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An Indiana church took on a $7.8 million burden to eliminate the medical debt for 6,000 families in ten different communities.

A Florida church is buying a strip club and plans to transform it into their new house of worship, reports said. 

Firefighters on Tuesday are battling a major fire at a massive West Philadelphia church, local law enforcement confirmed.  

A man allegedly opened fire on kneeling worshipers at Columbia, South Carolina’s, Centro Cristiano de Columbia Church Sunday, wounding one then fleeing after the gun jammed.

Russian archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Christian church in southwest Crimea dating from the Byzantine era, a find that sheds light on notions of cities from that period.

Some much-needed help from her neighborhood mail carrier gave a surprise boost Wednesday to a woman in Kansas City, Missouri.

Five African migrants have been arrested in Rome this week after turning a local church into a headquarters for trafficking and hiding large amounts of heroin.

A young foreign man burst into a church in the Italian city of Pescara during mass, threatening the priest and parishioners while demanding money.

Three churches in east London were subjected to multiple arson attacks in the space of two days, with each door being scratched with Church of Satan pentagrams and the number 666.

The FBI announced Wednesday the arrest of a 21-year-old Syrian man on terror charges in relation to an alleged plot to bomb a church in Pittsburgh.

A group of French Republican politicians have sounded a “state of emergency” on 75 Paris Churches, each of which face a potential Notre Dame level catastrophic event if left without urgent remedial work, a statement after the world-famous Medieval cathedral suffered a catastrophic fire in April.

President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at McLean Bible Church Sunday to pray for the community of Virginia Beach, and the congregation covered him in prayer.

Law enforcement is investigating the defacement of a Roman Catholic Church in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with pro-abortion graffiti as several states move to enact laws criminalizing the killing of infants. 

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO (AFP) – Gunmen killed a priest and five church-goers during mass on Sunday in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo, northern Burkina Faso, security sources and local official said.

French police in the city of Nîmes say they have arrested a man in connection to a particularly vulgar church attack that occurred in February in which the suspect smeared faeces on the wall of the church.

A video of two intoxicated migrants near-totally destroying a church in Italy over Orthodox Easter has gone viral across social media.

The Iglesia Pentecostal Church de Bethlehem in Pennsylvania burned for the second time on Thursday — after the first was determined arson.

Actress Nicole Kidman said she is often teased by friends for her Christian faith and for going to church with her family, in a new cover story with Vanity Fair.

More than 20 people were injured at a church in Germany after mass panic ensued when a ‘mentally confused’ Somali stormed into an Easter service, shouting and throwing stones.

“I have never been happier or more content because your Country is doing so well, with an Economy that is the talk of the World and may be stronger than it has ever been before. Have a great day!” he wrote.

Unrelenting rainfall reportedly prompted a section of a South African church to collapse during an Easter season service on Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding many others.

A Greek Orthodox priest was beaten by a pair of Syrian asylum seekers in front of his own church.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek police officer and a church caretaker were injured in an explosion as they investigated a suspicious package outside a church in central Athens early Thursday.

Officials at a Greek Orthodox church in Chicago are hailing a last-minute anonymous donation as a “Christmas miracle” after the donation kept the property from going into foreclosure.

Police arrested a New York City man on Wednesday for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman outside of a New York City church on Monday evening.

A woman in Michigan allegedly shot an intruder in her home Sunday morning while she was getting ready to leave for church.

A chapel in Linz, Austria, is set to blast out the Muslim call to prayer each day throughout the Christmas period as part of an “art installation” aimed at emphasising  “that Islam is a religion of peace.”

Lombardy’s League-led local government has blocked plans to turn a chapel into a mosque after an Islamic group outbid Christians at the auction of a church in Bergamo, northern Italy.

The Venezuelan and Cuban dictators Nicolás Maduro and Miguel Díaz-Canel gave a speech at a church in Harlem, New York on Wednesday, despite both being sanctioned by the United States and engaging of decades of anti-religious practice. 

Just two percent of young British adults identify with the Church of England and seven out of 10 people under the age of 24 say they have no religion, research has revealed.