As you approach Aldie on Route 50, a church spire gradually rises above the newly built housing complexes and data centers.

The Orthodox Christian tradition is strong in the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska. It recently welcomed clergy and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint.

Every Sunday morning, Pastor Pascal Ogutu walks barefoot across the cracked mud of what was once the foundation of his church. He passes submerged gravestones and the sagging roof of the altar, now ...

At least two former altar boys have reached out to the Catholic Church to say priests abused them, the church’s new sexual abuse response coordinator said.

The head of the larger of India´s two Oriental Catholic Churches has allowed girls to serve at the altar, a move an official says will help promote gender equality in the Church. Cardinal Varkey ...

Catholic nuns in Sri Lanka are upset over a recent order from Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith banning girls from being altar servers, but have not protested as they did during a public stir against their ...

Workers from Rich Murray Granite and Marble Works lift the top piece of the altar Tuesday while moving it to the center of the sanctuary at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Champaign.

A St. Joseph altar, decorated with symbolic foods, will be installed at the Israelite Divine Spiritual Church on Frenchmen Street ...

KOCHI: It is the smell of burning candles and incense floating with the gentle breeze that greets you as you slowly climb the ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, recently came to the basilica to dedicate its new altar on the occasion of the church’s reopening.

Bishop Donald Hying, left, and others pray during a dedication for the renovated church and altar Thursday at the Discalced Carmelite Fathers in Munster.

South Western Railway to run 13 special services between Bengaluru and Kochuveli to clear festival season rush.