Workers shutter the front door of Harlem Baptist Church on Sept. 20, 2021 shortly after a fire destroyed part of the building. Trustees of the building on the northern banks of the Missouri River ...

The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, who welcomed generations of worshippers as well as political leaders from across the nation and around the world at Harlem's landmark Abyssinian Baptist Church, died ...

(RNS) — The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, the senior pastor of New York’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, who followed in the footsteps of prominent Black ministers and paved his own path of ...

Federal authorities said Monday that the fire at the Harlem Baptist Church was “intentionally set” but they don’t believe it was a hate crime. Across the charred pile of rubble from the roof, beyond ...

The decision settled a yearlong legal battle between the congregation and church members who opposed the Rev. Kevin Johnson’s ...

The Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem has filed a motion through its attorneys to dismiss a lawsuit filed in October by four current and/or former church members who are seeking to overturn the ...

Federal and local fire investigators suspect arson is the cause of a fire over the weekend at a historic Harlem Baptist Church in Kansas City, North, a spokesman with the Kansas City office of the ...

A Harlem church standing on unsteady financial ground is asking the state to greenlight redevelopment plans that would allow the 50-year-old house of worship to remain open alongside more than ...

The Rev. Calvin Butts, the revered senior pastor at Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church and a compelling New York voice across three decades, died Friday, the church announced. Butts, 73, was an ...