Since World War II, American mainstream churches have moved from presuming Protestant cultural dominance to a tripartite recognition of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews to a multicultural reality in which identifying mainstream churches is difficult....

A great church and little devotion. (Italian) Big churches, little saints. (German) Golden churches, wooden hearts. (Unknown) He who lives by the church shall serve the church. (German) Many bring their clothes to church rather than themselves....

A church is an association of people with a common belief system, especially one that is based on the teachings of Jesus of...

The Episcopal Church isn't the only mainline Protestant group shaken by open conflict between theological liberals and conservatives.The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is facing similar trials, with traditionalist congregations planning to bolt and a conservative denomination preparing to take them in.About 30 of the nearly 11,000...

An effort being billed as a new sanctuary movement for immigrants is loosely based on a 1980s movement in which churches harbored Central American refugees fleeing wars in their home countries.As religious leaders from different faiths across the nation announced the initiative Wednesday, the Rev....

Arsonists burst into a Jerusalem church and set the building on fire, church officials said Wednesday, raising suspicions that Jewish extremists were behind the attack.The church in west Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood was rebuilt after it was burned down 25 years ago by ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists.Members...

Tens of thousands of police deployed at churches across Indonesia Sunday amid warnings by Western nations that Islamic militants may be plotting Christmas bombings.Indonesian officials downplayed the alerts, which have become something of a tradition themselves since Christmas Eve bombings at churches across the country...