Stuffing Easter “baskets,” adding rows of extra chairs and making room to display oodles of lilies. Such is life for Napa churches and congregations in the days before Easter Sunday.

You are more likely to see jeans and T-shirts at Easter Sunday services than bonnets and three-piece suits these days. While some churchgoers reflect nostalgically on hats, ties and stockings, ...

Culture writer Taylor Crumpton says fashionable outfits and colorful hats are how to catch God's eye at Easter Sunday services. She shares with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe how Black families dress for Easter.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this Sunday will mark a special moment for Christians, as ...

The Church of the Highlands, a Birmingham-based congregation with dozens of branch locations in Alabama and Georgia, will open its new 800-seat Opelika worship center on Sunday, April 13. “The Opelika ...

Alfred Street Baptist Church has been an institution in Alexandria since it began as Colored Baptist Society at the time Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States. In the mid-1850s ...

Pope Francis gives his homily during Mass celebrating Sunday of the Word of God and the final day of the Jubilee of the World of Communicationson in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 26, 2025. ...