Leaving her home in a middle-class neighborhood of Joliet, Illinois, Carter and her husband, Keith, drive 45 minutes north, through other western Chicago suburbs and into this relatively affluent ...

At the church, the Carters, who are Black, slip into the pews of the predominantly white congregation. Worship is reserved, even solemn — Hope members jokingly describe themselves as the ...

Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish said a 16-year-old Gainesville High School student had every intention of harming members of a black church congregation; in fact, she had already visited Bethel ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has formed a Spanish-speaking congregation in Central Illinois. The Springfield Illinois Stake of the church, more commonly ...

It was last known to be home to the Cephas Christian Church congregation in the 2010s but had been vacant for the last several years. Firefighters initially checked to see if anyone might be ...

The church has always been a pillar within the Black community and when issues ... Pastor Scottie Willis aims to give his congregation truthful and unbiased information when it comes to discussing ...

I became an Anabaptist because of George W. Bush. Well, not so much Bush personally—though the former president’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the context in which I began to grapple with ...

Native American Church members in Texas have long used ... don't want people messing around with it," a Navajo member of a congregation in Rio Grande City, Texas, who asked not to be identified ...

He became the congregation’s co-pastor in 1960 alongside his father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. He remained in that role until his death, and his funeral was held at the church. The church ...

Payne Chapel AME was established 153 years ago, according to the church’s website. “It is the oldest African American church ... to accommodate its growing congregation. Despite the location ...

Day, outgoing President Joe Biden heralded Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy as his political heroes on his last full day in office at a historic black church in South Carolina where he ...