Church

The death toll from the tragic flash flood that swept away members of a church congregation along the Jukskei River in Johannesburg has risen from nine to 14.

Police announced today that they have arrested two men for the million dollar heist, but a third suspect is on the run right now. Myles Miller reports.

A fire ripped through a packed church during morning services in Egypt’s capital, killing at least 41 worshippers and injuring 14.

Houses of worship are meant to be places of shelter, reflection and peace, where strangers are welcome.

Recent weeks have seen an especially intense set of revelations about sexual assault and misconduct in U.S. churches.

Two people and a gunman are dead after a shooting outside an Iowa church on Thursday

The music director at the United Parish in Brookline recently realized there was no way to pay the royalties for spirituals they sing in choir and in places of worship around the world.

When a church choir performs royalties are often paid to those who originally wrote the music, but that is not true if the songwriters were enslaved people. A Brookline church is working to right that wrong.

In-person attendance at houses of worship across the U.S. has slowly risen from dramatically low levels when the pandemic surged in the spring of 2020.

When Americans are asked by pollsters about their religious identity, the fastest-growing major group consists of those who don’t affiliate with any organized religion.

Senior Pastor Mike Laird was looking for a new building to house the Christian church, New England Chapel, when he saw a for sale sign outside of a bowling alley in Franklin, Massachusetts.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday

Multiple faith leaders – including an Episcopal minister whose LGBTQ identity was central to her faith journey – say religious institutions should be more accepting of LGBTQ people.

A Black Lives Matter sign was missing and what appeared to be a noose was found hanging on the sign in front of a Danvers church earlier this week, according to the Massachusetts town’s police department. A volunteer reported the possible hate crime at the Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church on Locust Street around 8 p.m. Wednesday night, police said....

Police in Everett, Massachusetts, are investigating vandalism at a church with a largely Black congregation as a possible hate crime, authorities said. A large wooden cross that stood outside the Zion Bapist Church was uprooted and left in an adjacent yard, Bishop Robert G. Brown, senior pastor of the church, told The Boston Globe. The church’s office manager noticed...

Police in Everett, Massachusetts, are investigating vandalism at a church with a largely Black congregation as a possible hate crime, authorities said. A large wooden cross that stood outside the Zion Bapist Church was uprooted and left in an adjacent yard, Bishop Robert G. Brown, senior pastor of the church, told The Boston Globe. The church’s office manager noticed...

A Middlebury, Vermont church received over half a million dollars in donations to boost area farms and restaurants hit hard by the pandemic.

For Easter Sunday, to ensure everyone’s safety, some congregations took things outside.

St. Patrick Parish in Stoneham, Massachusetts, has canceled Easter masses amid a coronavirus outbreak among staff and clergy, according to the pastor. Four office staff and one deacon have tested positive, according to Father Mario Orrigo, the pastor at St. Patrick, who explained that the numbers have grown since Monday. “I don’t want the parish to become an area...

Virtual services are now the norm for many churches, but after not being able to celebrate Easter in-person due to the pandemic last year, many houses of worship have gotten creative to ensure this year’s Holy Week experience is safe and fulfilling. “We found they’re craving it, so we’re trying to give them that opportunity, but at the same...