church

How a Sabrina Carpenter song led to a priest's demotion for mishandling church funds

11:34am November 20, 2024

Officials say Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello was disciplined for mishandling $1.9 million in parish funds. He faced scrutiny last year for letting Carpenter film a music video at his Brooklyn church.

Rescue workers search for survivors amid debris after the roof of a church collapsed during a Sunday Mass in Ciudad Madero, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023.

World News

At least 9 dead after church roof collapses in Mexico, officials say

1:18am October 02, 2023

by The Associated Press

The Tamaulipas state police said about 100 people were in the church during a Mass at the time of the Sunday collapse.

The search for a church that isn't a church

8:59am September 11, 2023

by Rachel Martin

Plenty of Americans consider themselves to be unaffiliated from any religious institution. Yet for some, including Perry Bacon, the pull to a community like a church remains strong.

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National

A 97-year-old Los Angeles church catches on fire for the 2nd time in 2 years

6:35am June 05, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The St. John's United Methodist Church first caught fire in February 2022. It had still been holding services in the parking lot as the sanctuary was being renovated when the second fire broke out.

The Rev. Ed McKinney, pastor of Stokesdale United Methodist Church and Michael Hahn pose for a photo at the church in Stokesdale, N.C.

Religion

Some worshippers switching congregations amid United Methodist split over LGBTQ issues

4:57pm May 25, 2023

by Peter Smith and Holly Meyer, Associated Press

Thousands of United Methodist congregations have been voting on whether to stay or quit one of the nation’s largest denominations amid intractable debates over theology and the role of LGBTQ people. There are stark differences over recognizing same-sex marriage and ordaining LGBTQ clergy. More than 400 congregations have disaffiliated in North Carolina.

Southern Baptist Convention Headquarters

Religion

Southern Baptists cut ties with LGBTQ-friendly church

11:44am September 21, 2022

by Associated Press and Peter Smith

The Southern Baptist Convention's top administrative body voted to cut ties with two congregations on Tuesday — an LGBTQ-friendly church in Greensboro, North Carolina, that had itself quit the denomination decades ago and a New Jersey congregation it cited for “alleged discriminatory behavior.”

Choir members are silhouetted as they get ready for a worship service at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday, June 14, 2022.

Southern Baptists agree to keep list of accused sex abusers

12:01pm June 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

The vote on sex-abuse reforms, just weeks after the release of a report on the long-simmering scandal, fell short of what some abuse survivors in Southern Baptist churches sought.

A view of sandles outside Kings Assembly Pentecostal church, following a stampede in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Saturday, May 28, 2022.

World News

Children among 31 killed at church fair stampede in Nigeria

6:47am May 29, 2022

by The Associated Press

A stampede Saturday at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured at a program that aimed to offer hope to the needy.

Housing

$60-million development project comes to East Winston

4:36pm March 17, 2022

by David Ford

A $60-million development project is coming to East Winston, an historically underserved community in Winston-Salem.

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Huntington High School senior Max Nibert holds signs he planned to use during a walkout students were to stage at Huntington High School in Huntington, W. Va., on Wednesday. The protest followed an evangelistic Christian revival assembly last week that so

Students walk out at West Virginia school after Christian revival

9:09pm February 09, 2022

by The Associated Press

A religious service held in a public school ignites a debate about the separation of church and state.