The Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously Wednesday at an emergency meeting to designate the Church of the Holy Cross as a historic landmark.
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Officials with St. John the Evangelist want to build the 2,800-square-foot facility as part of a larger $5.5 million renovation that started in 2021. They hope to finish in time for the huge National Eucharistic Congress planned for Indianapolis in July.
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Mickey Shuey and Eastern Star officials said they plan to use the property to grow the church’s community development efforts, including the $25 million Renewing Our Community for the Kingdom, or ROCK, initiative.
A church that owns a deteriorating historical property on the city’s near-east side received an incremental legal victory in an ongoing fight against the city of Indianapolis over whether a historical designation blocking demolition violates the church’s religious freedom.
The Indianapolis-based organization, which serves the Chin community, purchased the 110-acre site with plans for it to become a national destination for church members in 27 states.
Parish leaders claim a city board’s October vote to prohibit the demolition of the century-old Holy Cross church “intruded on St. Philip Neri Catholic Church’s religious exercise and violated its religious autonomy.”
Successful adaptive reuses of historic church structures can be an uphill climb, often pitting church organizations at odds with neighbors.
Banning nonprofits—including congregations—from participating in political campaigns violates the First Amendment’s protection of the right to the free exercise of religion and freedom of speech, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said in a court filing Monday.
Cheers erupted in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square on Thursday as cardinals announced with a billow of white smoke and the clamor of church bells that a successor to Pope Francis had been named.
The National Bank of Indianapolis and New Direction Church announced a partnership that’s designed to support economic development and access to financial services along the East 38th Street corridor.
La Hermosa Christian Church filed the suit after the nonprofit lender allegedly declined to release $7.3 million in loan funding advances for a proposed development on the church’s property near Central Park.
The National Eucharistic Congress will use about 27,000 hotel room nights over five days. The event officially runs Wednesday through Sunday, but a welcome service took place Tuesday night at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (see photo gallery in story).
Our guest this week is Ken Ogorek of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, who discusses the revival and purpose of the Eucharistic Congress after an 83-year absence.
The event will be the church’s first national gathering in more than 80 years, marking one of the most significant religious events the city has ever hosted.
Over the next six to 12 months, the organization will be scaling up in order to play what one organizer called “offense” in a statewide push for efforts intended to decrease poverty, a root cause of crime.
On Wednesday, church representatives are expected to debate whether to amend their constitution to ban churches with any women pastors—from lead to associate roles. The measure received preliminary approval last year.
Messengers—as voting delegates are known—will vote on whether to establish a constitutional ban on churches with women pastors. They’ll hear a report—and get outside criticism—of their handling of sexual abuse among their clergy.
More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination.
A request to replat the site initially led to some concern among neighbors that some of First Baptist Church’s property would be used for housing development.
Johnson is also an author, as well as president and CEO of eight organizations. “Sacrifice is extremely significant for success,” he said. “What you walk away from will determine what you walk in to.”
The Indianapolis-based organization says the funding will expand training opportunities, build congregational capacities, and assist with stewardship of historic churches.
The Promise United Methodist Church stopped holding services in November 2021. The building, which includes a 21,000-square-foot theater, was most recently used as a preschool until the summer of 2022.
