On Monday, Pastor Robert Jeffress, leader of the 16,000-member church that spans six blocks ... Jeffress anticipated he'd reopen the new sanctuary on Easter 2028 and then once again host weddings ...

Lockport’s United Church of Christ congregation has forged a long-term path forward with the sale of its building at 98 East ...

“One of my friends growing up called it “The Church” because ... And to me it was holy, a sanctuary where we felt most safe. The Christmas dinners, Easter egg hunts, trick or treating ...

Nearly 25 more attend on Christmas and Easter, she said. New pastor Hope Schwartz “is very good at coming up with new ideas,” she added. The church ... the sanctuary will become a multi ...

This means that Easter can be any time from March 22 to April 25. If you're wondering, "When are the Orthodox Easter and the Western Easter this year?" You'll find the exact date of Easter for the ...

Mayor Daniel Biss also spoke at the announcement. Woolf said the church’s decision to allow immigrants to seek sanctuary was a religious one. “What we proclaim today is that immigrants ...

For nearly three decades, Augustana Lutheran has offered sanctuary. Rev. W.J. Mark Knutson said it’s a key tenet of the church’s philosophy of social justice. “We’re not going to let ...

Local religious and political leaders declared Lake Street Church of Evanston as a public sanctuary for immigrants fearing deportation at an interfaith event Monday. Rev. Michael Woolf ...

The First Unitarian Church of Providence is willing to shelter immigrants again but it’s gauging the best course amid a new policy on ICE arrests in houses of worship PROVIDENCE — The First ...

the church often credited as the birthplace of the 1980s Sanctuary Movement. Seeing the U.S. deny asylum to nearly all Guatemalans and Salvadorans at that time, churches and volunteers at the ...

RICHMOND, Va. — In 2018, the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Richmond allowed a Honduran woman with an ICE deportation order to seek sanctuary at their church. Six years later ...

Although Olde Glory has changed forms, the sanctuary is still its original rectangular shape. At one point in its history, the Presbyterians merged with the Congregational Church to create a Feder ...