Category: church

Episode 10: A Courageous Church

America stands at the crossroads of human history. Once revered and respected throughout the world, the country’s influence and freedoms are in jeopardy. Join David Barton with special guests Glenn Beck, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, constitutional expert Rick Green, and law professor Dr. Carol M. Swain as they explore the America our Founding Fathers envisioned. From…


Kind Woman Offers Chair to Elderly Man Standing During Church Service

This will definitely shore up your faith in mankind.


Italian Church on Edge of LA’s Chinatown Vandalized With Anti-Colonization Graffiti

LOS ANGELES—The delicate, gold-specked mosaic that hangs above the entrance to St. Peter’s Italian Catholic Church on the edge of Chinatown was marred with bright red paint Monday morning in an apparent act of vandalism, officials said. A small crowd had gathered at the building by noon, where detectives investigating the scene said it appeared…


Italian Church Vandalized in Downtown LA

St. Peter’s Italian Catholic Church in the Chinatown neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles was vandalized Oct. 11, likely related to Indigenous People’s (Columbus) Day. The incident occurred Monday morning while priests and church staff were praying inside, according to the Los Angeles Police Dept. According to officials, the suspect threw red paint on the front…


French Report: 330,000 Children Victims of Church Sex Abuse

PARIS—Victims of abuse within France’s Catholic Church welcomed a historic turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children in France were sexually abused over the past 70 years, providing the country’s first accounting of the worldwide phenomenon. The figure includes abuses committed by some 3,000 priests and an unknown number of other…


Ancient Churches a Draw for Visitors to Rural England

The thought of exploring the ancient churches scattered across small villages and hamlets in the 100-square-mile Romney Marsh in Kent, a history-rich county in southeastern England, was alluring enough to bring me across the pond. Admittedly, church touring seems like an uncommon vacation, but it’s a relatively popular English pastime that seems to be right…


Van Nuys Church Vandalized by Masked Suspect With Baseball Bat

Eight windows of the St. Peter Armenian Apostolic Church in Van Nuys, California, were smashed by a masked suspect with a baseball bat in the early morning hours on Sept. 23. Fr. Shnork Demirjian, the church’s parish priest, said the vandalism induced fear and a sense of insecurity in people of faith and should be…


Former Cardinal McCarrick Pleads Not Guilty to Molesting Teenage Boy

DEDHAM, Mass.—Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he molested a 16-year-old boy in 1974, a case that makes him the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic official to be prosecuted for sexually abusing a minor. McCarrick, 91, a former archbishop of Washington, wore a protective mask and hunched over a walker…


Los Angeles County to Pay $400,000 Settlement to Church Who Defied Pandemic Lockdown

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a settlement to Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, who kept their doors open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic despite L.A. County’s health order.  The county settled for $400,000, which will come from the county Health Department’s budget and will go to pay the church’s legal fees. The state will reportedly pay an additional $400,000 under…


Over 2,000 Church Leaders Sign Letter to Prime Minister Against Vaccine Passports

Over 2,000 Australian church leaders have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, pushing the government not to implement or mandate vaccine passports in the country. Morrison has thrown his support behind passports but has stopped short of mandating it from a federal level. Instead, businesses and the state governments will be responsible…