Denominational leaders say the latest weakening of protections for minority voters is discouraging but not cause for despair.

The program recently distributed $8.5 million in preservation funding to support structural repairs, conservation work and long-term preservation planning. Thirty-three Black churches across America ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bishop John Wesley Yohanna of the United Methodist Church delivers a message to church members Dec. 10, 2023, at the church's ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to ...

(RNS) — We have been here before, and each time the Black church did not simply encourage participation. We enabled it.

No one can serve two masters, the Bible tells us, yet many black churches actively avoid practicing what they preach by welcoming floundering Democratic politicians into the sanctuary. This campaign ...

It was daunting when the Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley, at age 22, replaced a beloved pastor who had ministered to one of suburban Boston’s most famed Black churches for 24 years. It was more daunting — ...

Rev. John K. Jenkins Sr., pastor of First Baptist Church of Glenarden International in Prince George’s County, Md., says Black History Month reminds Black children they can “rise up” and accomplish ...

I speak Black Church. That is my mother tongue. It is the language I learned at the feet of my grandmother, church mothers, and elders. It is the language I learned in the storefront church of my ...

The Warren Street Methodist Episcopal Church, which has stood for more than 120 years, was recently defaced with graffiti.

The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology. Now, with the approach of its first major ...