Someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus statue from the National Shrine of St. John Neumann, the director said.

Rabbanit Leah Sarna, the first senior rabbinic leader of her Orthodox synagogue, opens a crack in a persistent glass ceiling.

Six of Maharat’s alumnae have founded their own communities, in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Haifa, Tel Aviv, London and Paris. Others were hired to lead or co-lead congregations across the United States.

A Licking County church opened its doors as an emergency warming shelter for those in need. Deb Dingus is the pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on West Main Street in Newark. She said about 50 ...