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On Friday, just after 11 a.m., a disturbance occurred in the parking lot of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, located on NW Crawford Place.
NEW YORK (RNS) — The hearing marked the first step in a second lawsuit filed against the Abyssinian Baptist Church over the election of the Rev. Kevin R. Johnson.
The suspect in the Richmond Road Baptist Church shooting in Lexington, Kentucky has been identified as Guy House.
A preacher from the Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Indianapolis said LGBTQ+ people "deserve the death penalty." ...
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - David Dykes, the longtime former senior pastor for Green Acres Baptist Church has died, the church announced Thursday. The church released the following statement: “ Pastor David ...
Multiple fire units responded to a structure fire Tuesday evening at 24th Street Missionary Baptist Church in Columbus.
The list is long. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was elected to Congress in 1944, and at the same time was serving as the pastor of the prestigious Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.
Former NYC Deputy Mayor and United Way of NYC CEO, Sheena Wright, once served as the chief executive officer of Abyssinian Development Corporation. She first arrived in Harlem from the South Bronx ...
Meanwhile, others—like Thomas Paul’s Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York—came at the request of Black congregants who initiated a process to separate from an integrated church.
Jennifer Lyell has previously made headlines for her allegations against a Southern Baptist Convention professor.
Jennifer Lyell, a former executive at a Southern Baptist publishing house who became an early whistle-blower against sexual abuse in her denomination, died on Saturday in Nashville.
Former church pastor Scott Haught, 54, of Saginaw, was sentenced to serve up to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing two of his daughters.