The Rev. Billy Graham’s body will lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda next week, the first time a private citizen has been accorded such recognition since civil rights hero Rosa Parks in 2005.
Religion
The Rev. Billy Graham, who packed stadiums across the country with his made-for-the masses sermons, brought his “crusades” — as he called them — to Las Vegas twice.
The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died Wednesday. He was 99.
It has been 73 years since Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day fell on the same day. It’s a dilemma the Rev. Steve Willis of First Christian Church was aware of, so he offered “ashes to go.”
The Mormon church appointed a 93-year-old former heart surgeon Tuesday as its new president, following a longstanding succession plan that aims to keep the faith on course with a minimum of upheaval.
Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74.
Hedy Lamarr was one of the most beautiful women in the world and served as the physical inspiration for Snow White and Catwoman.
The days of student backpacks in Lyon County serving as a sort of community billboard may be numbered after a dispute erupted over flyers submitted by a local church containing religious terms.
Funeral services for Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson have been set for Jan. 12 in Salt Lake City.
The man set to become the next Mormon church president is a 93-year-old former heart surgeon whose conservative track record on the religion’s leadership panel has led Mormon scholars to predict he won’t make any major changes.
Thomas S. Monson, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Monday night amid family in Salt Lake City, the church said Tuesday night.
“It took away from my own stress and anxiety, seeing how complete strangers were taking care of each other,” said the Rev. Ian Burgess, who offered spiritual support to the wounded at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson.
Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was 86.
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, the eight-day winter festival of lights, started Tuesday night and goes through Dec. 20.
Dash the winter blues and celebrate Hanukkah with the Eight Crazy Nights cocktail at La Cave Wine Food Hideaway at Wynn Las Vegas.