A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

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 ...

Jun. 19—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 ...

In Albury, Surrey, England, there is a church that you are not allowed to enter. Not yet, anyway. Built in 1839, the church is not due to be reopened until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

That church grew to have more than 900 sites worldwide. When those apostles died, the church was closed for a "time of silence", beginning in 1901 and to last until the Second Coming.

OVIEDO, Fla. — Following approval of the rezoning for a historic Black church and school in Oviedo, leaders of the foundation pushing to renovate the building into a museum said all the pieces ...

A historic Black church took the Proud Boys to court. Now it controls their trademark By TIFFANY STANLEY The Associated Press, Updated April 3, 2025, 12:53 p.m.

For many Black Americans, their Christian faith is not only a key dimension of their identity; it rivals the importance of their national and racial identities and is in fact intertwined with them.

Located near the Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House and Corbit Family Cemetery, Zoar Church’s refined brick building was built in 1881 by free Black residents, all of whom were successful ...

A historic Black church in Pickens County, South Carolina, has received a $250,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

The text around the Proud Boys logo, now owned by the church, reads “Stay Proud, Stay Black” on one shirt, and “Stay Proud, Black Lives Matter” on the other.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A historic Black church whose Black Lives Matter sign was destroyed by members of the extremist group Proud Boys is now selling T-shirts using the group’s logo, after the ...