Six months after a stolen car crashed into St. John African Methodist Church for the second time in just half a year, the ...

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday ...

The church had two white pastors, the first of whom was Levi Horner, who — in a small, framed photograph at the church — appears serious and unsmiling, wearing a stovepipe hat.

Since its earliest hush harbor existence on American soil, the Black Church has been more than a sanctuary for the soul — it ...

A white church with green trim has sat on the corner of 10th Street and Grady Avenue in Charlottesville since 1939. In the 84 years that have passed since it ...

Believing no man should own another, in 1775 he built a Baptist church where Black and white, slave and free, could all worship together.” ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A ceremonial groundbreaking will be held Thursday for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before ...

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg established itself in 1776, although parishioners met before then in fields and under trees in defiance of laws that prevented African Americans from ...

Meanwhile, others—like Thomas Paul’s Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York—came at the request of Black congregants who initiated a process to separate from an integrated church.

On that horrible night in 2015, nine Black church members were gunned down by a white man who hated them just for the color of their skin. He sat with them through their Bible study, then as they ...

Charleston, S.C., is marking 10 years since one of the nation's most heinous hate crimes, when a white supremacist shot and killed nine Black worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.