Richard Allen, born into slavery near Smyrna, rose to found the AME Church and promote rights for African Americans. Some of his most notable achievements are illustrated in a new mural unveiled ...

The events will also highlight the preservation efforts of Selma's historic Brown Chapel AME church. Civil and communal leaders will join the historic Brown Chapel AME Church and the African ...

A construction job inside a historic African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church at the Jersey Shore led to a discovery 134 years in the making. In August 2024, Kyle Carter, a contractor, was working ...

The Rev. Julius H. McAllister Jr., senior pastor of Bethel AME Church in Tallahassee, was confirmed as the 144 th elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Monday. The selection was ...

In addition, choirs from the DuPage AME Church in Lisle and St. John AME Church in Aurora and the Naperville Youth Singers will perform. “Dr. King understood better than anyone the significance ...

“The Doctrine and Discipline” of the denomination says “the AME Church believes that unions of any kind between persons of the same sex or gender are contrary to the will of God.” The AME ...

African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church announces a settlement with retired ministers who sued over withheld pension disbursements following former retirement services executive embezzlement scandal.

(RNS) — In a joint address, AME bishops called for the creation of ‘accountability measures for every elected and appointed leader within our church.’ (RNS) — The African Methodist ...

The settlement, which must still be approved by a judge, came Monday as delegates to the AME Church general conference are meeting in Columbus, Ohio, for their quadrennial meeting that concludes on ...

“Pastoring is my ministry,” said Cain-Grizzell, whose lineage in the historically Black AME denomination traces back five ... They are among those asking how the church will live up to its goal of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Mother Emanuel AME Church is remembering the nine parishioners of the church who were gunned down in a shooting on June 17, 2015. Monday marks the ninth anniversary of the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The nine-year mark of the tragic Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting that took the lives of nine church parishioners nears. The planned memorial for those who lost their ...