The choirs and singers of Faith Hope and Love Church, Calvary Community Church and other churches of the African American ...

African American Christians reflect on Rebecca Protten, Vernon Johns and other thinkers who influenced their faith.

WASHINGTON (RNS) —The interplay between song and sermon — and the importance of both in Black churches — is the focus of a new docuseries created by scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. “Gospel” premieres on ...

The African American Voices Gospel Choir provides a space for students to come together to worship through song, dance, service and miming. The traditional gospel choir is a student organization that ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A leading African archbishop has said that an historical tendency to regard Christianity as the “white man’s God,” and the current rise of a “prosperity Gospel” conflating ...

For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it laid the foundation for spirituals and gospel songs.

The “Black Church in Detroit” explores the history and influence of Black religious music. For Black Music Month, host Stephen Henderson talks with Rev. Larry Simmons of Baber Memorial AME Church and ...

When participants gather in Rome at this fall’s Synod on Synodality to reflect how the global Catholic Church can better communicate the saving love of Jesus for all humanity, a vast continental ...

Boni Maleke shares her heartfelt journey of faith and gratitude through her new gospel EP ‘Umhlengi Wami’, aiming to inspire ...

“Are you a Christian?” a local gentleman had enthusiastically asked, as I was in the midst of a hiking excursion. “Yes,” I answered, nodding my sweat-soaked head. He smiled and shook my hand, ...

SEOUL, Korea — Evangelicalism is growing around the world, but nowhere more so than in Africa, where the increase has been “explosive,” says researcher Jason Mandryk. By contrast, growth in Western ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony ...