Two hundred guests recently celebrated the pastoral anniversary for the Rev. Damone Jones, who has led Bible Way Baptist ...

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 that slaves in ...

In newly formed Black congregations, the famous abolitionist and others were able to live out their faith—and affirm their ...

Mother Emanuel is the largest African American church in Charleston and one of the oldest AME churches south of the ...

As the African American attendance at the church grew, they were told they must sit in a segregated portion of the balcony. When Absalom Jones refused, he and Allen led the African Americans out ...

The pioneering Rev. Absalom Jones — a history-making reverend, abolitionist and the first Black priest ordained in the Episcopal Church — was recognized at the “Blessed Absalom Jones ...

There will be a special choral prayer service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, commemorating the Rev. Absalom Jones, who was born into slavery and became the first ...

While the church’s presence in Yakima dates to 1906 ... Its founders, preachers Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, envisioned the society as providing spiritual support, fellowship and financial ...

saw a white official at the church pull his fellow Black preacher, Absalom Jones, to his feet as Jones knelt in prayer. Cavaness is the first woman to lead Mother Bethel. A fourth-generation ...

Franklin’s tomb is in the nearby Christ Church burial ground. One church member, Absalom Jones, attended services at a sister congregation while enslaved to a man serving in the church leadership.

One church member, Absalom Jones, attended services at a sister congregation while enslaved to a man serving in the church leadership. Jones bought his freedom and eventually became ordained by ...