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When hope seems long gone, Christians can turn to Jesus to overcome being resigned to despair and regain the desire to be ...

In the south of Italy, Matera is known as the “City of Stones” for its architecture. For the next season of “The Chosen,” it ...

On this day in 1945, Private First Class John “Johnny” Córdova, the third generation of a proud family of Castaic ...