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The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before ...
Ahead of Juneteenth, leaders of local, historic African American churches reflected on the importance of the church for the Black community in Decatur. Juneteenth commemorates the day that slaves in ...
Mother Emanuel is the largest African American church in Charleston and one of the oldest AME churches south of the ...
East Texas cities filled their streets with cars and floats celebrating Juneteenth. One Black community in Mount Pleasant ...
For anyone attending a contemporary African American worship service, the experience carries “an expectation of participation,” said the Rev. Derrick Hammond, pastor of Oak Valley Baptist Church in ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The rebuilding of one of the nation's oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia… ...
The church sits off Fifth Street, at the entrance to Spur 280 in downtown Fort Worth. At 150 years old, it is Fort Worth’s oldest African American Baptist church.
In an African-American, low-income community, about one third of the residents attend church regularly. Church attendance was associated with multiple positive health care practices. Those who ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A church in Sioux Falls is once again stepping up to help people suffering from the war in Ukraine. After raising almost 150 thousand dollars in earlier efforts ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — People of faith gathered again at Mother Emanuel AME on Tuesday just like they did 10 years ago, searching for God’s truth and His love in the church fellowship hall.