More than half of Protestant churches in the U.S. are relying on armed congregants as part of their security plan, according to a recent survey of pastors. Approximately 81% of churches — or four in ...

Church researchers were wondering: What season of the year are church leaders thinking about finances? For most, they found, the answer seemed to be the fall. Three in 4 Protestant churches, a new ...

Protestants have been donating an increasingly big share of their income to their churches in recent years, according to a new report. An analysis of 29 Protestant denominations shows that in 1999, ...

The number of Hispanic Protestant churches in the United States is up sharply over the past 23 years thanks to both immigration and evangelization, according to a survey released Tuesday. About 4 out ...

For years, America's mainline Protestant churches were in serious decline, with plummeting membership and a voice that seemed irrelevant in national politics. All the energy seemed to have drained out ...

Survey finds nondenominational ones are most active. But half of churchgoers say their church doesn’t mention either issue. The Bible has a lot to say about caring for orphans. Protestant churches in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay ...

The National Council of Churches Releases Membership Statistics. Feb. 16, 2011— -- America is the most developed nation when it comes to religion. It has a dynamic, competitive religious ...