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Mark A. Kellner

Mark A. Kellner was a Faith & Family reporter for The Washington Times.

Articles by Mark A. Kellner

FILE - Peter Scolari arrives at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, 2016. Scolari, a versatile character actor whose television roles included a yuppie producer on “Newhart” and a closeted dad on “Girls” and who was on Broadway in “Hairspray” and “Wicked,” died Friday morning in New York after fighting cancer for two years, according to Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, his longtime manager. He was 66. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Peter Scolari, ‘Bosom Buddies’ co-star with Tom Hanks, dies from cancer at 66

Peter Scolari, whose comic timing won legions of fans and a lifelong friendship with "Bosom Buddies" co-star Tom Hanks, died Friday of cancer at age 66 following a two-year fight against the disease. His agent, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky at Wright Entertainment, disclosed his death, according to numerous media reports. Published October 22, 2021

Audience members attend the dedication ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral for the cathedral's new stone carving of Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Three D.C. churches, including city’s oldest Black congregation, snag six-figure preservation grants

The Rev. Selena Johnson, the pastor of Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Georgetown, celebrated her birthday Thursday sharing cupcakes with her family. Earlier in the day, Ms. Johnson received a different birthday gift: formal notification that Mount Zion -- the District's oldest Black congregation at 205 years old -- will receive $100,000 from the National Fund for Sacred Places. Published October 22, 2021

In this May 29, 2010, photo, people from a minority Muslim Ahmadi community stand guard as others prepare to bury the victims of an attack by Islamic militants, in Rubwah, 93 miles northwest of Lahore, Pakistan. President Joe Biden has appointed philanthropist Susie Gelman to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, the White House announced Friday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) **FILE**

Non-Sunni Muslims face persecution in Africa, U.S. report says

While many Muslims in Africa live and practice their faith in peace, governments from Egypt to Guinea persecute minority Muslim communities, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported Wednesday. Published October 20, 2021

FILE - In this June 16, 2021, file photo, people attend the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn. A top Southern Baptist Convention administrator is resigning after weeks of internal division over how best to handle an investigation into the denomination’s response to sexual abuse reports. Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the SBC’s Executive Committee, announced his departure Thursday, Oct. 14, in a statement. He said he will leave the post at the end of the month. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Baptist missions group tells new churches to nix women preachers

Southern Baptists seeking to establish new congregations will be endorsed by the denomination's missions arm only if they promise not to have women preach from the pulpit or be ordained as pastors, according to a new statement. Published October 19, 2021

This Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021, photo shows the logo for Christian Aid Ministries in Berlin, Ohio, on a vehicle. A group of 17 missionaries including children has been kidnapped by a gang in Haiti, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by the organization. The message from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said the missionaries were on their way home from building an orphanage. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)

Kidnapped Americans part of 40-year-old, U.S.-based missionary group

The Ohio-based missionary group Christian Aid Ministries -- whose 17 workers and children were kidnapped by a Haitian gang on Saturday -- had only returned to the nation in 2020 after a nine-month absence that came amid reports of growing lawlessness on the island. Published October 18, 2021

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No more ‘American way’ for Superman, DC Comics boss says

Generations of young television viewers knew Superman -- the "Man of Steel" masquerading as a daily newspaper reporter -- as a Krypton-born, Kansas-bred hero who battled evil to promote "truth, justice, and the American way." Published October 17, 2021

Protesters opposing vaccine mandates gather at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. Two vaccine-related bills failed to advance in the final week of the state legislative session. But the rally's organizers said they wanted to let lawmakers know many people opposed those bills in case they tried to bring them back next year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) ** FILE **

Pro-life group says vaccine protest curbs too broad in California

A six-day-old California law banning protests within 100 feet of any facility offering any type of vaccination was challenged in federal court Wednesday by a pro-life group that says the measure blocks its protests at a Fresno abortion facility. Published October 13, 2021

The cover art for an October 2021 report on "Uzbekistan's Religious and Political Prisoners" published by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is shown here. (www.uscirf.gov) [https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/2021%20Uzbekistan%20Report_0.pdf]

More than 2,000 religious prisoners languish in Uzbekistan, U.S. agency reports

The government of Uzbekistan continues to jail "over 2,000 peaceful religious believers -- more than the entire population of religious prisoners in all the former Soviet states combined and one of the largest in the world," the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reported Wednesday. Published October 13, 2021

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong speaks to the media in Hartford, Conn.(AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Connecticut ‘gag rule’ challenged by pro-life center in federal lawsuit

A pro-life pregnancy center in New London, Connecticut, sued Attorney General William Tong in federal court Tuesday, challenging the state's "gag rule" on what a 2021 law calls "limited pregnancy resource centers," alleging such groups may practice "deceptive advertising" by speaking against abortion. Published October 12, 2021