A historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Pennsylvania has been appointed its first woman pastor since the congregation was founded in the late 18th century.

(RNS) — In early November, the Rev. Carolyn Cavaness was already bracing for a big task — preaching the closing sermon at the fall convocation of the First Episcopal District of the African ...

AME-GFHC23 564 × 1280 Published in #FaithWorks: 7th Episcopal District Announces God First Holy Convocation ...

Thomas was selected as presiding bishop of the First Episcopal District, which includes Tennessee and Arkansas, earlier this year.

For the first time in 16 years, a new senior pastor will lead the congregation at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tallahassee.

But a district title is a good first step and Parish Episcopal nailed that down with a 49-40 victory over Prestonwood Christian at home on Friday night.

Vice President Kamala Harris is in South Carolina on Saturday to give the keynote speech at a local church. Harris is appearing before the Women's Missionary Society of the Seventh District ...

The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and law firm WilmerHale brought the case on behalf of the Sixth District of the African ...

South Carolina native Frederick Calhoun James, the oldest Methodist bishop in the world, has passed away at the age of 102. (Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church) ...

Last week the 46 Quadrennial Conference of the AME Church named the Rev. Donald Gregory Kenneth Ming as the Bishop of the First Episcopal District.

After an 0-4 start, Ascension Episcopal got into the win column by routing West St. John 42-0 last week. Blue Gators coach Stephen Hearen, whose team travels to 1-4 Catholic-New Iberia in a ...

A witness describes what he saw before Oakland's first Black church, First African Methodist Episcopal Church, caught fire Sunday night.