quarterback who helped the Volunteers reach last season’s College Football Playoff was no longer with the program.

Dustin May allowed just one hit and an unearned run for the Los Angeles Dodgers in his first major league start in nearly two years.

Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the United States.

TCU standout guard Hailey Van Lith says it was difficult, but she's glad to have shared publicly about mental health struggles she says she dealt with early in her basketball career.

Protesters on each side of the abortion debate have packed a hallway of Georgia's Capitol during a hearing on a bill that would ban most abortions.

Texas Rangers left-hander Cody Bradford says he realized early in his development that he probably wouldn’t ever possess the type of fastball that causes scouts to take a second look at their radar guns.

Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan got sick in the second half of the Heat-Knicks game, interrupting the action at Madison Square Garden.

A Florida man has been put to death for the 1997 killings of a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple's toddler.

President Donald Trump says at a private religious group's Washington prayer breakfast he's forming a commission on religious liberty.

Five decades of war among leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, drug lords and the government in Colombia have left 450,000 people killed and more than 124,000 disappeared.

Two friends from California, Learner Tien and Alex Michelsen, have both reached the fourth round at the Australian Open.

Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren are separating after 16 years of marriage.

The Native American Church is the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America.

This holiday season, some religious congregations across the U.S. are holding events designed to be accommodating to and inclusive of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

About 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, but what, exactly, is an angel.

For Christians around the world, Christmas is the joyful celebration of the birth of Jesus.

Born in Ghana, Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa had never encountered a nun until adulthood.

Running 4 Heroes, Inc. is hosting a running event Wednesday night to honor and support the lives of two fallen Jacksonville first responders.

Camden County senior tight end Elyiss Williams is a consensus four-star recruit according to the four major recruiting services.

Israel Vázquez, the Mexican fighter who won three bantamweight world titles, has died at 46.

Colombia hosts the largest population of migrants and refugees from Venezuela, where more than 7.7 million have left since 2014 for economic, political and safety reasons.

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Among the nation’s charismatic Christians, there’s one highly politicized faction in particular that believes the reelection of former President Donald Trump would be a win in a literal spiritual war of angels in demons.

Mary Jones, a longtime dispatcher for the Sparta Police Department in Georgia, was killed in the Sept. 12 crash. Sparta is a small community between Atlanta and Augusta.

For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole.

It has been one year since the top floor of a three-story parking garage at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside on King Street partially collapsed and left multiple cars damaged.

Camden Special Steps was founded by Marcia Whitfield to provide local adults with exceptional needs a space to socialize and connect.

Robert’s Western World is Nashville’s most iconic honky tonk and practically synonymous with country music.

A St. Johns County student is one of this year’s recipients of the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Scholarship.

A Texas church has not one — but two — members aboard the International Space Station.

Pascal Kanyemera has no doubts: Back in 1994, when he survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, God had his back.

The University of Florida President Ben Sasse announced Thursday night that he will resign from his position on July 31.

A father in Gaza is mourning a baby boy killed in bed by an Israeli airstrike.

It was a joyous reunion Tuesday at Naval Station Mayport for hundreds of sailors aboard the USS Mason.

It’s been 100 years since a Scottish runner famously refused to race on a Sunday at the Paris Olympics because of his Christian beliefs.

Thermometers were reading in the low 90s on Wednesday afternoon but it felt like 104 degrees.

Masses of pilgrims have embarked on a symbolic stoning of the devil in Saudi Arabia, marking the final days of Hajj pilgrimage and the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations for Muslims around the world.

Before flying to Italy’s southern Puglia region to meet world leaders at the Group of Seven summit, Pope Francis hosted a very different audience at the Vatican celebrating the importance of humor.

Once a year, Muslims coming to Saudi Arabia unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform Hajj, one of the pillars of Islam.

During his playing days, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says, he would not have volunteered to be interviewed on live television in the middle of a major league game.

Andra Day gained acting acclaim after her starring role in a 2021 Billie Holiday biopic, but the soulful singer nearly lost the strength of her powerful voice during the process.

It might seem like the end of an era for some. But as longtime New4JAX lead anchor Tom Wills embarks on his new life-calling of retirement, it’s a new beginning — guided by God.

Pope Francis’ apology for using a vulgar term to refer to gay men was the latest comment to make headlines about the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality.

The Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley had always loved the Black Church, and developed an ambition in his youth to become a pastor even as he realized he was gay.

The North America’s Building Trades Unions has endorsed President Joe Biden.

Former JEA CEO Aaron Zahn was found guilty by a federal jury on Friday of attempting to defraud the city-owned utility.

The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex.

A Malaysian shoe company has apologized and stopped selling some of its footwear after some Muslims said the logo resembled the Arabic writing for the word God.

Almost two years after a Jacksonville teenager was shot and killed just a few hours after receiving his high school diploma, his family is still waiting to see his killer behind bars.

Former JEA CEO Aaron Zahn was found guilty by a federal jury on Friday of attempting to defraud the city-owned utility.

The Cove is a pop-up, 18-and-up Christian nightclub in Nashville, Tennessee.

The families of the two other Georgia fishermen who went missing in October off the coast of Brunswick are holding a celebration of life ceremony to honor the men.

Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone said he will permanently leave California and will be moving to Florida, according to an announcement he made during his reality TV show “The Family Stallone.”

Many Americans believe the United States was founded as a Christian nation.

Large numbers of Americans believe the founders intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation.

A teenager was killed Tuesday night in a shooting in the Murray Hill neighborhood.

A Jacksonville mom wants to send a reminder to drivers: Be careful and remember the rules of the road when sharing the street with buses.

The family of one of the three boaters missing off the coast of Brunswick announced they will be holding a special service to honor and remember his life.

Republican presidential candidates these days are barely discussing abortion in Iowa just days away from the state's caucuses.

In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar have issued a unified statement refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples.

Family, friends and the community attended The Bethel Church to celebrate the life of Charles Scriven Saturday morning.

Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the world."

From Jesus' biblical birthplace of Bethlehem to New York City, many Palestinian Christians this Christmas season are gripped with helplessness, pain and worry amid the Israel-Hamas war.