The Westminster United Presbyterian Church of Evans City kicked off its annual summer vacation bible school on Monday, June 23, and it will run through Friday, June 27.
T...
JACKSON TWP — Amid wooden pews, dulcimer music, and blistering-hot weather, a group of history buffs spent their Sunday partying like it was 1825.
A piece of Pennsylvania...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and details began to emerge of how votes...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs ...
SCHIAVON, Italy — Pope Leo XIV’s choice of name signals a commitment to social justice which is very much in line with the late Pope Francis’ global ministry.
“I think a...
VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead t...
St. Peter’s Church on Franklin Street in Butler, part of the All Saints Parish, will host a special Mass of Remembrance at 6:30 p.m. on Friday night, April 25, in honor o...
VATICAN CITY — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.”
It implies the sacred and secretive process is no p...
VATICAN CITY — He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing the feet of a Muslim prisoner...
On Wednesday and Thursday, April 9 and 10, the preschool at Dutilh Church in Cranberry Township raised funds for the Home of Hope Orphanage in Nyadire, Zimbabwe, through ...
ROME — Doctors said Monday Pope Francis is no longer in imminent danger of death as a result of pneumonia that has kept him hospitalized for nearly a month, but have deci...
ROME — A weak and breathless Pope Francis thanked people for their prayers for his recovery in a remarkable audio message broadcast Thursday, the first public sign of lif...
ROME — Pope Francis was in stable condition Tuesday and breathing with just the help of supplemental oxygen after respiratory crises a day earlier, but will resume using ...
ROME — Pope Francis suffered two new acute respiratory crises Monday and was put back on noninvasive mechanical ventilation, in another setback to his battle to fight pne...
EVANS CITY — For Russ and Phil Walker, Westminster Preschool runs through their blood. Their father, Aaron, attended the school and the accompanying United Presbyterian C...
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who identify as Christian has declined steadily for years, but that drop shows signs of slowing, according to a new survey Wednesday ...
ROME — Pope Francis suffered an isolated coughing fit on Friday that resulted in him inhaling vomit, requiring non-invasive mechanical ventilation, the Vatican said in re...
ROME — Pope Francis has shown further slight improvement as he battles double pneumonia, but doctors said Wednesday his prognosis is still guarded.
A chest CT scan taken ...
A small group of Butler County residents have spent the past year and a half trying to fulfill a 180-year-old promise.
The group is working to transform the now-closed St...
ROME — Doctors on Saturday prescribed “absolute rest” for Pope Francis and modified the treatment for his respiratory tract infection, the Vatican said, a day after the 8...
Valencia Presbyterian Church, Mars United Presbyterian Church and St. John Lutheran Church will join together Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21 and 22, to participate in the W...
BUTLER TWP — A new church officially got off the ground in Butler County on Sunday, Feb. 2.
Butler Global Church — part of the Global Methodist Church — officially welco...
Nearly a year after the United Methodist Church ended years of speculation and rewrote its policies on LGBTQ+ rights, the ripple effects are still being felt throughout B...
Grove City College has received a $5 million grant from Lilly Endowment, a private philanthropic foundation based in Indianapolis, to support the college’s Center for Rur...
The Rev. Shannon Blosser sees how his son loves church — the music, the singing, the communion. But the United Methodist pastor said his family hasn’t always felt like 11...
BETHLEHEM — On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this Pennsylvania city after the biblical birthplace of Jesus. Nearly 300 years later, Moravians continue ce...
PALMYRA, Pa. — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant.
But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents,...
ADAMS TWP — The local branch of Chinmaya Mission on Mars Valencia Road is looking to add a private pickleball court for its members.
Township supervisors tabled a motion...
EVANS CITY — Edith Loeb and Kurt Leuchter grew up seven hours apart in two different countries. Both of them experienced the horrors of Jewish persecution under the Nazi ...
