After nearly 100 years of existence, Archbishop Fabre made the news official last month that Christ the King Church would ...

The hope that Pope Leo XIV has enkindled in Dolton is also enkindled for those who remember the shuttered church that formed ...

On May 6, 1948, vocalist and choir director Elizabeth Coleman performed the gospel standard “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder” for an ...

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

but what shocked me was the subplot of the complicated relationship between African Americans and Christianity. Growing up in a Baptist community in New York City, Sunday school, choir practices and ...

On Sundays, Manor resident Ardtria Griffin wakes before dawn to pray, put on her black or red usher’s uniform and make the long drive to her church in central East Austin. In recent months, she ...

On Sundays in the late 1960s, the pastor, ministers, and choir of Metropolitan African ... in reference to two common African American church practices. “Now we’re letting our hair down.” ...

The group will perform African American religious music from ... and two-thirds contemporary gospel. The choir tends to perform spiritual works that are passed on through the oral tradition in the ...

As I sat off to the side, scribbling notes, Isa S. Chu, the marketing and programs manager of the OIGC, nudged me. “Are you singing?” she asked. “You should be ...

Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" explores themes of oppression and colonization through the lens of religion, specifically focusing on the complicated relationship between African Americans and Christianity.

Francis, whatever his doctrinal differences with the African church, was adored across the continent, said Andreas Mac Mabior, a South Sudanese political analyst who leads the choir at the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Shiloh AME Zion Church, West Brighton, celebrated another milestone on Saturday, marking 119 years of ...