KANSAS CITY — The sermon was so animated, it was as if it were being acted out in mime. Instead, it was a deaf preacher signing a sermon to a deaf congregation. One recent Sunday, about 65 members of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Music, sermons, prayers, even confessions make up much of the experience of a typical religious service. So, for the deaf, how does faith flourish in an environment that so revolves ...

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - Worshipping at Paramount Baptist Deaf Church is not a silent affair. Deaf people who can speak joyfully shout during the baptism of one of their friends. A member of the ...

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The Lord’s Prayer ended with the bang of dozens of fists that landed on open palms after a circular motion and a thumbs up in a joint “Amen!” Not a voice could be heard inside the cavernous sanctuary ...

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FAYETTEVILLE Priscilla Scanlan grew up as the only deaf person in a hearing congregation. It wasn’t until she left her home in Fayetteville for Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., that she ...

The Word is a thing beyond words when pastor Dean Francini delivers a sermon in American Sign Language. "American Sign Language is more pictorial; it's a lot different than spoken English," said ...

Holy Angels Church of the Deaf in Vernon seems caught between two worlds, an anomalous ray of spirituality shining through the city's now famous corruption and graft, a tribute to life and ...

"Racial reconciliation must happen in the inner man before it can be lived out visibly by the outer man." Those words were written by the Rev. Billy Graham in a letter published in The Enquirer in ...

New York • The Lord’s Prayer ended with the bang of dozens of fists that landed on open palms after a circular motion and a thumbs up in a joint “Amen!” Not a voice could be heard inside the cavernous ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Lord’s Prayer ended with the bang of dozens of fists that landed on open palms after a circular motion and a thumbs up in a joint “Amen!” Not a voice could be heard inside the ...