President of National Baptist Convention, USA, which is the nation's largest Black Protestant denomination and is headquartered in Nashville, names new trustee to denomination's publishing arm. Debbie ...

When the Episcopal Church recently announced cuts to its national staff, it was the latest in a long-running cycle among historic U.S. Protestant denominations — declines in members leading to ...

A mainline Protestant denomination recently announced that it will be adding a "nonbinary/genderqueer" category to its annual report regarding church demographics. The Office of General Assembly of ...

Leading religious trends expert Ryan Burge is the author of a new book, “The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us." Republicans and ...

The nation's largest group of Black Protestants is meeting this week for a high-stakes gathering that could thrust the denomination into an unprecedented leadership crisis − just as it faces major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Durrell Cooper, chairman of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, places a Pendleton prayer blanket around African Methodist Episcopal ...

A quarter of Methodist congregations in the U.S. are leaving the United Methodist Church as one of the country's largest Protestant denominations wrestles with issues of sexuality and gender identity.

Hindus and Jews are much more likely to have a four-year college degree than Americans in other religious groups.