This year was the first time the Garland Asian American Heritage Festival was held in the city’s downtown square.
In his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff, Leo said, “Never again war!”
“This is a moment of profound hope and renewal for the church, as our Lord has provided a new shepherd to guide us in faith, truth and charity,” Dallas’ Bishop Edward J. Burns said.
Leaders across America celebrated Pope Leo XIV’s announcement Thursday.
In a 1952 proclamation, President Harry S. Truman described the purpose of the annual observance.
Bishop T.D. Jakes announced April 27 that his daughter and son-in-law will take over leadership of his church later this year.
‘Pope Francis called us to the margins,’ said Dallas Bishop Edward J. Burns at the Monday evening Mass.
Jakes announced he will hand over the leadership of the church to his daughter and son-in-law.
After the transition, Jakes will continue in his role as chairman of the T.D. Jakes Group, which includes his real estate company, social impact holding company and T.D. Jakes Foundation.
“He lived his ministry with humility and boundless care for every soul,” Dallas’ Bishop Edward J. Burns said of the late pope.
Stan Copeland, retiring senior pastor of Lovers Lane UMC, will deliver his last sermon on Easter Sunday; the resurrection story can give new life to people in “tomb times,” or times that “depress and divide us.”
The holiday commemorates a story in the Torah where God spared, or “passed over,” the firstborn sons of Israelite families.
Local rabbis and Jewish community leaders shared the challenges of interfaith dialogue and relationships during a time of fear, division and rising antisemitic incidents.
When Church World Service’s caseworkers were dwindling, the Rio Valley Relief Project stepped in to ensure Dallas refugees didn’t feel alone or stranded.
The “right side of my heart had completely stopped getting blood at all,” the senior pastor of The Potter’s House said.
Lawyers with expertise in sex abuse cases examined the strategy Oklahoma’s attorney general is using to prosecute Gateway founder Robert Morris.
The bill, sponsored by Plano Rep. Jeff Leach, would stop a non-disclosure agreement from preventing a victim from talking about their abuse.
The church’s former senior pastor Robert Morris faces up to 100 years in prison if convicted on all five counts of lewd or indecent acts.
A woman who says she was sexually abused by Pastor Robert Morris as a teen is finally living without shame.
Six former staffers of Gateway Church and the chair of its elder board examine a moment of reckoning at the Southlake megachurch.
