"In Redding, as it is in heaven." That's how a San Francisco Chronicle columnist described a northern California city that is home to Bethel Church, a ministry that has drawn attention in Christian ...

Social media debate on intersection of disaster relief and theology echoes Osteen-Harvey episode. The main campus of Bethel Church, the nondenominational megachurch known for its charismatic practices ...

Is this heaven, or Redding? Bethel Church, with 11,000-plus members, has an almost supernatural commitment to making the North State city of 91,000 more like a heaven. It’s not there yet, but no ...

, an old hotbed of black political activism in Detroit and a symbol of the social turmoil that once gripped the city in the 1960s and '70s. In recent years, the institution has fallen on hard times.

Church’s new solar energy system “fully operational and in service,” Lead Pastor William Edward Thomas Jr. ceremonially ...

YOUNGSTOWN — New Bethel Baptist Church, 1507 Hillman St., is marking its 100th anniversary this year. The church recently hosted an Instruments of Praise Resurrection Concert “Sharing Our Story, ...