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• Church building in Colorado Springs celebrates 120 years

  January 13, 2013 7:12 PM

  A congregation celebrates a building with an interesting history. It's stood on Tejon in Colorado Springs for 120 years. We found out the story behind the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church from its unique minister. "All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church has always stood for being the voice of liberal religion,"... more »

• Looking back 5 years: Deadly New Life Church shooting

  December 9, 2012 7:41 PM

  COLORADO SPRINGS- It's been five years since the deadly shooting at New Life Church off Voyager and Interquest Parkway on the northeast side of town. For the first time since the shooting, the anniversary falls during Sunday worship. Sunday morning, a special ceremony was held in honor of... more »

• Colorado Springs pastor talks campaign issues as his church participates in Pulpit Freedom Sunday Play Video

  October 7, 2012 6:17 PM

  Campaign issues preached biblically from the pulpit. You probably haven't heard that in church, but for the past several years some pastors have decided to participate in Pulpit Freedom Sunday. This year more churches than ever took part. We sat in on one of these sermons. Since 1954... more »

• Police: 2 dead, 1 wounded in Md. church shooting

  May 3, 2012 9:22 PM

  ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) - Police in Maryland are investigating a shooting inside a church office that left one woman dead and another seriously wounded. Later, a man was been found dead in nearby woods. Thursday afternoon's shooting occurred at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City. Howard County Police... more »

• Operation Christmas Child

  November 18, 2011 11:38 PM

  Operation Christmas Child has help millions of kids worldwide feel a little bit of Christmas joy over the holidays. Last year alone, over 8 million children received boxes. Since 1993, 77 million lives worldwide have been touched by a shoe box. Inside this simple little gift kids will find... more »

• Government involvement in church disputes

  October 5, 2011 6:47 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will decide whether the government can get involved in a workplace dispute between a church and one of its employees. The court will hear arguments Wednesday from the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School of Redford, Mich. Cheryl Perich got sick, then... more »

• Church yard sale aims to feed a community

  July 16, 2011 4:13 PM

  Members of a Colorado Springs church are doing some late spring cleaning to help feed families in our community. The congregation at Church For All Nations on the northeast side is hosting a large scale community yard sale with proceeds benefiting the Angel Food organization. Pastor Mark Cowart... more »

• Loveland church cheers artist's new piece on Jesus

  June 19, 2011 5:15 PM

  LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - An artist whose museum piece with religious tones was destroyed by a woman wielding a crowbar has created a new portrait of Jesus for a Loveland church. Enrique Chagoya's painting was revealed to a cheering congregation Saturday at Resurrection Fellowship Church. The Reporter-Herald reports it... more »

• Church revokes speaking invite for Churchill

  May 22, 2011 6:17 PM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - A Grand Junction church that invited fired University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill to speak on Memorial Day has withdrawn its invitation. The (Grand Junction) Sentinel reports that the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Grand Valley did not want to offend military families by having... more »

• Tornado victims seek comfort in Sunday services

  May 1, 2011 6:57 PM

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The deadly storms that roared across the South last week flattened churches and crushed the homes of pastors and parishioners from Mississippi to Virginia. So on the first Sunday after the disaster, believers streamed into houses of worship to give thanks for being spared, to... more »

• Police: Abuse started when victim was 16

  April 13, 2011 3:27 PM

  Colorado Springs Police now believe an ongoing sexual relationship between a teenage girl and an adult working with a local church youth group started when the girl was 16. Eric Caverly has been arrested on a charge of Sexual Assault on a Child by one in a Position of... more »

• Control of trust handed back to church

  April 8, 2011 1:08 PM

  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal judge in Utah has handed control of a communal land trust back to the leaders of Warren Jeffs' polygamous church. In a temporary order signed Thursday, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said church leaders, not the state of Utah, should manage the... more »

• Mormons church announces 3 new temples

  April 2, 2011 2:23 PM

  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mormon church President Thomas S. Monson says the faith has plans for three new temples in North America. Monson says the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will build temples in Meridian, Idaho, Fort Collins, Colo., and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The announcement... more »

• Baby left in bathroom sink at Denver church

  March 20, 2011 1:17 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Denver police are trying to determine who left a newborn boy in a bathroom sink at a church in northwest Denver. Children attending a Friday night service at St. Dominic church found the baby wrapped in a T-shirt. The Rev. Clint Honokomp says no one knows... more »

• Group sues to block prayer speaker at AFA

  January 31, 2011 5:12 PM

  DENVER (AP)-Five faculty members at the Air Force Academy and a religious watchdog group filed a civil rights suit against the Academy, saying it is violating the separation of church and state by sponsoring a National Day of Prayer event and inviting a fundamentalist Christian to speak. The Military... more »

• Restitution sought from former pastor

  December 16, 2010 1:56 PM

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Prosecutors say they are seeking about $291,000 in restitution from the pastor of a dissident Anglican church. Don Armstrong of St. George's Anglican Church in Colorado Springs previously led Grace Episcopal Church and St. Stephen's Parish but left the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado in... more »

