Philadelphia police are investigating vandalism at one of the city s oldest Black churches. Officers were called to Mother Bethel AME Church Monday morning after a front door window and three
The historic congregation of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will receive $90,000 in grant funding to help with its building preservation.
Here are eight congregations, established in different times, place, and belonging to different denominations, that hold great historical significance for a host of reasons, including influence over the broader culture, ties to prominent people, or tragic events.
that s why it s so critical. joy, i want you to know, i announced my candidacy yesterday. as you said, this is my first national interview. but the first thing i did today was take our campaign bus down to mother bethel in the city of philadelphia. the oldest ame church in the nation, a church where voting rights and efforts to expand civil rights happened in the walls of that church and inside with the leaders there. great leaders came and preached and made a change. and i thought it was critically important that we go and remind ourselves of the history of the progress we made and make and make darn clear here in pennsylvania, the birthplace of our democracy, that we will not go back. so i ve made democracy and voting rights the central issue in my campaign for pennsylvania governor. right now your state senate is trying to obtain the personal information of every voter in the state. i m assuming that they have much