Hillside Bethel Ministries will hold a clothing giveaway from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 18.
Four Decatur churches are sponsoring a showing of the Rich Christiano film "Mind Reader" on Jan. 30.
Wait staff at Sky City Grill received a Christmas surprise on Sunday when a group of pastors gave them cash to make their holiday a little easier.
Child Evangelism Fellowship holds Five Day Club events in communities, a vacation Bible school held in a host's backyard to bring the Gospel to kids in their own neighborhoods.
Decatur House of Prayer will hold a trivia night fundraiser on June 24.
DECATUR – Tucked away in a residential neighborhood in the near west side of Decatur, Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church's members enjoy a quiet campus surrounded by homes and trees full of singing birds.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A lawyer for congregants at the oldest synagogue in the United States said they want to take their fight for ownership of the Rhode Island synagogue to the U.S. Supreme Court, after an appeals court let stand a decision giving control of it to a New York congregation.
MOUNT AUBURN -- Summer camps for children at Camp One Way, 1645 E. 2945 N. Road, include:
DECATUR — Business Power Lunch with featured speaker Kyle Karsten, Salvation Army director of development and community relations, will be noon, Tuesday, June 5, in the Beach House, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive.
DECATUR -- First Saturday Mass will begin 10 a.m. Saturday, June 2, in the chapel at HSHS St. Mary's Hospital.
EFFINGHAM -- Enduring Freedom Ministries Food and clothing distribution days include:
Harristown Foursquare Church
LEXINGTON, S.C. — A Baptist church in South Carolina plans to remove a hand-carved statue of Jesus Christ because some congregants believe it's too "Catholic" for their place of worship.
FORT WORTH, Texas — A former head of the Southern Baptist Convention has been terminated from a Texas seminary over his handling of a sexual abuse case at another institution.
FORSYTH — Summer Hop program will be 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, June 4-29, in Decatur Christian School, 137 S. Grant St., Forsyth.
STEWARDSON — Trinity Lutheran Church will celebrate their 150th anniversary on Sunday, June 3, at 113 S. Walnut St., Stewardson
DECATUR — Understanding Ramadan is the theme for the Decatur Islamic Center's interfaith dinner that will be served at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 31, in Richland Community College Schilling Center.
SALT LAKE CITY — Outside little Ruthie Yanez's Primary Children's Hospital room window, the sun breaks through leaden skies as a cold, light rain blows through the Salt Lake Valley below.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson offered an apology for his “failure to be as thoughtful and careful as I should have been” amid growing backlash over his comments urging women in abusive marriages to submit to their husbands rather than seek divorce and to keep ma…
DECATUR — An overcast sky and windy conditions could not keep over 50 people away from Decatur's Central Park Thursday afternoon to ask God to look after the United States.
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SALT LAKE CITY — A Mormon church member supervising young missionaries in Puerto Rico was removed from the post and kicked out of the religion after female missionaries reported behavior that was "immoral and sinful," the church announced Thursday.
The recent dispute over whether Pope Francis denied the existence of hell in an interview attracted wide attention. This isn’t surprising, since the belief in an afterlife, where the virtuous are rewarded with a place in heaven and the wicked are punished in hell, is a core teaching of Chris…
DECATUR — Decatur Christian School spring play "Much Ado About Nothing," a play by William Shakespeare, will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 27-28, in Faith Baptist Church, 875 W. Grove Road.
DECATUR — "The Give Back" free event will be 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in Life Builder's Church of God, 833 W. Pershing Road.
DECATUR — That there are fewer in the pews this Easter Sunday compared to years past isn’t discouraging to the Rev. Adam Ray, of St. John's Lutheran Church in Decatur. On days like this, those leading the faithful know their places of worship attract the so-called "Chreasters,” or those who …
ROME — Pope Francis urged inmates at a Rome prison on Thursday to never let their hopes be clouded like cataracts cloud the eyes — and revealed that he suffers from the condition and has to have surgery for it next year.
VATICAN CITY — The author of a highly critical book about Pope Francis, entitled "The Dictator Pope," has been suspended by the Knights of Malta lay religious order.