Preachers like John Marrant proclaimed the gospel across cultures. But the persistence—and defense—of slavery challenged ...

Yet the independence of black churches was curbed by law and by the white Southern response to slave uprisings and abolition. In the years leading up to the Civil War, the black church found its ...

The first Black congregations in America pre-date the nation’s founding in 1776. Since then, African American churches continue to support faith and the fight for civil rights across the country ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

When [Pope Leo] came to the balcony, I looked up, and I was like, ‘That dude looks like he could be my brother,” a New ...

The church and others will work with high school students and youth groups to educate them on the Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War and hailed from either their county or town.

The Maronite Church is ready to form a committee of elders ... the Land of the Cedars commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of civil war on the same day in 1975, a conflict with ...

Yet the independence of black churches was curbed by law and by the white Southern response to slave uprisings and abolition. In the years leading up to the Civil War, the black church found its ...

The first Black congregations in America pre-date the nation's founding in 1776. Since then, African American churches continue to support faith, and the fight for Civil Rights across the country ...