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Listen: 'Heaven Bound' musical celebrates 90th run at Big Bethel AME Church

One of the longest-running musicals in North America is back in Atlanta after a two-year break during the pandemic.

November 10, 2022
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By:
  • Natalie Mendenhall and
  • Amanda Andrews
Choir members are silhouetted as they get ready for a worship service at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday, June 14, 2022.

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Southern Baptists agree to keep list of accused sex abusers

The vote on sex-abuse reforms, just weeks after the release of a report on the long-simmering scandal, fell short of what some abuse survivors in Southern Baptist churches sought.

June 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A view of sandles outside Kings Assembly Pentecostal church, following a stampede in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Saturday, May 28, 2022.

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Children among 31 killed at church fair stampede in Nigeria

A stampede Saturday at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured at a program that aimed to offer hope to the needy.

May 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Huntington High School senior Max Nibert holds signs he planned to use during a walkout students were to stage at Huntington High School in Huntington, W. Va., on Wednesday. The protest followed an evangelistic Christian revival assembly last week that some students at Huntington High were mandated by teachers to attend.

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Students walk out at West Virginia school after Christian revival

A religious service held in a public school ignites a debate about the separation of church and state.

February 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Angel Flores (right), founder and lead pastor of Mosaic Church, delivers the message during the Spanish worship service.

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'Manage The Best We Can': Latino Church Adapts To New COVID-19 Reality

A predominantly Latino church in Colorado has seen very high numbers of COVID-19 among congregants. They say their county has not gone far enough in implementing public health standards.

January 30, 2021
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  • Stephanie Daniel

CDC Says COVID-19 Spreads Easily Among Groups, Churches

As state health officials report the lowest number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Georgia since April 8, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease...

May 19, 2020
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  • Ellen Eldridge
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta in 2013.

Augusta Church Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Symbols

The pastor of a Unitarian Universalist church in Augusta would like to meet the vandals who graffitied the church recently in what he calls an act of...

November 19, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Barb Fischer, left, with a patron of the Sunday brekfast at Centenary United Methodist Church in Macon.

Looking For Meaning, Finding It Near The Dishwasher

Every Sunday, Centenary United Methodist Church in Macon serves a free breakfast to anyone who needs it. For years Barb Fischer has been there, too,...

February 07, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
"Saving Grace" airs on GPB Mondays at 9 p.m. and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.

'Saving Grace' Tells Stories of Georgia's Historic Rural Churches

Churches were built all over Georgia during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They were social and spiritual centers from across mountains, the...

October 23, 2018
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • La'Raven Taylor
Church leaders discuss how they engage with the younger population.

Why Are Millennials Leaving Church? Pastors Explain

Millennials aren't as religious as generations before them. That's according to a report from the Pew Research Center. The study found 35 percent of...

September 19, 2018
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • La'Raven Taylor

'Bar Church' Redefines Organized Religion On Tybee Island

Tybee Island reverend Michael Elliott’s congregation doesn’t gather in pews on Sunday mornings. Instead, they listen to his sermons from bar stools most...

September 06, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers

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