Watsonville Police said surveillance footage shows 23-year-old Jackeline Chavira walking into St. Patrick’s Church Wednesday, heading to the altar and pushing over the crucifix after checking to ...

The high altar, more than 100 years old, still stood, relatively unharmed from the heavy fire. The same result was visible for a large crucifix near the sanctuary and the stained glass windows ...

Burnett said the cross is about 18 inches tall and 12 inches wide and is light enough for one person to carry. It has a textured surface and the look of sun rays emanating from the center.

Under a compromise recommended by a committee of students, alumni and faculty, the 18-inch cross will be placed in a glass case in a "prominent, readily visible" location in the chapel, according ...

Parishioners of St. Philip's Episcopal Church will hold services without their altar cross for a third straight week when they gather in their modest, plantation-green Maili sanctuary on Sunday.

An important symbol of a Wichita church's faith is missing from its altar. The Church of the Blessed Sacrament reports its gold crucifix featuring a silver likeness of Jesus is missing. Besides ...

The cross has now been reinstated on the altar at All Saints’ Church. Elmore Crump, who had served at the Church for 30 years, said: “I went to put the dog out at 6am and there it was.

And the crucifix that had been on the wall behind the altar was on the floor, the plaster figure of Jesus broken into pieces. Brodeur called Jim Morse, the church’s maintenance engineer, to ...

When an aggressive Evangelical challenges me for having a crucifix in church, one of my favorite apologetic one liners is to say, “We believe the Bible. Don’t you know 1 Corinthians 1:23 ...

Smoke rises in front of the altar cross at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, after a fire engulfed the building. The image captures the cross and altar that survived the blaze.