The National Council of Churches Releases Membership Statistics. Feb. 16, 2011— -- America is the most developed nation when it comes to religion. It has a dynamic, competitive religious ...

Survey finds nondenominational churches have the least baggage in people’s minds. Most Americans are open to a variety of denominations of Christian churches, including many people of other faiths or ...

Bishop David Epps, Sharpsburg, will represent Archbishop Charles W. Jones, the North American bishops, and The Charismatic ...

(The Conversation) — Historically, Black Pentecostal-charismatic churches have not put an emphasis on political issues. That may be changing, a scholar of Black Christianity explains. Apart from ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – With his booming voice and high-voltage charisma capable of working crowds of hundreds into a lather, Marcos Gladstone has all the trappings of a successful preacher. But ...

There's a saying in Cameroon that you can't drive for more than 100 yards without coming across a "revival church" or "new church" — terms used to refer to Pentecostal churches. And even when you ...

In 2021, six ex-members of Faith Temple Pentecostal Church accused Mary Cosby of running a religious cult, which she has denied Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Pentecostalism is spreading rapidly throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Half of the world's Pentecostalists live there, and Cameroon's government has deemed the church a national threat. Pentecostalism is ...

Worshippers listen as President Joe Biden speaks at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ on July 7, 2024, in Philadelphia. Joe Lamberti for The Washington Post via Getty Images Many Black leaders are ...