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MATTHEW HINTON/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Church members pack Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans on Sunday for its first service since Aug, 27, 2005.
NEW ORLEANS - Facing loss and heartbreak within its community, one church is trying to make a difference in the wake of that deadly triple shooting in Gentilly. The New Hope Baptist Church is ...
The wife of a New Orleans-area pastor was killed when someone who carjacked her ran her over with her vehicle in Gentilly on Tuesday night, according to officials.
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WGNO) — One Hope Church in Gentilly recently bought an abandoned church building — after holding services for eight years in a school, Langston Hughes Academy. The new church ...
A New Orleans church group thwarted an attempted car theft in the Desire area Tuesday morning. The attempted car theft happened in the 4000 block of Old Gentilly Road. Sign up for our Newsletters ...
Work is expected to start within the month of a new multipurpose building for Transfiguration of the Lord Catholic Church parish in Gentilly.
Jackie James, a supervisor of Southern Baptist volunteers rebuilding houses in the Gentilly neighborhood, had seen plenty of misery in nearly two years of helping families in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Emma Toomer joins in singing hymns during Sunday morning services at the Greater Evergreen Baptist Church in New Orleans' 9th Ward.
NEW ORLEANS — The Celebration Church family in Metairie is mourning after the wife of a local pastor and mother of one of their own members died Tuesday after she was run over in Gentilly during ...
A parishioner leaving a Gentilly church backed into the structure Sunday, damaging the church and leaving several people with minor injuries.
NEW ORLEANS -- Police are looking for two people they say burglarized a Gentilly church and damaged its air-conditioning units.