In Appalachia, a church donated its building to 30 community organizations — one example of how faith-based organizations are ...

Developers have made great progress in filling a lot of downtown's empty buildings. Yet there are still some dark silhouettes in the skyline.

There's churches. Lots of them. Sometimes three or four on a single corner. Beautiful buildings, rich with history, but increasingly empty. - I remember when you just opened the doors and the ...

Built by Polish immigrants in 1882, St. Laurentius Roman Catholic Church stood tall at the corner of Berks and Memphis Streets in Philadelphia, eventually welcoming hundreds of worshipers to its ...

For Mrs. Tofano, though, “a church is more about the people than the building,” she said. Across the country, the number of empty churches and other houses of worship is sharply rising ...

The United Methodist Church has regained control of a now-empty building as a breakaway congregation in Pensacola has moved to a storefront and turned over control of the 300-seat sanctuary.

WE KNOW THAT SEVERAL CATHOLIC CHURCHES SAT EMPTY THIS EASTER SUNDAY. A CHURCH BUILDING ON EAST 22ND STREET IN NORTH BALTIMORE. WHAT MAY BE JUST A BUILDING TO OTHERS, BUT TO MARY SEWELL IT IS.

In others, one or more church buildings were closed ... likely were not surprising to those who sat in increasingly empty pews and heard dim financial updates. What is surprising is to step ...