In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its ...

Centuries ago in Grafton, West Virginia, a woman named Ann Jarvis was a light for the people in her community and the inspiration for what is now a national hol ...

The first official Mother’s Day service was held on May 12, 1908, at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton—the same church where her mother once taught. The momentum was unstoppable. By 1911, ...

Mother’s Day was first celebrated as a local event in 1908 at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church of Grafton, West Virginia. It quickly became a national holiday by 1914. Anna Jarvis, the woman behind ...

EL CENTRO—Mary Helen McCombs, Senior Warden of Saints Peter and Paul Episcopal Church ... McCombs, a decades-long church member, said a roommate in her freshman college year made her move from the ...

People joined together Friday at the Mass for the Pope at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in support of the new leader. People in attendance, like Juan Garcia, who was raised in the Catholic Church ...

Ann Reeves Jarvis was a Methodist laywoman living in Grafton, West Virginia ... in a service of worship at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in May 1907. She provided 500 white carnations ...

The first official Mother’s Day service took place on May 10, 1908, at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton. Just six years later, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Mother ...

Offerings and donations can be mailed to 9 Church Street, Bellows Falls, VT. Services at Immanuel Episcopal Church ... First Baptist/United Methodist churches, 18 Town Crier Drive. Service begins at ...

That landlord is the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the historically Black churches in the Fillmore, which owns the property. Bobby Sisk, who is a steward of the church and sits on ...

On May 10, 1908, the first Mother's Day service was held in Grafton, West Virginia, at what was the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church. It is now known as the International Mother's Day Shrine.