Finding Faith

With over 100 million viewers, "The Chosen" is the crowd-funded streaming show that has tapped into the power of Jesus. FOX 5 NY takes a closer look ahead of the Season 4 premiere.

On September 11, Paul Carris saved Judith Toppin's life by guiding her out of the World Trade Center. That act of kindness led him to a new appreciation of faith and a new life.

A Long Island man is on a mission to help a renowned Catholic activist achieve sainthood. He credits the blessed Pierre Giorgio Frassati for saving his life after a traumatic injury.

Sister Monica Clare, an episcopal nun in New Jersey, felt social media would be a good way to reach out to folks needing spiritual and human connections during COVID. So she created a Tik Tok account called @nunsenseforthepeople.

Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Espaillat is not only the youngest Bishop in the U.S., but he is the first Dominican to reach that rank as well.

Membership in Virtual Reality Church increased dramatically during the COVID shutdown. Worshippers attend using virtual reality headsets and create an avatar. Everything from scripture readings to baptisms can take place in the metaverse.

Masbia executive director Alexander Rappaport said families who are food insecure deserve to be able to properly celebrate the Jewish holidays.

Carlo Acutis looked like an ordinary teenager. However, Catholics around the world and Pope Francis believe that, during his short life, what he did here on Earth was extraordinary.

If you want to fully appreciate the magnificence of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown Manhattan, you must look up to properly take in the majestic ceiling.

Fr. Mike Schmitz, a Catholic priest, hosts a new podcast called  "The Bible in a Year".

John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, with millions of travelers passing through it each year.

The Buddhist Association of the United States President Bhikkhu Bodhi was ordained as a Buddhist monk nearly 50 years ago while living in Sri Lanka. And before 1973, Jeffery Block, as Bhikkhu Bodhi was then known, lived in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where he grew up in a secular Jewish family.

Mother Teresa was born in 1910. She died September 1997 at the age of 87. Born in Albania, she joined a religious order of Irish Catholic nuns. Later she would ask permission from the pope to found her own her order, the Missionaries of Charity. Her sisters are still doing her work around the world and in Harlem, Greenwich Village, Brooklyn and the South Bronx.

Ah love. We seem obsessed with the search for it and the struggle to keep it.

New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey's stunning resignation 12 years ago catapulted him into the national spotlight when he proclaimed himself a "gay American." at the time, the married governor had been backed into a corner facing a possible sexual harassment lawsuit from his homeland security adviser, Golen Cipel.

Park East Synagogue Rabbi Arthur Schneier talked with Fox 5 about the meaning of Jewish celebration of Passover, a spring festival that marks the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

On a recent night in Newark, the Prudential Center has been transformed into a mega-church. Lights, cameras, and a Christian rock band warmed up the 14,000 faithful. The crowd was waiting eagerly for famed Texas televangelist Joel Osteen.