$2 million relic stolen and angel statue beheaded at NYC church

The tabernacle, a box containing Holy Communion items, was made of 18-carat gold and decorated with jewels, police said.

• May 31, 2022

Southern Baptist leaders release secret accused abuser list

The list includes more than 700 entries from cases that largely span from 2000 to 2019.

• May 26, 2022

Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims, report finds

SBC President Ed Litton, in a statement Sunday, said he is "grieved to my core" for the victims and thanked God for their work propelling the SBC to this moment.

• May 24, 2022

Report: Top Southern Baptists covered up abuse

A scathing new report describes allegations of extensive coverups of sexual abuse for decades by senior Southern Baptist leaders. Nikki Battiste reports.

• May 23, 2022

California church shooting suspect appears in court

The suspect in a California church shooting made his first court appearance. Prosecutors say the suspect was motivated by his hatred against Taiwan and he chained the church's doors shut and used super glue to disable the locks before he opened fire.

• May 17, 2022

1 killed, 5 injured in church shooting

Authorities are investigating a shooting at a Southern California church that left one person dead and five others injured. Carter Evans reports from the church in Laguna Woods.

• May 16, 2022

Churchgoers hogtie alleged shooter

A group of churchgoers displayed "exceptional heroism" after they hogtied the alleged gunman in the deadly Laguna Woods church shooting in Southern California, authorities said.

• May 16, 2022

Russian Orthodox leader's support of war divides church

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has framed President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in holy terms – as a defense of conservative values against a morally corrupt West. Now, the war has prompted dissent within the Orthodox Christian faith. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with Orthodox adherents who say the message from their church's Moscow leadership and the Kremlin's war propaganda are one and the same.

• May 1, 2022

Ukrainians pray and hope through Easter

As Russian forces continue their unrelenting onslaught on Ukrainian city Mariupol, CBS News foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata visits a Ukrainian Orthodox church where worshippers gathered for the start of Holy Week.

• Apr 18, 2022

Easter egg event raises money for Ukraine

A Minneapolis church held a special event featuring Ukrainian Easter eggs to help support the war-torn country. CBS Minneapolis’ Adam Duxter has the story.

• Apr 17, 2022

Many return to in-person worship for Easter

Across the U.S., many are attending in-person Easter services for the first time in years. Lilia Luciano reports.

• Apr 17, 2022

Hillsong Church co-founder resigns after probe into inappropriate behavior

The megachurch said an internal probe into allegations of inappropriate behavior revealed that Houston "breached the Hillsong Pastor's Code of Conduct."

• Mar 23, 2022

Historic sex abuse in French Catholic Church

An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes 3,000 child abusers, two-thirds of them priests, have worked in the church over the past 70 years. Chris Livesay reports.

• Oct 5, 2021

Kentucky minister on how he survived tornado

Reverend Joey Reed of the Mayfield First United Methodist Church joined "CBS Mornings" to share his story of survival during the tornado that ripped through Mayfield, Kentucky. He said he emerged from the basement closet where he took shelter with his wife to see much of the church had crumpled around him.

• Dec 13, 2021

Gunman in Sacramento church shooting lived in the church, police say

Authorities identified David Mora as the man who killed his three daughters and their chaperone. Their mother had feared for the girls' safety, court documents show.

• Mar 2, 2022