Adelle M. Banks

The annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting, scheduled for June in Florida, was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. But issues its...

As state governors begin to lift stay at home orders, top officials of seven black Christian denominations have joined civil rights leaders in...

Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and prayed at President Barack Obama’s first...

“What can you do as faith and community leaders?” asked U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams in a videotaped address for the COVID-19 Church Online...

On Friday, the first woman to be ordained and consecrated as a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, Retired Bishop Barbara Harris, died at...

A film paying homage to Mister Rogers is set to release Nov. 22, starring Tom Hanks. The film depicts the friendship that developed between Fred...

Harriet Tubman’s lived religion has been well recorded and used to explain how in 1849 a Maryland 20-something slave (her exact birthdate is not...

Anne Graham Lotz’s journey has been a tough one lately: A year ago, three years after the death of her husband and six months after the funeral of...

Cameron Strang, the founder and CEO of Relevant Media Group, found himself under attack from a host of former employees this week who accused him...

Months before the annual observance of the bombing that rocked a congregation, a community and the nation, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church has been...

A group of dozens of visitors to Historic Jamestowne, the preserved site of the first permanent English settlement in the U.S., listened on the...

Trump administration officials announced a new alliance with U.S. partners focused on religious freedom and new sanctions against foreign military...

Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was detained in Turkey for two years on terrorism and spying charges before being released in October, said he is...

At their annual meeting, Southern Baptists re-elected their president, adopted statements on their views about major cultural issues, and discussed...

Southern Baptists, faced in recent months with hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse in its ranks, have overwhelmingly adopted changes to...

A new Southern Baptist Convention report on sex abuse, filled with the voices of survivors, acknowledges numerous ways the denomination has failed...

Speaking at a black church Sunday (June 9) in a city that is nearly 75% percent African American, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention,...

With its particular focus on China’s oppression of religious and human rights, an independent watchdog group has decried in its annual report the...