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SANTIAGO, Chile, May 25 (UPI) --Once viewed as peripheral players, Protestant churches have risen over the past two decades to become influential actors in the spiritual and political realms ...

The efforts to resolve the dispute within the Malankara Church have received a boost with three Oriental Orthodox Churches stepping in to facilitate peace negotiations. According to sources ...

Leaders celebrate a quarter-million baptisms in 2024, the most since before the pandemic. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) continued its 18-year membership skid last year, while churches in ...

Antique pipe organs can still be found – and heard – in a few area churches. Cincinnati master organ builders Johann Heinrich Koehnken and Gallus Grimm cornered the local market from about ...

More churches are also looking to build. Leaders from multiple denominations who believe churches can play a bigger role in easing the housing shortage are asking the legislature to pass a bill ...

The ruling said the Trump administration has not been targeting churches, and that one church raid wasn’t significant harm. A federal judge on Friday declined to block the new Trump ...

Churches continue to be the target of robberies in South Africa, and some are now forced to pay for private security companies to keep their contents and congregants safe, which is a concern as ...

Authorities in Pasadena are investigating a suspicious death after police said they believe a man was shot in the neighborhood before crashing his car. The incident happened on Rio Grande Street ...

Rev. Jonathan Mason, of North East Baptist Church in Philadelphia, visits with pastors from Altadena and Pasadena churches in San Gabriel on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 as two truck loads of supplies ...