In nearly half of congregations — 45 percent — their leaders thought most participants didn’t share the same political views, making politics a sometimes treacherous topic. Discussing ...

Jonathan Hall has lots of strategies for his congregation in suburban Los Angeles. When he preaches what the Bible says about the mandate to care for migrants, Hall focuses on the story of Mary ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The congregation of Trinity United Church of Christ in Bethlehem, Pa., holds its last Christmas Eve service ...

"We lost about 100 parishes." Zielenieski expects he'll need to shut down another 70 churches in what the Diocese is calling its "road to renewal." It's a very biblical name for the challenge ...

The BBC’s chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, sparked an outcry after she appeared to suggest that Syrian Jews want to return to Syria's capital following the fall of the Assad ...

Jewish civilization in Azerbaijan dates back over 1,500 years. Oral tradition states that Jews first arrived in the South Caucasus country during the eighth century BCE. Since then, the Jews of ...

Settling on a swath of land that eventually became known as New Jersey, they established churches that served as the hubs of communities as well as places of worship. The colonists who arrived in ...

As the founder of Second Chances — a faith-based ministry in Oklahoma City that gets to love and serve more than 250 unhoused friends daily… ...

In place of large evangelism outreaches, churches try to be more intentional in the face of religious restrictions and theological changes. Editor’s note: All the names in the article except for ...

On Friday evening, a group of around 20 men, all of them dressed in black, unfurled a large banner proclaiming that “Jews hate freedom” on the steps of the government building. The group of ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...