Christian leaders in Jamaica are voicing strong opposition to a campaign to repeal the nation’s Obeah Act, warning that legalizing the folk spiritual practice would open the door to “confusion” and ...
The Jamaica Evangelical Alliance has condemned the fatal shooting of a woman at a church in western Jamaica, while the pastor of the congregation where the attack occurred said the church would ...
(Jamaica Observer) SOME members of an Apostolic Church in St Catherine are up in arms after they were ordered by their pastor to sit in the back benches of the church. The church members had attended ...
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Volunteers packed and served hot plates of authentic Jamaican food with a purpose. It’s all part of a fundraising effort that will raise money to buy essential supplies and food ...
Baptist minister Reverend Dr Glenroy Lalor has taken issue with the use of the Jamaican language, commonly called patwa (patoi ...
Religious churchgoers stand up for gay rights Punishment for sodomy in the country is 10 years in prison Island%27s high court will begin hearing a petition by a gay rights activist KINGSTON, Jamaica ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Philadelphia church is working with a local organization to provide sanctuary for a Jamaican family who is fighting deportation after 16 years in the U.S. Oneita and Clive ...
(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is urging the pastor accused of sodomising a teenage boy in St Ann, in 2018, to turn himself in to the police. “We appeal to ...
A group of Westchester churches on Monday, Nov. 17, will wrap up their three-day collection of relief supplies for a Jamaican parish severely damaged by Hurricane Melissa. The effort spearheaded by ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Cut off the reggae music, we're not talking about THAT Jamaica. We're talking about Jamaica: hah-MY-cuh; the hibiscus flower, AKA the key ingredient of the delicious floral tea ...
In a 2006 The Gleaner /Bill Johnson poll, 65 per cent of Jamaicans said they take the Bible seriously, and 80 per cent said they attended church regularly or occasionally. The 2011 Statistical ...