Context is a third critical difference. When Deaf believers study the Bible, they’ll start with the passage’s context before digging deeper. “A lot of Deaf people grow up in families where everybody ...

Jerry Pearson recently taught about the importance of forgiving others, and people acting as peacemakers in society. Pearson taught the message through the use of American Sign Language (ASL) at the ...

The church bulletin featured news items about local health services for the Deaf, information about finding sign language interpreters for Catholic funerals, and a class for adults who are deaf and ...

While the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress in Indiana had ASL interpreters, Father Depcik wanted to focus on the Deaf community by holding this congress. Father Mike Depcik, one of the few Deaf ...

In a moment that some thought might never come, Deaf Catholics from across the country stood side by side, hands raised in prayer, signing in unison -- worshipping in their own language at the ...

Father Michael Depcik, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales in the Archdiocese of Baltimore who is deaf, converses with Chris Duck, retired coordinator of deaf ministry for the archdiocese, from left, ...

"For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more." RUTHERFORDTON, N.C., May 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Christian Lingua, a global leader in ...

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. -- Brian Sims was sitting in traffic when a car with a booming stereo pulled up next to him. Feeling vibrations from the pulsating vehicle, the Baptist pastor who ministers to the ...

The worship service starts out much like that of other Christian congregations. People file into the pews, prayers are said, songs are sung and announcements are made. What sets the 10:45 a.m. Sunday ...

The occasional boom of a bass drum punctuates the Mass at St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center on the Northwest Side, signaling particularly important moments during the liturgical service, which is ...