With 2,000 families and a $2.7 million budget, Fair Haven Ministries is one of the area's largest churches. That is to say, in today's economy of scale, it has farther to fall than most. Midway ...

(RNS) — COVID-19 and the rise of a cashless society may make passing the collection plate, which once was crucial to church finances, less important. (RNS) — In the 1984 film “Mass Appeal,” Father Tim ...

After a tip that a 75-year-old usher was stealing church donations, Cary police performed an undercover sting in the middle of Sunday Mass. According to investigators, James MacCaline, a lifelong ...

Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale. Already financially strapped because of shrinking membership and a struggling preschool, the congregation was dealt a ...

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross catching up with the modern age. Parishioners can now pass the plate digitally.The South End church has installed a credit card kiosk to allow parishioners make ...

Bishop Harold Edwards is the head pastor at The Church of the Living God in Oak Cliff. Black churches in the U.S. have economically empowered Black communities for generations, especially in times of ...

Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, N.C., is for sale. Already financially strapped because of shrinking membership and a struggling preschool, the congregation was dealt a crushing blow by ...

Thou shalt not steal — especially from the collection plate at church. A volunteer usher at Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in Ocala, Florida was arrested Sunday after police said he took cash from ...

I belong to the Church of I Think For Myself. It has a congregation of one. My journey to this church was long and arduous. Like many Americans of my generation who are descended from Irish immigrants ...

Bethany United Methodist Church, 3511 Linkwood. 12:30 and 7 p.m. Cenacle Retreat House, 420 N. Kirkwood. Day of Prayer: Three Pillars of Lent, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $25-$65. Register at 281-497-3131.

Police say an Alabama man took money from a church's collection plate and deposited the funds into an account he controlled. WAFF-TV reported Tuesday that witnesses told police Gary Bradley III, who ...