I’M KAREN HOLMES WARD TODAY ON CITYLINE THREE NEW BOOKS THAT DISCUSS THE CHANGING INFLUENCE OF THE BLACK CHURCH, HOW A CONGREGATION HELPED HEAL A COMMUNITY, AND A THEOLOGICAL AND BIOETHICAL APPROACH ...

Black churches across the U.S. are seeing a decline in attendance. “Bedside Baptist Church” members, a term coined to name people who virtually watch church in their bedrooms, became a thing during ...

(NEXSTAR) — The first Black congregations in America pre-date the nation’s founding in 1776. Since then, African American churches continue to support faith, and the fight for Civil Rights across the ...

Washington — 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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday extolled the existence of Black churches, saying the world would be a different place if they were not around to show people the “power of faith” ...

A popular tradition in the Black church will again be recognized near midnight on New Year’s Eve as most others across the ...

There is something both sinister and cowardly about trying to destroy Black Jesus. Black churches in North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee have burned in the weeks following ...

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, started ...

Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, Miami’s oldest Black church, plans to build a new addition to accommodate growth in its summer classes to enrich Black students in the West Coconut Grove community ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — The first Black congregations in ...