LAKEWOOD - When his synagogue announced on March 19 that it was shutting down indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, Avrohom Yeshaya Mermelstein rushed into the building to get a pair of ...

Rabbi Zsolt Balla, praying alone in Leipzig, is all of us this pandemic spring. (JTA) — On a Friday early in the coronavirus crisis, isolated in my apartment and facing the first of what would be many ...

"Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed" (Mark 1:35). This verse is from the Gospel of Mark, one of the three synoptic Gospels. The Gospel of Mark is ...

“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God,” said Mother Teresa, who was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church a year ago as St. Teresa of Calcutta. Many Long Islanders ...

The world is desperate for people to pray with. But when I look at common posts like this one on Facebook or Twitter, I see a similar phenomenon without the payment plan. People toss their earnest ...

In these new Friday mornings, Hussein Ali turns off the television. He asks his wife and five daughters to leave the room. He places a rug on the floor between two beds and a small refrigerator, faces ...