HARPERS FERRY — Master carpenter Ray Smith, a member of St. James the Greater in Charles Town, is painstakingly securing the foundation, tediously inspecting trusses and stabilizing the St. Joseph side of the sanctuary of the historic St. Peter’s Church in Harpers Ferry. As with any old ...

CHARLESTON – Months after West Virginia’s highest court stayed a ruling by a Raleigh County circuit judge allowing for religious exemptions to the state’s compulsory vaccination law for school-age children, parties in the case are making their case for the lower court ruling to be ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jerusalem's major holy sites are shuttered and families are dejected and exhausted ahead of Passover and Easter as the Iran war enters its fifth week. The mood stands in stark contrast to a usual spring, when longer days herald a period of family gatherings and an influx ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli police prevented Catholic leaders from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate a private Mass on the Christian holiday of Palm Sunday for the first time in centuries, setting off a wave of criticism from the United States and ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that God doesn't listen to the prayers of those who make war or cite God to justify their violence, as he prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East during a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. With the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran entering ...

PARKERSBURG — The annual Good Friday Community Stations of the Cross will be held at noon April 3 starting at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 532 Market St. The interdenominational walk will go to several downtown churches to memorialize Jesus Christ’s journey through Jerusalem on the ...