Evangelicalism

The Slovenian Protestant community in Bethlehem in the US state of Pennsylvania will soon be left without their church. More than 110 years after being built by the community, St John's Windish Evangelical Lutheran Church is being sold. The town's Slovenian Catholics are in the process of losing their church as well.

While large numbers of Greeks did not arrive in the US until the 1880s, quite a few made their way across the Atlantic much earlier. In my own state of Maryland, archives indicate that Michael Ury (Youris) became a naturalized citizen by act of the General Assembly of Maryland in 1725.

In a single move, US President Donald Trump has reversed Washington's policy on a hotly contested and highly sensitive issue: the status of Jerusalem. His recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a profoundly symbolic gesture that has sparked reactions in many world capitals. Observers are speculating about the motivations behind such an explosive foreign policy decision.

A very attractive way to keep the children close to the church found a priest from Peloponnese. He decided to give a prize to the kids who will attend the Sunday School. “If the children attend Sunday School without absence, at the end they will be included in a ballot for a tablet”, the priest from Taraboura region in Patra said leaving everyone speechless.

The number of Americans who don't affiliate with a particular religion has grown to 56 million in recent years, making the faith group researchers call "nones" the second-largest in total numbers behind evangelicals, according to a Pew Research Center study released May 12.

Christianity is still the dominant faith by far in the U.S.; 7 in 10 Americans identify with the tradition.