After 39 years leading Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, one of the largest megachurches in the New Orleans area, Pastor Fred Luter Jr. announced Sunday that he plans to retire next fall. In his place, ...

PEORIA – The Peoria City/County Health Department conducted more than 100 routine inspections for bars, mobile units and restaurants in September. Of these, only 11 establishments received no ...

The Mt. Zion Baptist Church in the ghost town of Rodney, Mississippi, is in a severe state of decay. The historic church was featured in the 2014 James Brown biopic, "Get On Up," directed by Tate ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Come wintertime, Lynhurst Baptist Church pastor Ben Wakefield said you can expect to see six new tiny homes on their property on the southwest side of Indianapolis. It's part of the ...

Firefighters responded to Johnson Ferry Baptist Church after a fire alarm Wednesday evening. Crews quickly contained a blaze inside the church’s older sanctuary. No injuries were reported, and the ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced the raid on Zion Church congregations across China on Friday. Chinese authorities detained nearly 30 leaders of the Christian church, with some likely ...

A pastor of a prominent underground church in China was detained, according to his daughter, a church pastor and a group that monitors religion in the East Asian country. Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri of the ...

(This story was updated to change or add a photo or video.) A Peoria pastor was arrested Wednesday in Pekin on charges of disseminating harmful material to a juvenile. Michael S. Ritchason, 47, a ...

Treasure Coast Baptist Church in Fort Pierce will unveil a Charlie Kirk memorial on Oct. 14. The statue focuses on Kirk's religious views, rather than his politics, a spokesperson said. The IRS has ...

• All the missing have been accounted for a day after a gunman rammed a truck into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan, began shooting, then set a fire that destroyed the ...

Editor’s note: Police have confirmed that a second person has died after the shooting Sunday. GRAND BLANC, MI – Multiple people were shot, including two who have died, at a church in Grand Blanc ...