BRUNSWICK — The Hyssongs will be presenting a concert of gospel music at the Brunswick Church of the Nazarene in Brunswick July 17 at 6 p.m. The group has been singing together as a family for 20 years. They perform at more than 250 events each year throughout the United States and Canada.

ORR’S ISLAND — On Sunday, Rev. Harold Hallock will preside over the service Sunday at All Saint’s Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane, off Harpswell Islands Road/Route 24 on Orr’s Island. Services take place at the church at 9 a.m. Sundays through Sept. 25. For more information about the church and its services, call (207) […]

“For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.” Jeremiah 29: 11- 12 Prayer Someone once said that “Prayer gives […]

BEIRUT Muslims around the world are celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday this week, a time for family and feasting, to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan and its daytime fasting. Businesses closed across the Muslim world, as people dressed up and visited relatives, enjoying their first daytime meals in a lunar month. […]

BERLIN It’s the first time that Syrian refugee Moustafa Shikh Habib is celebrating the end of the fasting month of Ramadan in Germany and he has bittersweet feelings about it. The 36-year-old Kurd lives with his wife and four children in two little cramped rooms at a huge asylum center in Berlin and says it […]

I wasn’t going to read the news reports on the murders at the Bangladeshi café. I was scanning the paper on Sunday morning when I saw the headline on the siege at the Dhaka bakery and passed right over it, not wanting to see one more bloody, terrifying image of pure hate. But the horror […]

HARPSWELL — All Saints by the Sea Episcopal Chapel on Bailey Island will hold the opening service of its 100th year on Sunday, July 3 at 9:30 a.m. The celebrant will be Rev. Bennett Barnes of Brunswick. The historic chapel is located on Washington Avenue. All are welcome.

EDGECOMB — Edgecomb Community Church, UCC will be holding a week-long vacation bible school, July 11-15 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. This year’s theme is “Surf Shack: Catch the Wave of God’s Amazing Love.” The students will also participate in a variety of activities, including making their own art projects, singing new music at Tidal […]

ORR’S ISLAND — On Sunday, Rev. Ellen Shaver will preside over the service Sunday at All Saint’s Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane, off Harpswell Islands Road/Route 24 on Orr’s Island. Services take place at the church at 9 a.m. Sundays, through Sept. 25. For more information about the church and its services, call (207) […]

BOSTON A Harvard professor who caused a huge splash when she unveiled a small fragment of papyrus that she said referred to Jesus being married now says it’s likely a forgery. Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King presented the piece of papyrus in Rome in 2012. The fragment, written in Coptic, includes the phrase, “Jesus […]