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 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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...