When more than 10,000 people converged on the small town of Jena, La., last Friday, the Rev. Al Sharpton called their march the beginning of the 21 st-century civil rights movement. He may be right.

Houston's Second Baptist Church recently denied that it had deceived the congregation, after allegations from current and former members that leadership strategized a takeover of the megachurch ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could be one card lighter in their wallets with the Church giving members the option of having the temple recommend ...

Firefighters gather outside the historic Clayborn Temple, a landmark from the Civil Rights Movement ... (Karen Pulfer Focht/AP file) Before the April 28 fire at the Downtown church, there were fires ...

Jena is a rural and remote town of roughly 4,000 in central Louisiana. It is home to one ... Hardy, who leads a church in Jena, said he sometimes saw a bus with blacked-out windows carrying ...

The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple, a historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968, was intentionally set ...

A church spokesperson declined to comment on the appeal but officials have said that a new temple is needed to accommodate its congregation in North Texas. Some Fairview residents and town leaders ...

The Memphis Fire Department will continue its investigation to "apprehend who is responsible for setting the fire at the historic church." Large portions of the historic Clayborn Temple in ...

Some 47 years later, some of those same individuals, along with many others, gathered again — this time for the groundbreaking of the state’s first temple. “Here today begins the greatest spiritual ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A former volunteer for Little Rock’s Immanuel Baptist Church entered a guilty plea in court on Monday for a single count of sexual assault in the second degree. Records show Reagan ...