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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Southside Bethlehem residents and representatives from nonprofit groups spoke out against the potential sale of St. John's Windish Evangelical Lutheran Church during Tuesday night's City Council ...

Four decades ago, during the heyday of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in West Oakland, hundreds would show up for worship on Sundays. The grand sanctuary of the historic Black church, with its stained ...

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 ...

Before any of the 52 people attending Bethlehem Lutheran Church on the evening of Tuesday, May 20, could begin to assemble a Solar Light and phone Charger kit for Ukrainians, they were first ...

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 ...