“Pentecost Has Come,” roared the September 1906 headline of the Apostolic Faith newspaper, published by an obscure mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. New Testament Christianity finally was being ...

A group of religious and civic leaders is seeking public support for a long-stalled memorial in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo honoring the African American preacher who a century ago launched a ...

VALLEY CREEK | Nearly an hour into a prayer service Monday, the preacher asked anyone with diabetes to come to the altar. Immediately, Jimmy Bevelle came forward. About 20 others also made their way ...

What if the key to understanding American democracy lies not in marble hallways but in a dusty Los Angeles horse stable, where a one-eyed Black preacher gathered people to pray? In the spring of 1906, ...

Dr. Estrelda Alexander will present the 10th Annual Azusa Lecture, “From Azusa to Cleveland: Embracing Our Common Heritage” on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. in the North Cleveland Church of God’s Dixon ...

Butler: The Azusa Street revival... started in April, 1906, with a group of African American washpeople... When the Azusa Street revival happened and Pentecostalism came to Los Angeles, it was a new ...

Bishop Otis Clark began his life as a Pentecostal as a young man in the same place where that movement was born: the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles. The 106-year-old Seattle resident was in ...

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ Unintelligible murmurs fill Faith Tabernacle Church. Some jabber and sway. Some shout “Hallelujah” Some ecstatically clap their hands. It has been 100 years since the Pentecostal ...

Last Sunday evening, December 7, a plump pastor named Lee Minemann interrupted services in the largest Protestant church in Guadalajara, Mexico. Taking the podium, Minemann announced that Samuel ...