BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Walking a church isle with a canine is part of the closure for Reverend Dennis Schappell. "Is Sunday going to be a tough day for you?" I asked, while he was in midst of dog sitting.

Three Lutheran congregations in Bethlehem overwhelmingly voted to merge into Blessed Trinity Lutheran Church and accept an offer from Lehigh University to buy their properties and a parking lot for $3 ...

Christians at church services around the Lehigh Valley marked Palm Sunday, which begins Holy Week, when Christians recall the events leading up to Jesus’ death by crucifixion and the resurrection. See ...

Plenrty of churches preach about Palm Sunday, but one church in Bethlehem actually recreated it on the streets.. Spectators lined Stefko Blvd. and Broad Street -- not for a parade, but to see a savior ...

Pope Francis landed Sunday in the cradle of Christianity in a symbolic nod to Palestinian aspirations for their own state, calling the stalemate in peace talks “unacceptable” and stopping briefly to ...

A tour group from West Fargo, Fargo and surrounding areas, led by Father Phil Ackerman of Holy Cross, is safe in Bethlehem, but searching for ways to get home as the Hamas-Israel conflict continues.

A church whose congregation has roots going back to the 19th century is closing and donating hundreds of thousands of dollars from the sale of its building to charity in a Pennsylvania city named for ...

BETHLEHEM -- Larry Nipper is a regular at Bethlehem United Methodist Church's annual homecoming. He's got a stake in the Lonoke County congregation and deep roots in the countryside around it. "My ...

Bethlehem Lutheran Church of Mankato is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2017. The anniversary coincides with the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation in 1517, when Martin ...