It takes about 80 to 90 active members, in most church traditions, to pay a full-time pastor's salary. "This is a conversation I have almost every week," said Marr, who is based in Johnson City, Tenn.

A beloved small-town priest was gunned down at a Catholic church in Kansas Thursday afternoon by an unhinged Oklahoma gunman — just steps from where young students were playing outside the ...

The DOJ sued Troy, Idaho, for religious discrimination, alleging the city violated RLUIPA by denying Christ Church a zoning permit for worship services.

MOUNT VERNON, Ill. (RNS) — Ryan Burge, pastor and sociologist, has documented church decline for years. This Sunday, after 150 years, his own church held its final service.

Fairview’s mayor says the McKinney Texas Temple conflicts with its small-town identity. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says how it builds its temple is a religious right.

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This month, members of the small historic church have been celebrating their 140th anniversary. The milestone was marked with a series of service ministries and old-fashioned celebrations.

John Carey and Leo Sandon, religion professors at FSU, and Peter Butzin, the director of the FSU United Ministries Center, founded the church in 1975.

In his latest film, "Small Things Like These" (in theaters Friday), Murphy is at war with himself. Based on the Orwell Prize-winning novel inspired by true events, "Small Things" is set in 1980s ...

It was our first Christmas season as a family of four, and we were excited to attend our new church’s lessons-and-carols service. As my husband carried our infant daughter into the service, I ...

This Baptist church, which actually formed in 1849 on the West Side of Aurora and moved to Big Rock in 1870, according to its records, is simple, traditional, conservative and comforting.