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AME Church clergy, staff await possible return of some lost retirement funds (RNS) — A judge has scheduled a June 26 hearing, at which final approval of partial settlements will be considered.
Charleston and religious leaders say the 10th commemoration of the Emanuel AME Church shooting serves as a reminder that there's more work to be done.
The AME Church has been accused of mishandling the retirement funds, leaving many plan participants with about 30 percent of what they had hoped to use for retirement. The denomination accused its ...
The outside of Mother Emanuel AME church church in Charleston, S.C. is seen on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 before a service to honor and remember nine church members on the 10th anniversary of the ...
Ten years ago in Charleston, South Carolina, a white supremacist gunned down nine people at a Bible study inside Mother Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black church in the South. The church's ...
Mother Emanuel AME Church held an Ecumenical Service Tuesday, June 17, in remembrance of the congregation members who were killed in a horrific targeted mass shooting 10 years ago.
Here are events planned to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Charleston Emanuel AME Church shooting. The shooting was on June 17, 2015.
WASHINGTON -- Former President Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas. The former Democratic president's plans ...
Cape May is the birthplace of Jarena Lee, the first Black female preacher in the AME Church and the first Black woman to publish an autobiography in 1838. “[The AME Church] could have sold it for a ...
LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — In the 10 years since the tragic shooting that took nine lives at Mother Emanuel AME Church, organizations across the state have been working to close the Charleston ...
WASHINGTON -- Former president Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas. The ex-president's plans were confirmed by ...
Former President Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas. That's according to a person with knowledge of them but ...