In August 2024, the historic Elm Grove Baptist Church, the first African American church in Arkansas -- built by slaves in 1843 -- marked its 181st birthday, having survived Jim Crow, racial ...

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Cindy Rudolph from Oak Grove AME Church. American Black Journal is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire ...

In recent years, Pope Francis has made ecumenical gestures toward the Anglican church, traveling with Welby and a Scottish Protestant leader to South Sudan in 2023 and allowing Welby to celebrate ...

LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The Church of England faced pressure on Wednesday to ensure people are held to account for systematically covering up allegations of abuse, one day after the Archbishop ...

5 general election. (Courtesy of Alfred Street Baptist Church) This story was originally published online with Word In Black, a collaboration of the nation’s leading Black news publishers (of which ...

There has been a trend in some evangelical churches, noted Moore, to offer “scent-free services” in their schedules. By doing this, church leaders are saying: “We have some people with allergies, so ...

Just as the church ... Black slaves. One missionary, Francis Le Jau, insisted that slaves sign a pledge, wherein they promised not to “ask for holy baptism out of any design to free [themselves ...

Rev. Dennis C. Langdon, pastor of the Olympia Fields and Trinity United Methodist Churches in Olympia, Illinois, said, “The church [is] a political arm of the Black community. [It] was the community ...

The peninsula’s three historically Black Episcopal churches each have a unique story. St. Stephen’s was established in 1822 as the first “free” church in America where anyone was welcome ...

Danyelle Thomas’ The Day God Saw Me as Black, actress Aunjanue ... or marginalized by traditional church spaces and are looking to feel more seen and more free in their relationship with God.