The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops focused on morality in its own campaign to end capital punishment, which was launched in 2005. And from time to time, popes have made special appeals to ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to have been completely lost to time—was recently discovered in an archival box ...

Details from officials have been hard to come by regarding the June 30 wrong-way crash on the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge that ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

VATICAN CITY >> Pope Leo on Saturday appointed a French archbishop as the new leader of the Vatican’s commission on clergy sexual abuse, in the U.S. pontiff’s first public move to confront an issue ...

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, started Thursday with a ...

A pastor says God and a heroic security team prevented a mass shooting at his Detroit-area church Police identified the alleged gunman as 31-year-old Brian Anthony Browning, who had no prior ...

St. John’s African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Central is Cleveland’s first Black church, founded in 1836. Even though Shiloh wasn’t founded until 1849, Goods said it is sometimes considered ...

The scroll, titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery,” was found on May 24 while Rev. John Odams of First Baptist Church in Boston and historian Jen Cromack of First Baptist Church in ...

Ground had been broken in Virginia for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches. Thursday's Juneteenth ceremony was at Colonial Williamsburg, a museum that owns the land where ...