First Baptist Church was founded in 1776 by free and enslaved Black people in Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. Members secretly gathered under trees at a plantation to engage in song ...

According to 2016 estimates, Vietnam has some 95.54 million people, 6.6 percent of them are Christians. According to Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam, there were 6,745,823 Catholics in the ...

In Vietnam, the US dropped 4.6 million tons of bombs, including during harsh, indiscriminate carpet-bombing campaigns such as Operation Rolling Thunder (1965–1968) and Operation Linebacker (1972).

The Church had been seen as a privileged institution under both French colonial rule and the South Vietnamese regime led by a Catholic president, Ngo Dinh Diem, who was assassinated in a 1963 coup.

Planning and Zoning commissioners have given their blessing to a preliminary plat for the new location for Colonial Bible Church. The item now goes to City Council for final approval. Currently ...

Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists conducted excavations from 2020-2024 that uncovered 62 burials at the original First Baptist church site. They are now marked with individual hexagonal grave ...

From left, Reginald F. Davis, pastor of First Baptist Church, Connie Matthews Harshaw, a member of First Baptist, and Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's director of archaeology, stand at the brick ...

Thursday's Juneteenth ceremony was at Colonial Williamsburg, a museum that owns the land where the church stood. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 86°F. Sunday, July 6th 2025 ...

Excavation of graves begins at site of Colonial-era Black church. ... The First Baptist Church was formed in 1776 by free and enslaved Black people in Williamsburg, the colonial capital of Virginia.

Vietnam celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu that ended French colonial occupation with a parade in a stadium in Dien Bien Phu, today home to 80,000 people.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation first began archaeological work on the First Baptist Church project in 2020. In the last three years, archaeologists have located the church’s original ...