Area houses of worship are invited to share their news for our free weekly listings. Email information to Mercury Editor Tony Phyrillas at tphyrillas@pottsmerc.com ...

More than 60 years after surviving the deadly bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Sarah Collins Rudolph continues to ...

Shirley worked as a school aide within the Philadelphia School District and continued to work/volunteer within the school ...

The 2024-25 high school boys basketball season will wrap up early this week and the postseason will begin by the weekend. The teams that have been strong all season continue to be strong and now are ...

The Greater Allen AME Cathedral of New York is thrilled to announce its 42nd Annual Women's Conference, PowHER 2025, taking ...

MATTERA, MARY LOU Mary Lou Mattera, 91, born April 21, 1933 in Chestnut Hill, PA, passed on January 23, 2025 at Crest Haven ...

Numerous faith leaders across the U.S. say the immigration crackdown launched by President Donald Trump’s new administration has sown fear within their migrant-friendly congregations.

NBCUSA members and guests filled the 2,000-seat sanctuary of the historic Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, for a three-hour service last week. Some 500 people planned to ...

The Norristown Fire Department has revealed the cause of the fire that destroyed a historic church in just a matter of hours the first week of the year. Authorities said the multiple-alarm fire at ...

CSM (R) Pastor Albert Robinson, Jr. was born on September 20, 1943 in Philadelphia, PA. He passed away on January 5, 2025, in Augusta, GA. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, January 18, 2025, ...

Archbishop Nelson Pérez issued a pastoral letter on Jan. 5 that presented his vision for revitalizing the Catholic Church of Philadelphia and inviting everyone to be part of that process.

Past the red doors of the historic Calvary Baptist Church in ... Moore was raised in North Philadelphia. Now the senior pastor of the Dover Christian Church in Dover, Delaware, he said King ...