COLUMBIA, S.C. — The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners ... a post-pandemic reality common among many Black Protestant churches nationwide. At its heyday in the 1960s, more than ...

Across the country, the number of empty churches and other houses of ... said that she expected as many as 100,000 Protestant church properties to close by 2030. That figure, which may come ...

The mainline Protestant church’s struggles are hardly news ... churches and quite another to pronounce the demise of the church. One thing to mourn empty pews and shuttered Sunday school classrooms ...

Empty church buildings are becoming increasingly common nationally. An August report from The New York Times estimated some 100,000 Protestant church properties could close by 2030. And religious ...

Longin, 23, a recent convert at St Nicholas Orthodox Church who found his Protestant church started to feel ‘empty’ to him Credit: James Breeden/Breeden Media LLC “You have the worship ...

The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black Protestant ...