#Churches

(RNS) — A new study of multi-site churches has found that such congregations have become commonplace, found in almost every state in the nation. Many of the 1,800 multisite churches have started a new location by merging with another church.

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Polis III Nona has assumed his duties as the new patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

A woman who grew up in a polygamous “cult” with 44 siblings and four mothers has said women were treated like “second-class citizens” and taught that “it was a privilege to marry a man.…

Beijing is accused of cracking down on unauthorised churches and arresting dozens of their members. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports

(RNS) — If the United Methodist Church wants to reach younger, more ethnically diverse people, it must focus on densely populated urban areas, suggests researcher Lovett Weems Jr.

St. George Orthodox Cathedral in the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah has reopened following a four-year restoration, with the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch attending the consecration ceremony

(RNS) — 'The biggest lesson I had to learn is that God's lack of an answer to my prayers to change me was an answer, because there was nothing about me that needed to change,' said Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez.

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Sarah Mullally is on a four-day pilgrimage to Rome which Lambeth Palace says is designed “to strengthen Anglican–Roman Catholic relations

"One thing that makes my heart beat is the smell of drywall," says Pastor T.L. Rogers, whose Maryland-based congregation once turned a strip mall into a church complex.…

Church pastors last year had a chance to win a free trip to London and $1,000 cash -- if they mentioned Disney's film "The Chronicles of Narnia" in their sermons.…