Six months after a stolen car crashed into St. John African Methodist Church for the second time in just half a year, the ...

Faith, fellowship and family collide at the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church, a tightly knit congregation tucked just ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A ceremonial groundbreaking will be held Thursday for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before ...

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg established itself in 1776, although parishioners met before then in fields and under trees in defiance of laws that prevented African Americans from ...

The Rev. Dr. Brown explained in a 2019 Church News video that “Come, Come Ye Saints” and the iconic Black spiritual “Lift ...

Lela Johnson, 97, was a member of one of the oldest Black churches in North Carolina. She recalls lugging water from the ...

The congregation numbered about 500, which included people on surrounding plantations. Services likely occurred outside the church as well.

The congregation numbered about 500, which included people on surrounding plantations. Services likely occurred outside the church as well.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The rebuilding of one of the nation's oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia ...