Charles Hurshell Jones, 88, of Ellisville passed away on July 6, 2025, at the Asbury Hospice House in Hattiesburg. He was born Feb. 22, 1937, in Laurel. Visitation will be Friday, July 11, from 5-7 ...

Visitation and the funeral were Wednesday at First Baptist Chuch of Shady Grove in Laurel. Burial was in Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. Brother Chris Sledge and Brother Sidney Davis officiated ...

Mary Alice Hornsby Cleveland promoted to Heaven on Thursday evening, June 19,2025 at Lifecare Center of Pensacola. She was born July 19, 1928 in Laurel, MS to Russell and Vivian Crane. Mary Alice ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding light on the church's support for ending slavery.

Faith, fellowship and family collide at the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church, a tightly knit congregation tucked just off the roads of Gladeview. For decades, the pulpit at this historic ...

Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church, 1204 St. Joseph St., Baton Rouge, will hold its Family and Friends Day service at 10 a.m. Sunday.

Target has donated $300,000 to the National Baptist Convention and two separate leaders of boycotts against the retailer are calling for the church organization to return the gift. In separate ...

Tyreque Reed is 24 years old. He became the pastor of the Morning Star Baptist Church when he was 23 years old. Outside of pastoring, Reed is a mortician.

Arrangements were announced for long-time University of Southern Mississippi women's basketball coach Joye Lee-McNelis.

The Rev. R.L. Stevenson took over as pastor of Pacific’s Historic First Baptist Church in 2021, four years after it had last ...

In March 1906, the trustees of First Baptist Church (the name had changed because there were other Baptist churches in Vicksburg and this was the first one) hired architect M. J. Donovan to ...