The country is home to several of the world's biggest "megachurches", with hundreds of thousands of members, while conservative evangelical church groups boast millions of followers and enormous ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV said in his first interview as history's first American pope that he has no intention of getting involved in U.S. politics but will raise his voice on issues of concern to the ...

A surge of scandals within U.S. evangelical churches, amplified by social media and independent investigators, is prompting calls for repentance and revival. Critics outside the faith highlight ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died ...

Recent events in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati have left many local Catholics disillusioned and heartbroken. Media reports describe disturbing behavior by a priest involving pornographic, violent and ...

A new study has shown that reports of child-abuse crimes perpetrated by Roman Catholic members of the clergy have not significantly affected donations to the church, reports The New York Times. The ...