LOS ANGELES — Carrying a tall wooden cross on his shoulder, Pastor John Shaver walked down the street where his church had stood, just three months ago. Shaver had led the 102-year-old Community ...

A Pentecostal church in South Africa celebrated Easter Sunday with mass wedding ceremonies for around 3,000 people, with many of them entering into polygamous marriages. The International ...

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the Catholic Church around the world, has died at the age of 88. The Vatican said Pope ...

BREEZY POINT, Queens (WABC) -- Flames destroyed a Catholic church in Queens on Holy Saturday, the same church devastated by a Superstorm Sandy-fueled fire almost 13 years ago. The fire started ...

Instead he fashioned a profoundly reformist papacy, deeply divisive within the Roman Catholic Church, that sought to fundamentally reorient the institution as more liberal and less beholden to its ...

A Catholic church in Queens was engulfed in flames less than 24 hours before worshippers were set to gather for Easter Sunday mass. The fire broke out at Saint Edmund Church of the Holy Trinity ...

EAST VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A historic and beloved church in Manhattan is reopening its doors to parishioners on Sunday after a devastating fire in 2020 forced the house of worship to close.

He was seen as an advocate of a more decentralized church and very dedicated to the marginalized. My Post column when he was elected in 2013 ran under the headline, “Francis, a pope of the poor.” ...

In present-day suburban Cincinnati, Christ Church Glendale is following suit and celebrating Christ's resurrection on Easter, just like it has for the past 156 years in the small village of just ...

Hundreds of skeletons were recently uncovered by archaeologists while they were excavating a British university's property – the discovery a complete surprise. The skeletons, along with an ...

Francis' headlining changes were a softening of the Church's stance on homosexuality and contraception, an openness to women carrying out leadership positions within the church, and a rejection of ...