This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

Thousands of churches around the country close every year. In Brooklyn, one pastor is trying to help struggling parishes keep their doors open. By Alyson Krueger Late last month, two days before ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

Simultaneous vigils of prayer for 12-year-old Birmingham schoolboy Leo Ross have taken place at two churches in the Hall Green and Yardley Wood areas of the city. The two-hour services ...

Franklin Christian Church in Franklin, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky-based Southeast Christian Church announced plans to merge. Franklin Christian and Southeast church's ties date back to ...

IMPROVEMENTS planned at a Purbeck village hall include 32 solar panels and two electric vehicle charging stations in the car park.

Seraphim Holland, a priest at the St Nicholas Orthodox Church in McKinney, Texas, has witnessed a surge of converts in recent years - James Breeden/Breeden Media LLC ...

President Donald Trump's administration has announced the rollback of a policy that kept U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from entering churches and other "sensitive locations" to ...

THE National Shrine and Parish of Mary Help of Christians in Parañaque is one of the declared Jubilee Pilgrim Churches in the Philippines. The Catholic Church has declared 2025 as a Jubilee year ...

Professional musicians and soloists join the West Dorset Singers in a concert of three choral delights in Bridport on Saturday, January 25. The musicians will perform Mendelssohn's ‘Hymn of Praise’ to ...

RELIGIOUS based hate crime has more than doubled in three years in Dorset, data shows. Reports of antisemitic hate crime offences recorded by Dorset Police has risen from 10 to 25 reports in three ...

Police said the family, from Shroton in Dorset, were left "devastated" after the five-week-old dogs were taken between 10.50pm and 11.10pm on Saturday. They were "overjoyed" after three of the ...