The church in Mt. Comfort is one of several local congregations who, as a new year begins, set aside focused time for prayer and/or fasting. Greenfield Faith Church had a prayer service at 3 p.m ...

The prayers began late on the eve of the New Year in Hong Kong, where people annually line up at a Taoist temple to try to be the first to put their incense sticks into the stands at 11 p.m.

Religion Watch Night: Escorting the New Year in with prayer Watch Night or “Freedom’s Eve” marks when African Americans across the country watched and waited for the news of freedom.

The attacker, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran from Texas, drove a rented truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day.