1 in 3 Americans have stopped going to church

After slipping on ice in front of his church in Minnesota, which left him partially paralyzed, 64-year-old Pastor David Kent recounted his devastating experience while showing faith in God as a healer.

A new study on how the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns impacted church attendance in the United States has found that roughly one in three Americans now say they've stopped attending religious services, yet the sense of religious identity remains mostly stable.

The head of a Greek Orthodox church in Seattle where a homeless encampment has grown outside the building says the city is ignoring the church’s complaints.

Leading Israeli archaeologists and researchers have decried what they perceive as a lack of oversight amid a series of archaeological discoveries, including recent announcements from a professor claiming to have deciphered historic Bible-era inscriptions.

Fleshly appetites are subdued when fasting. Fasting is challenging because the flesh always wants to negotiate with us. It says, "Can’t we meet in the middle? Don’t completely remove food — that’s too extreme!"

As with other Rust Belt cities, this city on Lake Ontario and near New York’s spectacular Finger Lakes region has a significant number of old churches of different denominations. The most notable hides within plain sight among the sea of buildings in downtown Rochester.

Unidentified armed men killed a 67-year-old Catholic priest in northwestern Burkina Faso, which is witnessing "one of the fastest-growing displacement and protection crises globally" due to terrorism and other challenges, according to the United Nations.