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Recent weeks have seen an especially intense set of revelations about sexual assault and misconduct in U.S. churches.

Two people and a gunman are dead after a shooting outside an Iowa church on Thursday

Fire officials are at the scene of a collapse at an abandoned church in Bridgeport. Officials said the roof collapsed on the old True Pentecostal Church at 1267 Barnum Ave. Portions of the building collapse impacted a nearby building but no structural issues have been reported, according to firefighters. No one was inside the building at the time of the…

Firefighters put out a fire at the United Methodist Church on Main Street in East Berlin early Friday morning and investigators are working to determine what caused it.

In-person attendance at houses of worship across the U.S. has slowly risen from dramatically low levels when the pandemic surged in the spring of 2020.

When Americans are asked by pollsters about their religious identity, the fastest-growing major group consists of those who don’t affiliate with any organized religion.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday

A rally was held in support of a New Haven man facing deportation at the church where he found sanctuary.

Multiple faith leaders – including an Episcopal minister whose LGBTQ identity was central to her faith journey – say religious institutions should be more accepting of LGBTQ people.

The Higher Ground Christian Church in Bristol is helping dozens of families with food insecurity.

The Supreme Court is telling California it can’t enforce a ban on indoor church services because of the coronavirus pandemic

City officials in Murdock, Minnesota, say they did not believe they could win if challenged by the Asatru Folk Assembly, a designated hate group, in court. NBC affiliate KARE reports.

Black Lives Matter D.C. condemned vandalism to several downtown churches that took place during Saturday night’s protests, claiming D.C. police officers “physically protected white supremacists, as they threatened lives, damaged historic churches and destroyed and burned property.” Black Lives Matter organizers and one of the churches claim the damage was done by members of the Proud Boys and by...

Two people died and multiple others were “seriously wounded” in a stabbing Sunday night at a church in California, officials said.

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who stars in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” donated $100,000 to the church of a woman who believed she was taking part in a documentary but instead was being featured in the mockumentary comedy film

French anti-terrorism prosecutors are investigating a knife attack at a church in the Mediterranean city of Nice that killed three people and wounded several others at a time when French authorities are on high alert for extremist violence.

Community and state leaders are calling for the public to fill out their census, if they haven’t done so already. Faith-based groups are also working to get the word out including the Rehoboth Church of God in Bloomfield. Church leadership has partnered together with local officials from the United States Census. “We need to ensure that every family, every...

Officials say about 30-percent of households in Connecticut have still not responded to the 2020 Census.

In New Haven, New Flame Restoration Church handed out boxes of groceries to families in need.

Churches around the city coordinate a unified ringing of bells Saturday as people remember those lost to COVID-19.