STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- For decades, Sundays at Sandy Ground have always been respectfully reserved for family and for faith. Gathering in a small clapboard church on Bloomingdale Rd., dressed in ...

(RNS) — Among those elected during the meeting was Bishop Melanie Miller, the second and only living woman bishop in the historically Black denomination. (RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Zion ...

Mount Zion AME Zion Church debuted a memorial this weekend to honor the Montgomery Bus Boycott, highlighting its role in the ...

One hundred years ago a building for the Scotland African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church opened up. Now, members of the Second Century Project committee for the church on Seven Locks Road in ...

SOUTHPORT -- St. James AME Zion Church will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the church’s 1866 founding on Sunday. It was the town's first black church and was originally named the Methodist ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Studies show Black Americans are four times more likely to develop kidney failure than White Americans. Health experts say a lack of awareness and underrepresentation in clinical ...

The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church will hold its 50th Quadrennial Conference at the Sheraton Four Seasons Hotel & Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, N.C. from July 20-26 to take ...

The 136th church anniversary will be celebrated at Third Creek AME Zion Church, 415 E. Main St. in Cleveland, during a parking lot service at 1 p.m. today. The special guest preacher will be the Rev.

The congregation of the Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church in Poughkeepsie has worshiped at three different sites and four buildings since it was established in 1836. Since that time, it has served ...

Preservation Buffalo Niagara (PBN) is in the midst of helping Centennial AME Zion Church to secure its landmark status. The church, located at 127 Doat Street – a couple of blocks from Bailey and ...

OAKLAND — A former bishop and lay leader of an historically African American church have been charged in a scheme to defraud Bay Area congregations by obtaining $14 million in loans and mortgaging the ...