Category : Religion

Elijah P. Lovejoy, in full Elijah Parish Lovejoy, (born November 9, 1802, Albion, Maine, U.S.—died November 7, 1837, Alton, Illinois), American newspaper editor and martyred...

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, one of the oldest Roman Catholic girls’ schools in the nation, has long celebrated the vision and generosity of its founders: a determined...

Together with interior minister Wilhelm Frick (second from the right) and propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (far right), Catholic bishops Franz Rudolf Bornewasser (Bishop of Trier)...

Over the years, religion has gradually become somewhat of a taboo subject amongst ‘Black’ people. It’s almost as if there exist a silent acknowledgment and...

The son of a merchant and planter with deep roots in coastal Georgia, Charles Colcock Jones, Sr. was born on December 20, 1804, at Liberty...

Charles Colcock Jones’ The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States is an extended exhortation urging white ministers and slaveowners to attend to...

The Bible contains quite a number of broad, vague, and even contradictory statements, so whenever the Bible is used to justify an action, it must...

The Promise of Heaven The most important aspect of Christianity for the enslaved was the promise of heaven — a promise made by plantation owners....

Until June 8, 1978, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) officially barred black men of African descent from its priesthood, a...