Former D.C. Church Official Sentenced For Embezzling Nearly $1 Million
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBS Washington/AP) — The former chief financial officer of a historic church in Washington has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for embezzling $850,000 from the...
View ArticleReligious Groups Outraged Over White House Birth Control Mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s decision requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control was bound to cause an uproar among Roman Catholics and members of other faiths, no...
View ArticleArchdiocese Apologizes To Lesbian Denied Communion At Mother’s Funeral
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has apologized to a woman who was denied Holy Communion at her mother’s funeral Mass because she is a lesbian. Barbara Johnson and...
View ArticleGotta Have Faith: Poll Finds Nearly 70 Percent Of Americans Are Religious
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — A new Gallup poll shows that nearly 70 percent of Americans find religion plays an important role in their lives. The poll finds that 40 percent classify themselves as very...
View ArticleNew Zealand Priest Claims That Jesus Was ‘Probably’ Gay
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — A New Zealand Anglican priest claims that Jesus was “probably” gay. Paul Oestreicher, a chaplain at the University of Sussex, wrote in an op-ed piece for The Guardian about the...
View ArticleStudy: Church-Friendly Teens Fare Better In Education
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Church-friendly American teens are far more likely to graduate high school and succeed in education than their religiously unaffiliated peers. Religiously-affiliated youth are 40...
View ArticleNational Cathedral Rings Bells to Cheer Gay Marriage
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The National Cathedral is pealing its church bells, along with some other Washington churches, to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decisions on gay marriage. Cathedral spokesman...
View ArticleVandalized Churches in D.C. Hold Sunday Services
WASHINGTON — The Washington National Cathedral and another church have opened their doors to parishioners after being vandalized with green paint. The cathedral and the Luther Place Memorial Church...
View ArticleFuneral Set for Ocean City Pastor Killed in Fire
OCEAN CITY, Md. — A funeral service has been scheduled for an Ocean City pastor who died in a fire at his church. The Rev. David Dingwall died Tuesday after a fire broke out at Saint-Paul’s-By-Sea...
View ArticlePoll: American Trust In Clergy Members Hits New Low
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) – A record number of people throughout the United States have expressed a lack of trust in clergy members, according to a new poll. When asked by researchers at Gallup to rate the...
View ArticleChurch Signs Roll the Dice Getting Hip with Quips
ST. LOUIS — Pastor Mike Butzberger insists he only had holiday spirit in mind when his Florida church’s marquee read: “Christmas — Easier to spell than Hanukkah.” But after a passer-by told him she...
View Article‘God Keeps Me High': Easter on 4/20, Pot Holy Day
LOS ANGELES — Social media has been buzzing for weeks with jokes about how, this year, Easter Sunday shares the calendar with the pot-lover’s highest holiday: April 20, or 420 in stoner lingo....
View ArticleFirst Lady: We Use Sundays For Naps If We’re Not Going To Church
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — First Lady Michelle Obama says the family tries to use Sundays for downtime if they aren’t going to church. Speaking to “Live with Kelly & Michael” Monday during the White...
View ArticleChurch Youth Leader Convicted of Sex Abuse
ROCKVILLE, Md. — A Las Vegas man has been convicted of sexually abusing boys while he was a youth leader at a church in Maryland in the 1980s. Fifty-six-year-old Nathaniel Morales was convicted...
View ArticlePoll: Americans Very Likely To Inflate Their Amount Of Religious Participation
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Americans from all subgroups are highly likely to significantly inflate their amount of religious participation – if they attend religious services at all. The “I Know What You...
View Article5 Tips For Budget Travel To Italy
Photo Courtesy of Simon & Schuster Dianne Hales is the author of MONA LISA: A Life Discovered, which will be published by Simon & Schuster on August 5. She is a prize-winning, widely published...
View ArticleBaltimore Church Damaged in 3-Alarm Fire
BALTIMORE — Firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze at a northeast Baltimore church. The fire at the All Saints Evangelical Lutheran Church was reported about 3 p.m. Thursday. Firefighters say the...
View ArticleChurch Fires Pregnant, Unwed Mother
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (CBSDC) – Apryl Kellam said she was fired from the church daycare because she was in violation of church policy. “It hurts because I’ve grown up in a Christian home and Christian...
View ArticleObama Family Worships At Historic Baptist Church In Virginia
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama and his family attended Easter service at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, whose history dates back almost 200 years to when...
View ArticleKorean-American Church Wins Appeal in Construction Dispute
BALTIMORE — A Korean-American church based in Silver Spring has won an appeal in its disputed plan for an 800-seat worship center in rural Frederick County. The Court of Special Appeals, Maryland’s...
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