Global trailblazer Rev. Dr. Joan Louise Wharton retires after 39 years of pastoral leadership in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

several African American religious leaders like those in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church asserted that the major obstacle to liberty and equality in the United States and across the globe ...

The defendants in the December settlement are the annuity plan, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, AMEC Department of Retirement Services, AMEC General Board and AMEC Council of Bishops ...

Bishop George Edward Battle Jr., the former head of The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, known for his championing of educational opportunities in North Carolina, has died at 77.

founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Although he at first denied her request, Bishop Allen was so moved by Lee's spontaneous exhortation during a visiting minister's sermon that he ...

click image for close-up Construction of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, shown in this 1804 engraving, was completed in 1805. It replaced the original structure ...

The decision Monday comes years after members of the far-right group vandalized a Black Lives Matter sign in front of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church following a 2020 rally for ...

The massacre shattered the peaceful calm of an evening Bible study and ended the lives of nine people who’d come to Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church to pray. Now a federal jury is ...

PALESTINE, Texas (KLTV) - For the first time in over a decade, restoration of Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church is now underway. Inside of a historic piece of African American history, ...