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The “arty pilgrimage” through Leicestershire has given her a chance to share and deepen her faith. As England loses a number of its churches and rethinks the role of church buildings, one artist is ...

Fellowship Church in Grapevine is attempting to set the world record for the largest chalk drawing. The church, led by Pastor Ed Young, is coloring a drawing of Jesus Christ that spans nearly 17,000 ...

When Sarah Riccardi-Swartz moved from New York City to a small Appalachian town in West Virginia in the fall of 2017, she was searching for an answer to a puzzling question. Why had a group of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Christmas liturgy at the Transfiguration Cathedral in St. Petersburg early on Jan. 7, 2020. In the U.S., Orthodox Christianity is a relatively small faith ...