• Church helps families affected by fire

  December 10, 2010 2:18 PM

  A church in Pueblo West is reaching out to help dozens of families--who were affected by a daycare fire. The Ecumenical Church of Pueblo West took in 40 children for daycare services. The children had been going to Children's Palace in Pueblo West--but the daycare was damaged by a fire... more »

• Crystal Cathedral files for bankruptcy

  October 18, 2010 6:57 PM

  GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) - Crystal Cathedral has filed for bankruptcy in Southern California after months of trying to overcome mounting debt. The megachurch, birthplace of the "Hour of Power" televangelist broadcast, announced its filing Monday as it deals with a $55 million debt. The Orange County-based church, founded... more »

• Boulder wants Supreme Court to stop church growth

  October 1, 2010 8:32 AM

  Boulder County wants the U.S. Supreme Court consider its dispute with a church that wants to nearly double the size of its 128,000-square-foot campus. The Daily Camera reports that the county commissioners voted Thursday to press their legal battle with the Rocky Mountain Christian Church near Niwot. The... more »

• Colorado watchdog group to donate Qurans

  September 8, 2010 3:36 PM

  A religious watchdog group in Colorado says it will send a copy of the Quran to the Afghan National Army for every one that may be destroyed by the pastor of a small Florida church. Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said Wednesday his group would... more »

• Update: "Law enforcement legend" was God's servant

  August 20, 2010 1:19 PM

  At today's memorial service John Ramsey talked about Lou Smit's integrity and faith in God and said Smit never stopped working on JonBenet's murder case. "I had the opportunity to visit Lou a few hours, shortly after he went into hospice and a week before he died," Ramsey told the... more »

• Presbyterians divided over gays

  July 9, 2010 8:32 AM

  U.S. Presbyterians continue to be divided over how to treat gay and lesbian Christians. The church's leaders have approved a more liberal policy on gay clergy but decided not to redefine marriage in their church constitution to include same-sex couples. Approval of both measures could have made the... more »

• Westboro Baptist submits brief to Supreme Court

  July 7, 2010 7:40 PM

  BALTIMORE (AP) - The fundamentalist church that picketed the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq says its actions are constitutionally protected. An attorney for the Westboro Baptist Church submitted a 75-page brief to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. Albert Snyder is suing the church, claiming that the First... more »

• Church claims marijuana as part of religion

  June 28, 2010 3:13 PM

  Charged with marijuana possession, Jason Wimler says it's part of his religion. Wimler was driving on I-25 last December when a windshield wiper broke. A State Trooper stopped to give aid and noticed the smell of marijuana. A search of the car came up with less than an ounce... more »

• Single moms get free oil change

  June 4, 2010 1:15 PM

  A Pueblo church in conjunction with an auto repair shop will sponsor a free oil change for single moms on June 19 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Impact Ministry from Fellowship of the Rockies has agreed to handle logistics for the event, as Mueller Auto donates their time... more »

• Former church counselor admits sexual assault

  April 17, 2010 1:43 PM

  A former church counselor has admitted sexually assaulting five children and faces at least 10 years in prison. Brad Boda pleaded guilty Friday in Boulder County. The former Rocky Mountain High School counselor admitted assaulting five children in 1998, four boys and one girl. At the time, Boda was a... more »

• Court to rule in military funeral protest case

  March 8, 2010 2:38 PM

  The Supreme Court is getting involved in the legal fight over the anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers." The court agreed Monday to consider whether the protesters' message, no matter how provocative and upsetting, is protected by the... more »

• Hundreds line up for annual Christmas giveaway

  December 19, 2009 10:19 AM

  An annual giveaway started by a Denver priest lives on. Hundreds of people, many of the homeless, lined up outside the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver to receive $20 Friday. The holiday season tradition was started by the late Monsignor Charles B. Woodrich. KUSA-TV in Denver reports the... more »

• "I didn't know if I would walk again"

  November 19, 2009 6:37 PM

  Standing on the field at Sand Creek High School, Nathan Pittman recalls the dreams he had as freshmen joining the football team here six years ago. "Just to be an amazing football player," Pittman said. "Go to like 5 Super Bowls, get 5 Super Bowl rings." But those... more »

• Longtime Pueblo bishop welcomes successor

  October 27, 2009 2:02 PM

  On Tuesday Bishop Arthur Tafoya held a news conference to welcome his successor, Fr. Fernando Isern from Miami. Tafoya, who has been the bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Pueblo for 29 years, will retire in mid-December. "I want to thank the good people of Southern Colorado for the warm... more »

• Diocese of Pueblo getting new bishop in December

  October 16, 2009 10:13 AM

  A parish priest in Miami has been selected as the next bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pueblo. The Rev. Fernando Isern replaces 76-year-old Bishop Arthur Tafoya, who is retiring effective Dec. 10. Isern is scheduled to be ordained and installed as the diocese's fourth bishop the same... more »

• Pueblo Bishop announces retirement

  October 15, 2009 4:53 PM

  The Catholic Diocese of Pueblo has announced Bishop Arthur Tafoya will retire on December 10, 2009. The diocese says the Catholic Church requires bishops to retire after turning 75 years old. Bishop Tafoya is 77. Fr. Fernando Isern from Miami will be ordained as the new bishop of Pueblo... more »