Three Lutheran congregations in Bethlehem overwhelmingly voted to merge into Blessed Trinity Lutheran Church and accept an offer from Lehigh University to buy their properties and a parking lot ...

Before any of the 52 people attending Bethlehem Lutheran Church on the evening of Tuesday, May 20, could begin to assemble a ...

‘Windish’ immigrants found their way from Slovenia to Bethlehem more than a century ago in search of new jobs and a better life. The Lutheran church they dedicated in 1916 has weathered a ...

To the congregations of three Lutheran churches in Bethlehem, a merger seemed like a natural choice. As is the case with churches across the country — less than half of U.S. adults are ...

Five area Lutheran congregations — Zion United Church of Christ, Pleasant View Lutheran, Gethsemane Lutheran, Bethlehem Lutheran, and First Latvian Lutheran — trace their origins to Mount ...

Munther Isaac, a pastor at Bethlehem's Lutheran Church, says local Muslim families have also been emigrating, squeezed by both financial problems and broader worries about the future.

Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Durham, Wis., was on trial for heresy. The seven men at the table were Lutheran ministers chosen to carry out the first formal trial for heresy ever held in the 60 ...

After the discovery, the remains of all those buried were carefully removed, relocated and reinterred at the Bookman Cemetery, which belongs to Bethlehem Lutheran Church. The cemetery sits ...

Breiel Blvd., and Bethlehem Lutheran, 212 S. Broad St., will be decommissioned on Aug. 25, then reopen as New Hope United Lutheran Church of Middletown in the Zion building. Zion members will ...