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Reverend Rich O'Donnell, a Catholic priest from Burlington, Vermont, was faced with a steady decline of mass attendees over the years, and like many in the church, struggle with ideas on how to change that.

The First Baptist Church on William Street in New Bedford received a special designation this week that could save the structure for years to come. The National Trust for Historic Preservation designated the church a National Treasure, making the building more eligible for private and public donations for repairs and renovations...

The newest monument in New Bedford was dedicated Sunday, memorializing the former Sacred Heart Church. Former parishioners of the church, which was demolished in 2001, gathered at the former site of the church at Robeson and Summer Streets for a dedication ceremony...

Hundreds of Catholics gathered outside St. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River Monday night for a Columbus Day tradition.

A place of worship is a specially designed structure or consecrated space for a congregation to come together and pray. There are basilicas, cathedrals, chapels and temples, meeting houses and Kingdom Halls. Whatever one's particular faith - or lack thereof - there's no denying that organized religion has provided the inspiration and budget for some of the most interesting houses of worship. Read

Metro News - The founder of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas is dead. According to his son, Fred Phelps died overnight in Kansas at the age of 84. The Westboro Baptist Church is infamous for picketing military funerals...

The Vatican publicly unveiled a handful of bone fragments purportedly belonging to St. Peter on Sunday, reviving the scientific debate and tantalizing mystery over whether the relics found in a shoe box truly belong to the first pope. The nine pieces of bone sat nestled like rings in a jewel box inside a bronze display case on the side of the altar during a Mass commemorating the end of the Vatica

Neighbors and local organizations are pitching in after somebody stole Thanksgiving dinners from a local church. According to the Standard Times, thieves broke into a storage unit behind Saint Anthony of Padua Church on Acushnet Avenue last Saturday, making off with 20 turkeys and 150 pounds of cheese...

Holy Moly, 'new mega-churches' attracting large assemblies of atheists are popping up across the country and Australia. British duo Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans are trying to drum up donations and congregations all brought together over their belief in non-belief...

If you drove by St. Paul's Methodist Church at Rockdale Avenue and Kempton street, you may have thought you were in the middle of a pumpkin patch. The church is selling the pumpkins on consignment and has an agreement with a distributor to receive a portion of whatever they sell with proceeds going to the church's sponsorship of a 14-year-old Rwandan girl through the World Vision program... Read M