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A statue depicting Jesus Christ has been found decapitated inside a South Florida church, leaving congregants of the house of worship shaken.

St. John’s Episcopal Church, a historic church near the White House is on fire, according to a Fox News report on Sunday.

“Today I am identifying houses of worship, churches, synagogues, and mosques as essential places that provide essential services,” Trump said.

“I want to get our churches open, and we’re going to take a very strong position on that very soon.”

As many as 100 Chicago area churches plan to hold in-person Sunday services in defiance of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s (D) stay-at-home orders.

Lauren Witzke, a Republican candidate for Senate in the Delaware, is hosting a church service on Sunday in defiance of the state’s lockdown.

Mega church Pastor Brian Gibson of HIS Church announced that his churches in Texas and Kentucky will hold in-person services on May 17.

Officials in Kentucky will document the license plate numbers of individuals attending mass gatherings over Easter weekend and turn the information over to health officials, who will require the individuals to self-quarantine for 14 days, Gov. Andy Beshear (D) announced Friday.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed an executive order that makes churches an “essential service” in the state as legal battle continues.

Tampa Bay-area pastor Rodney Howard-Browne was arrested Monday for allegedly violating social distancing guidelines after he held two services at his mega-church over the weekend.

Dec. 29 (UPI) — Two people were slain and another is in critical condition after a shooting during a service at a Christian church in a suburb in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday morning.

A Missouri church did its best to honor the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris by creating a 7-foot tall gingerbread replica of the church.

A Dedham, Massachusetts, church is using its nativity scene to make a political statement, and this year church officials chose the theme to be climate change.

An unidentified man was arrested Tuesday after attacking two security guards at the largest U.S. Catholic church, according to WTOP.

A Maine man has been accused of turning a child’s playroom at a Methodist church into a lab that produces methamphetamine.

A recent guest speaker at Andrews University, a Christian institution in Berrien Springs, Michigan, told students that their churches should hide illegal immigrants to protect them from deportation. 

A church and a non-profit group have teamed up to pay off a large amount of their community’s medical debts. 

A cross remained standing inside a church in Dallas, Texas, after an F-3 tornado tore the building apart on Sunday. 

An Indiana church took on a $7.8 million burden to eliminate the medical debt for 6,000 families in ten different communities.

A Florida church is buying a strip club and plans to transform it into their new house of worship, reports said. 

Firefighters on Tuesday are battling a major fire at a massive West Philadelphia church, local law enforcement confirmed.  

A man allegedly opened fire on kneeling worshipers at Columbia, South Carolina’s, Centro Cristiano de Columbia Church Sunday, wounding one then fleeing after the gun jammed.

Russian archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Christian church in southwest Crimea dating from the Byzantine era, a find that sheds light on notions of cities from that period.

Some much-needed help from her neighborhood mail carrier gave a surprise boost Wednesday to a woman in Kansas City, Missouri.

Five African migrants have been arrested in Rome this week after turning a local church into a headquarters for trafficking and hiding large amounts of heroin.

A young foreign man burst into a church in the Italian city of Pescara during mass, threatening the priest and parishioners while demanding money.

Three churches in east London were subjected to multiple arson attacks in the space of two days, with each door being scratched with Church of Satan pentagrams and the number 666.

The FBI announced Wednesday the arrest of a 21-year-old Syrian man on terror charges in relation to an alleged plot to bomb a church in Pittsburgh.

A group of French Republican politicians have sounded a “state of emergency” on 75 Paris Churches, each of which face a potential Notre Dame level catastrophic event if left without urgent remedial work, a statement after the world-famous Medieval cathedral suffered a catastrophic fire in April.

President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at McLean Bible Church Sunday to pray for the community of Virginia Beach, and the congregation covered him in prayer.

Law enforcement is investigating the defacement of a Roman Catholic Church in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with pro-abortion graffiti as several states move to enact laws criminalizing the killing of infants. 

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO (AFP) – Gunmen killed a priest and five church-goers during mass on Sunday in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo, northern Burkina Faso, security sources and local official said.

French police in the city of Nîmes say they have arrested a man in connection to a particularly vulgar church attack that occurred in February in which the suspect smeared faeces on the wall of the church.

A video of two intoxicated migrants near-totally destroying a church in Italy over Orthodox Easter has gone viral across social media.

The Iglesia Pentecostal Church de Bethlehem in Pennsylvania burned for the second time on Thursday — after the first was determined arson.

Actress Nicole Kidman said she is often teased by friends for her Christian faith and for going to church with her family, in a new cover story with Vanity Fair.