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WELLSVILLE — Prayer gatherings this month at various Allegany County locations will highlight the second anniversary of county churches’ focus on “com...

It was somewhere out west, Denver, I think. My husband, Gordy, enrolled in a weeklong class to maintain his certification as a rural appraiser, one of...

OLEAN — This holiday season, sites in the Olean area will be among 5,000 U.S. drop-off locations collecting shoebox gifts for children overseas during...

OLEAN — Olean First Baptist Church held an official Installation ceremony on Sunday for its new senior pastor, the Rev. Jason Hladik. Officials from t...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My husband and I no longer sleep in the same room. It all started when the air conditioner broke in our bedroom. It was so hot that I ...

OLEAN — Pastor Jason Hladik has been serving Olean First Baptist Church since late June, but will be officially installed as senior pastor on Sunday. ...

OLEAN — St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 109 S. Barry St., will hold its third annual Fall Festival Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. A beer and wine tasting eve...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The sign outside St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Route 219 started as a temporary sign — 35 years ago. Its messages have conveyed news a...

(TNS) “I don’t think this is some massive, massive crisis,” said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., in a statement th...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — A letter condemning same-sex marriage as blasphemous and a perversion was included recently in the church bulletin at St. Eulalia C...

Celebrating its 102nd year as a parish, the St. Bonaventure Church hosted their yearly Bonafest celebration Friday. Here are some photos from the even...

“This year, we’re featuring World War I and World War II,” says Bill Heaney, Belfast town historian and an organizer of the week’s festivities. This y...

OLEAN — A national movement known as Revival Harvest America, which feeds large numbers of people while providing a “Christian message of hope and res...

OLEAN — The bells of the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels will ring Friday for 15 minutes straight in honor of the Very Rev. Gregory J. Dobson, who ...

OLEAN —A new pastor will soon arrive to lead Olean First Baptist Church into its next chapter. Following a unanimous vote by the congregation, the Rev...

OLEAN —A charred hull was all that was left of a red sports utility vehicle after multiple units extinguished a vehicle fire Wednesday evening that ha...

OLEAN — Olean’s two Catholic churches will soon be linked under a single pastor. The Rev. Patrick Melfi will succeed the Very Rev. Gregory Dobson as p...

OLEAN — The Very Rev. Gregory Dobson’s sermon this weekend was about shepherds, who he said can either lead from the front or lead from behind. “I hav...