More than half of Protestant churches in the U.S. are relying on armed congregants as part of their security plan, according to a recent survey of pastors. Approximately 81% of churches — or four in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.COLUMBIA, S.C. — The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among ...

Church researchers were wondering: What season of the year are church leaders thinking about finances? For most, they found, the answer seemed to be the fall. Three in 4 Protestant churches, a new ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black ...

Protestants have been donating an increasingly big share of their income to their churches in recent years, according to a new report. An analysis of 29 Protestant denominations shows that in 1999, ...

The National Council of Churches Releases Membership Statistics. Feb. 16, 2011— -- America is the most developed nation when it comes to religion. It has a dynamic, competitive religious ...

ONE of Dante’s finest passages celebrates the nuptials of St. Francis of Assisi and the Lady Poverty, ‘the widow of Christ.’ In the thought of the spiritual troubadours of the Middle Ages she had been ...