The morning after Palm Sunday, a mysterious procession of red-clad figures enters the main square of Texistepeque, a small ...

became the center of a heated debate after the Town Council denied The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, a permit request for the McKinney Texas Temple.

Most Oregon locals have heard some version of these stories, and there is a simmering tension between the church and the small town they call home. The town has a population of about 4,000 and a ...

The Church of Jesus Christ ... process,” Trythall wrote. Town leaders and some residents say the temple’s size and height don’t fit in with Fairview’s small town character.

One of Jesse Morris’ earliest memories is sitting on his father’s shoulders at the church on Webster Street, in Oregon, Illinois, waiting for his pastor to rise from the dead. On an early ...

Frankie Crooks has roots in Courtland Church, a small 19th-century house of God set in the northeast Texas city of Atlanta. Her late father, a Baptist deacon, took the family to the church every ...