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By Mollee Francisco  These are two birthday cakes you don’t want to stand too close to when all the candles are lit. Two of the town’s oldest organized churches celebrate 150 years in ...

When James Curenton serves Mayflower Congregational Church, he is always mindful of the Black Church tradition and ...

The Catholic Diocese of San Diego holds a procession to stand with immigrant families. "They're afraid;" Cardinal Robert McElroy said about immigrants in his congregation ...

With a combination of tenacity, creativity and vulnerability, some Catholics are finding ways to work around common obstacles ...

Bell received a vast amount of criticism for his book and even lost members of his Mars Hill Bible Church congregation. The New Yorker writes that "word went out that a prominent megachurch leader had ...