This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

I enjoy occasionally taking my children to various churches to expose them to diverse religious experiences. Recently, our ...

The choir for girls aged 11-17 sing at the weekly 6pm Sunday service in the church. Find out more about the choristers and how your child can get involved. Find out more about the current status of ...

A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...

(RNS) — Most American churches navigated the patchwork of COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings by periodically closing their doors and broadcasting services online instead. But for almost ...

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power and Justice in an American Church. By Eliza Griswold. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 352 pages; $30. Headline; £25 THEY CONGREGATED in an opioid-plagued ...

Monumental and full of charm, beautifully preserved and withered by time, full of history and legend. Here are 15 exceptional churches of Poland, dating from the Middle Ages through to contemporary ...

A mosaic by ex-Jesuit artist Father Marko Rupnik is seen on the main facade of the Church of Our Lady of the Canadian Martyrs, in Rome Friday, June 28, 2024. Several women have accused him of ...

The Church of England is increasingly dropping the word “church” in favour of “relevant and modern-sounding” descriptions ...

By Andrew E. Kramer Ukraine’s Parliament passed a bill on Tuesday creating a legal path to ban a Russian-aligned branch of the Orthodox church, furthering a long, post-Soviet split between two ...

Two churches in Somerset have been vandalised over the past week. Wincanton Parish Church had its lead roof vandalised during an attempted theft, and St Peter's Church, in Priorswood, Taunton ...

The Rev Giles Goddard, who is leading the Church of England's net zero campaign Credit: Michael Melia/Alamy Stock Photo Vicars have been told to give parishioners blankets to keep them warm ...