Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church that played an ...

VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United ...

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Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become the next pope.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope ... including the Church body that promotes social justice, human rights and world peace.

“That’s the legacy of our church.” Founded in 1838 and part of the nation’s first independent Black denomination, the congregation laid the building’s cornerstone in 1881. AME churches ...

Live updates: Black smoke signals no pope named in today's first conclave ... "outside world." Before voting, the cardinals discuss the needs and challenges facing the Catholic Church.

Black smoke ... Catholic Church. The pope is usually dressed in white, while cardinals are dressed in scarlet robes. Cardinals are bishops and Vatican officials from around the world, typically ...

After the first round of voting ... technological progress but which tends to forget God. Today's world expects much from the church regarding the safeguarding of those fundamental human and ...

During her life, her Christ Universal Temple was the largest church congregation in Chicago and the largest church in the world headed by a Black woman.