Across U.S., houses of worship struggle to rebuild attendance
Rev. Meredith Mills delivers a sermon from the pulpit for about 30 attendants during the second service of the day in the sanctuary Dec. 12 at Westminster United Methodist Church…
Rev. Meredith Mills delivers a sermon from the pulpit for about 30 attendants during the second service of the day in the sanctuary Dec. 12 at Westminster United Methodist Church…
Nathalie Charles poses for a portrait outside the Princeton University Chapel in Princeton, N.J. Charles left her Baptist church at the age of 15 because as a queer woman of…
Sister Luzia Premoli takes a selfie Feb. 12 with a young girl in the village of Bagandou in the Central African Republic. In 2014, Pope Francis appointed Premoli to a…
Caroline McDonald, left, a student at Georgetown University, Lauren Morrissey, with Catholics for Choice, and Pamela Huber of Washington join a abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court on Nov. 1,…
Sister Barbara Battista speaks during a protest Aug. 26, 2020, against the death penalty, across the street from the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., before the execution of…
This 2018 photo provided by the family shows Rachel Held Evans and her husband, Dan Evans, with their children, Henry and Harper, in Dayton, Tenn. Rachel, a Christian author, died…
Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of archaeology, holds a one-cent coin from 1817 on Oct. 6 in Williamsburg, Va. The coin helped archaeologists confirm that a recently unearthed brick-and-mortar foundation…
Artist Kerry James Marshall speaks at a news conference Sept. 23 after being selected to design a replacement of former Confederate-themed stained glass windows that were taken down in 2017…
The Rev. Alex Chavez stands in front of the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church construction site in Visalia, Calif., on Aug. 26. Chavez says the large-scale parish – which has…
Pharmacy technician Hollie Maloney loads a syringe March 2 with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press file)onset An estimated 2,600 Los Angeles…
Barbie H. leads a protest Sept. 1 against the six-week abortion ban at the Capitol in Austin, Texas. Dozens of people protested the abortion restriction law that went into effect…
Berny Lopez, an operations specialist for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, moves donated diapers at the organization's drop-off site Aug. 31 to help refugees from Afghanistan, in Baltimore. Many different…
cca It’s a Bible verse familiar to many Christians – and even to many non-Christians who have seen John 3:16 on billboards and T-shirts or scrawled across eye black under…
Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain with the New York City Fire Department, stands at the shore July 17, 2000, before a service where 230 candles were lit for the July…
Tony Spell, pastor of the Life Tabernacle Church of Central City, La., prays June 7 with supporters outside the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Health officials have…
This image provided by Facebook in August 2021 shows a simulation of the social media company’s prayer request feature. The tool has been embraced by some religious leaders as a…
Students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska, in the summer of 1883. U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th…
People in Amish country prepare a horse team to work on a farm in Pulaski, Pa., on June 23. The vaccination drive is lagging far behind in many Amish communities…
Spiritual Experiences Group of Durango will host these events in July: 7 p.m. July 7: Engage – Advanced Spiritual Living. Learn about personal transformation and how to take charge of…
Spiritual Experiences Group of Durango will host a three-part series about creating a spiritual home, with the first discussion taking place at 7 p.m. June 27 on MeetUp. Part 1…
Spiritual Experiences Group of Durango will host these events in June: 7 p.m. Wednesday June 2: Light and sound, the divine language. Discover what can be seen, heard and felt…
Each meeting offers a new spiritual topic for discussion. Participants practice exercises and contemplation, and discuss how to incorporate lessons into daily life and expand awareness. This Meetup group, sponsored…
Some of the critics wondered if worshippers would now need “vaccine passports” to enter The Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina, where Greear is pastor. Others depicted the vaccines as…
7 p.m. Wednesday: “Soul Travel.” 10:30 a.m. April 11: “Creative Power of Soul.” 3 p.m. April 12: “What is True Happiness.”7 p.m. April 14: “The Power of Gratitude.”7 p.m. April…
Pastor Matt Mizell will offer an Easter worship and a message. Pinon Hills Kids will host an Easter egg hunt and more. For more information, visit www.pinonhillschurch.com.
The course is designed to equip today’s Christian with the essential elements of sharing their story with others. The class will be taught by Tom Cummins and will meet weekly.…
Palm Sunday: 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. Palm branches will be available in a box outside the church on the pickup shelf. Both services will be livestreamed on…
The interfaith “vaccine confidence” event targeted in particular Black, Latino and other communities of color, with the aim of overcoming reluctance among populations disproportionately hit by a pandemic that has…
Photographs of descendants of enslaved people who were sold by Georgetown University and the Maryland Jesuits to southern Louisiana in 1838. In March 2021, the U.S.-based branch of the Jesuits…