Rita was born and raised in Croghan, NY. She began her career in the banking industry and later worked at the First Baptist Church of Penfield and the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Court records show Rochester police found a half-gallon jug of hand sanitizer in a nearby dumpster after the fire was under control; about a fourth of the jug was left without its ...

A rendering of the McKinney Texas Temple, 120-feet tall and about 30,000-square-feet large. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints submitted plans for this version, a compromise from the ...

Protecting that identity is why Lessner says the town has been in a stalemate for the past year with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Related: A timeline of Fairview’s temple ...

the destruction of the temple, and everything that this theory casts as instigating the shift from the spiritual to the literal in Christian faith. In Paul, as in the Gospels, you don’t have ...

After hearing O’Connor speak on campus, a college freshman wrote to her about his struggles with faith. In earnest, she responded: “If you want your faith, you have to work for it. It is a ...

In a statement released Tuesday, church spokesperson Melissa McKneely announced that the Utah-based faith had officially submitted the new plan for a smaller McKinney Temple to Fairview ...

Those words from my district superintendent started a 2-1/2-month-long journey of seeking God’s will about moving from one church to another ... we were walking by faith. Everything was out ...

A New Mexico diocese is offering a unique opportunity for young men to affirm their faith and literally build up the Church in the American Southwest. Until March 31, the Diocese of Gallup is ...

In the 1980s, faith-based organizations were prime movers in rebuilding New York City’s burned-out neighborhoods. Tens of thousands of affordable homes and apartments were built in less than a ...