BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese province where authorities have forcibly removed hundreds of rooftop crosses from skylines of cities and towns has proposed a ban on any further placement of the religious ...

A controversial 28-foot Christian cross perched atop Albany Hill Park for more than five decades is officially gone. Well, at least for now. Early on June 8, the city quietly removed the electrically ...

When Arianna Salerno first moved to Washington, D.C., in 2022 to attend Catholic University, she didn’t see many people wearing cross necklaces. But in the past year, she says she has noticed an ...

The governor of Bavaria, in southern Germany, has ordered that crosses be displayed at the entrances to government buildings across his state. Markus Söder has presented the move not as merely a ...

A collection of crosses from around the world are on permanent display at the church I attend, Messiah Lutheran Church in Fairview Park. Some years ago, a pastor encouraged parishioners who traveled ...

Authorities are investigating a possible hate crime at a Sylmar Christian church where outdoor wooden crosses were burned. Three crosses were burned Thursday around 5 a.m. and one cross was knocked ...

Christians worldwide commemorated the crucifixion of Jesus in Good Friday worship services, followed by celebration of his resurrection on Easter Sunday. But as often as the cross appears in Christian ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a 40-foot World War I memorial cross can stay on public land at a Maryland intersection. The cross "has become a prominent community landmark, and its ...

Ceramic vessels originating in the Islamic world once adorned the facades of churches and other Christian monuments, while Christian symbols such as the cross embellished columns, slabs, and other ...