Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church with stained glass and a soaring ceiling. The Catholic parish gave Harvey and her family a sense of community as ...

The Albany Catholic Diocese is exploring realigning or closing dozens of its parish churches and other buildings, including some schools, Bishop Edward Scharfenberger said in a letter published Monday ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Fourteen more Buffalo and Western New York churches will remain open following the Vatican accepting their appeals. The announcements were made by Save Our Buffalo ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Vatican has responded with letters to 14 area churches slated to close or merge as part of the Diocese of Buffalo’s Road to Renewal. The letters call to suspend the ...

U.S. Catholic leaders are ending their church’s 50-year partnership with the federal government and seeking new ways to help refugees. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference ...

Every Sunday at St. Anne Church in Richmond Hill, Georgia, the Hilleary family — mother Michelle, father Brian and five children — receives Communion at the altar rail. “It creates a more ...

The worldwide membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grew to 17,509,781 as of Dec. 31, 2024. The net increase of 254,387 church members was revealed in the church’s annual ...

The formidable Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in downtown Santa Fe is on the front cover of David Policansky’s newly released book of photographs, “Historic Catholic Churches of ...

Ronald “Roe” Messner died on March 24. He lived in the Wichita area most of his life and build hundreds of churches around the country. Courtesy photo Messner family The first church Ronald ...

An Arizona man was found guilty by a federal jury of targeting four churches as part of a hoax bomb threat aimed at disrupting their worship services. Zimnako Salah, a 45-year-old resident of Phoenix, ...

WESTLAND, Mich. (WXYZ) — Staff, parents and students of St. Matthew Lutheran Church and School came to school Friday to see a very unpleasant surprise plastered on ...

Senate Bill 227 would open churches and charities to civil lawsuits if undocumented immigrants they help with housing then commit a crime. Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Memphis, and Rep. Rusty Grills ...