Last year, 72 churches statewide participated in No Menthol Sunday. The African American Tobacco Prevention Network wants to add to that number.

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the ...

The newly arrived people are from the ethnic minority of Afrikaners, the group of whites who ruled South Africa during ...

Afrikaners make up South Africa’s largest white group and were the leaders of the apartheid government, which brutally ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

Even by the standards of the past four months, it was an extraordinary moment, as what are apparently the first refugees to ...

The Rev. Ajani Gibson, who heads the predominantly Black congregation at St. Peter Claver Church ... of African American influence on Catholicism in his city. “I think a lot of people take ...

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

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

The decision raised questions from refugee advocates about why they were admitted as the Trump administration has suspended ...

migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his predecessor. Seeing the First American Pope as Hardly American: Catholics around the world were skeptical at ...

The Trump administration granted the group refugee status due to alleged discrimination. South Africa has called the ...