Women in leadership: In Black denominations, women making strides amid hesitancy
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports from the US on where Black denominations stand on women’s leadership…
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church celebrates paid-off debts at major meeting
RNS The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church opened its General Conference in the US with a worship service celebrating its paid-off debts. “We loved our church and we wanted to make sure that when we came to General Conference we would have enough money saved by making these transactions, so when we came here the […]
US SLAVERY ANNIVERSARY: FROM NEW YORK TO ALABAMA, BLACKS WORSHIPPED IN OWN SPACES BEFORE ABOLITION
As the US marks the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of African slaves in Virginia, ADELLE M BANKS, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how black communities gathered in their own churches in the years before the official abolition of slavery…