STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- For decades, Sundays at Sandy Ground have always been respectfully reserved for family and for faith. Gathering in a small clapboard church on Bloomingdale Rd., dressed in ...

(RNS) — Among those elected during the meeting was Bishop Melanie Miller, the second and only living woman bishop in the historically Black denomination. (RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Zion ...

OAKLAND — A former bishop and lay leader of an historically African American church have been charged in a scheme to defraud Bay Area congregations by obtaining $14 million in loans and mortgaging the ...

Mother A.M.E. Zion Church recently received a $200,000 grant for preservation, but attendance has declined in recent years. By Mia Jackson In the 227 years since its birth, Mother African Methodist ...

A former bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme using church properties throughout California to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in ...

POTOMAC, Md. (7News) — Reporter’s Notebook: For generations, the small Black community of Scotland in Montgomery County struggled under decades of discrimination. Now, they’re close to raising the $11 ...

Big Zion AME Zion Church welcomed Central High School class of 1966 to their worship service in July. The church welcomes all to celebrate their 175th Anniversary celebration on Sept. 17. By Deirdra ...

ST. PAUL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) ZION CHURCH was the first church of the AME Zion denomination established in Cleveland in 1912. As large numbers of AFRICAN-AMERICAN migrants made their way ...

One hundred years ago a building for the Scotland African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church opened up. Now, members of the Second Century Project committee for the church on Seven Locks Road in ...