It wasn’t referred to as a funeral, but a “Service of Triumph” as family, friends, congregants and distinguished leaders from the AME Zion Church said “see you next time” to the Rev. Dr. Kathryn ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- For decades, Sundays at Sandy Ground have always been respectfully reserved for family and for faith. Gathering in a small clapboard church on Bloomingdale Rd., dressed in ...

Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church has been serving the City of Poughkeepsie for 180 years, the oldest predominately African-American church in the city. The church has been the home to individuals, ...

(RNS) — Among those elected during the meeting was Bishop Melanie Miller, the second and only living woman bishop in the historically Black denomination. (RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Zion ...

ST. PAUL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) ZION CHURCH was the first church of the AME Zion denomination established in Cleveland in 1912. As large numbers of AFRICAN-AMERICAN migrants made their way ...

The 136th church anniversary will be celebrated at Third Creek AME Zion Church, 415 E. Main St. in Cleveland, during a parking lot service at 1 p.m. today. The special guest preacher will be the Rev.

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. The Board of ...

SOUTHPORT -- St. James AME Zion Church will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the church’s 1866 founding on Sunday. It was the town's first black church and was originally named the Methodist ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Shiloh AME Zion Church, West Brighton, celebrated another milestone on Saturday, marking 119 years of serving the community. Parishioners joined with friends and family at Z-Two ...