CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Leaders with the Historic Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church are working to preserve the church for many years to come as it is such an important piece of ...

© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. Nearly 10 years ago, on the evening of June 17, 2015, a disturbed young high school dropout named ...

Within the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church’s 162-year-old brick walls is a venerable American history collection. It includes A.M.E. church founder Richard Allen’s Bible, the pulpit ...

CHICO — Bethel African American Episcopal Church claims it is Chico’s oldest church and has a long history in the city. In 1858 Methodist Episcopal Church South was founded in Chico. In 1867, St.

The nation’s oldest black denomination will bring one of the nation’s oldest national gatherings to St. Louis July 4-11. More than 30,000 conventioneers are expected to descend upon Downtown St. Louis ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – It’s a day that scarred the Lowcountry forever. A lone gunman launched an attack on one of the oldest churches in the south, Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston, during ...

Marysville’s Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church has been present in the Yuba-Sutter region for 170 years and never before held a community celebration honoring February as Black History ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- You’ve probably heard of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. It stands on the corner of Michigan and Ferry in the city of Buffalo. What you know of bethel AME today ...

Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma is among a group of historic churches nationwide being awarded $1 million grants. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, a program of the National Trust ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Following the end of the Civil War, a request to have the Black Chaplain of the Union Army preach at Front St. Methodist Church was denied. As a result, the African American ...