Five days after the police-involved, Memorial Day murder of George Floyd in 2020, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, ...

A silver communion cup a cotton plantation owner's wife gave to a church she built for enslaved workers is returned.

Using smoke to communicate to the public whether a new pope has been elected is somewhat a recent tradition for the Catholic Church ... of the smoke — white (positive) and black (negative ...

Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

In the United States, the Black church emerged as a response to enslavement and as a powerful indictment of White Christian nationalism. The Black church sheltered fugitives, fed the hungry, educated ...

As he does one day each month, the Rev. Robert Turner hit the road from his home in Baltimore recently and traveled — on foot — 43 miles (69 kilometers) to Washington. Sign up for our Daily ...

If black smoke plumes over the Vatican, observers know a new pope has yet to be chosen. If white smoke is spotted, folks will know a new pope has been selected to lead the Catholic Church.

MEMPHIS -- A historic Black church in downtown Memphis ... was built in 1892 as the Second Presbyterian Church and originally served an all-white congregation. In 1949, the building was sold ...

The election of the pope is a major geopolitical event – the leader of the Catholic Church represents and ... doubt as to whether the smoke is white or black – something that had caused ...

Mount Hope AME Zion Church hopes to sell five acres of the six-acre Stoney Hill Cemetery, a historic Black burial ground ... The church, which is located in White Plains, 1.5 miles from the ...

In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals have made a decision, or black if ... calling other churches in Rome ...