DEERFIELD, Ill. (RNS) American cities, counties and universities that offer sanctuary for undocumented foreigners cannot claim to be following the practice described in the Bible.

Both the sanctuary movement of the 1980s and the new sanctuary movement of the 2010s housed people in houses of worship and gave them a platform to speak about their situation—a strategy they derived ...

But he feels that the New Sanctuary Movement goes further than the Bible mandates. “I think that’s an awfully drastic step, to say that we are going to disobey the law,” he says.

Aguirre and church sanctuary: I find the story of Salvadoran national Francisco Aguirre most insulting as a Christian. This illegal immigrant is just using the church as a way to escape the ...

Worshippers at Voyagers Bible Church have a sprawling new sanctuary to call home.On Sunday, the nondenominational Christian church in Irvine unveiled an 18,000-square-foot building. A full house of… ...

After peaceful protesters were dispersed with tear gas, the President stood before St. John’s Episcopal Church and held a Bible aloft like a product on a home-shopping network.

In offering to open church buildings across Australia as places of sanctuary for asylum seekers, church leaders are appealing to an ancient notion of how we should treat people in need of protection.

The image of the Bible and anchor was part of the sanctuary built in 1908, according to Lovvorn. The image reminds “our church that Scripture and God’s word is our anchor and foundation,” he ...

CHATHAM, Va. (WSET) — Four years after a tractor-trailer crashed through the Open Bible Baptist Church in Chatham, folks gathered for service for the first time in their new sanctuary. Pastor ...

The Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. As members of the neighborhood slowly return, Rev. Charles Duplessis leads church ...