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 ...

The church has spent the last few years planning to build affordable housing at the site of its worship center.

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 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Harlem, N.Y., hosts a voter registration drive in 2008. Federal prosecutors say two former leaders of the AME Zion Church's Western District conspired ...

University AME Zion Church singers and musicians perform “Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)” by Casting Crowns in the Palo Alto church’s sanctuary on April 12, 2020. Photo by Magali Gauthier. An ...

After some discussion about moving, Varick Memorial AME Zion Church is staying at its historic Dixwell Avenue location in New Haven. Families have gathered there for nearly 115 years, but the story of ...

Preservation Buffalo Niagara (PBN) is in the midst of helping Centennial AME Zion Church to secure its landmark status. The church, located at 127 Doat Street – a couple of blocks from Bailey and ...

The AME Zion Church, a historic black denomination, has assigned an African-born bishop as the new leader of the 300 African Methodist Episcopal churches in Alabama and Florida. "There's always the ...

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 ...

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 ...