NEW YORK – Anna Wade often sits in a church pew on Sunday and “kind of spaces out a little bit” until it’s time for communion, and then, she said, “that’s it.” Wade’s lack of attention, though, has ...
NEW YORK (RNS) — On a Thursday afternoon early this summer, seven people sat in a circle in the basement of St. George’s Episcopal Church in midtown Manhattan, facing a whiteboard covered with ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We worship the same God as you. We sure can't hear, but we can feel it.” – Pastor Seth Sobral NORTH KINGSTOWN – You could easily ...
When Fr. Min Seo Park, a deaf Catholic priest from South Korea, celebrated his first livestreamed Mass in American Sign Language, or ASL, on Feb. 6, over 800 viewers, many of them likely deaf ...
Ron and Wanda Ferris of Chicago found more than a church to feel completely comfortable at when they first attended services at the Oak Brook Community Deaf Church, a ministry of Oak Brook Community ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island’s only deaf church held its services at a new location on Sunday -- with services conducted in American Sign Language (ASL) and voiced for a hearing audience. The ...
The silence suggested that this was no ordinary church service. Only a few people opened their mouths to sing on a recent Sunday at Woodhaven Baptist Deaf Church. Instead, most moved their bodies to ...