Nearly 200 churches in the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church were approved to leave the denomination after an online vote was ratified on Sunday. The vote was taken during a ...

One of the oldest African American churches in the country is celebrating a milestone. Members of the historic Spirit Creek Baptist Church honored their 225th anniversary. They held at gala Saturday ...

For years, churches and nonprofits have banded together money to bail out people from jail, often in time for Mother's Day or Father's Day. But these wide-scale initiatives could be significantly ...

Founded over 20 years ago, the church expanded quickly in recent years, as Lawrenceville drew many recent arrivals from the border, maybe even the most out of any community in Georgia, according ...

But wide-scale initiatives like the one that paid $50,000 for her pretrial release on drug trafficking charges in May 2022 could be significantly restricted, if not criminalized, under a Georgia ...

Vice President Kamala Harris visited churches in Georgia on Sunday, urging congregants to cast early ballots as part of her campaign’s “souls to the polls” push to turn out Black voters.

Atlanta church pays off millions in medical debt for others A Forsyth County church helped pay off millions in medical debt for more than 2,000 people in Fulton and Forsyth County. FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga.

ATLANTA (AP) — Senate Bill 63, which passed the GOP-dominated Legislature earlier this month, would expand the number of charges that require cash bail, while restricting who can post that bail.

ATLANTA – When she was behind bars in Georgia, Nia Thomas would use toothpaste to stick handwritten flyers to the wall and spread the word about community bail funds that could pay inmates ...