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Leaders of a local Black Lives Matter coalition in Minnesota organized the disruption of Sunday services at a Minneapolis-area Christian church.

Jonathan Parnell, the pastor who led the disrupted service, is a missionary with Ezell’s group and serves dozens of Southern ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Trinity United Church of Christ in Bethlehem held their final service on Sunday morning. Due to dwindling parishioners, Trinity sold its church in September. Its legacy of charity is ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — A special New Year’s Day service reflected on the past, while planning for the city’s future. The annual Emancipation Proclamation Service at Olivet Baptist Church served as a way to ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Rochester held a service on New Year’s Eve honoring Watch Night, the day that enslaved people secretly gathered at homes and churches to wait for the ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — An Albany congregation plans to welcome the New Year by hosting a Watch Night Service—and you’re invited to attend. Mt. Zion Baptist Church’s Watch Night Service starts at 9 p.m.

OREGON CITY, Ore. — Parishioners of Reformation Covenant Church gathered Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Oregon City after a fire damaged their own church building on Christmas Day. The church's ...

JACKSON, Tenn. — West Jackson Baptist Church held a special candlelight service on Christmas Eve. The service started with a baptism which led into the service where they lit Christ candles. There was ...

"The best way to put this is that I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man," Rev. Phillipa Phaneuf said Nicholas Rice is a Senior News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE Magazine. He ...