RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Larry McDonald, the pastor of historic St. Paul AME Church in Raleigh, knows why his faith community is immensely proud of the ministry that began before the Civil War in 1848.

RALEIGH The words on the front of Sunday’s bulletin at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Raleigh might have seemed like a simple message. “You belong here,” they said ...