There’s something haunting about an empty church. These structures were built to last centuries, designed to inspire awe and house communities in worship. But time, war, natural disasters, and ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank, May 10 -- The Church of the Nativity is filled with trash. Black soot covers the walls of rooms in two adjacent monasteries. On the roof of an adjoining Catholic church, a ...

The abandoned church on Dubois just off Interstate 94 closed as a Catholic church in 1989. The building, which opened in 1913, appears weathered from the outside yet is still well intact. An abandoned ...

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition. Today, Pope Francis ...