(RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Church gathered in Columbus, Ohio, for its quadrennial meeting, consecrated six new bishops on Wednesday (Aug. 28) and voted to continue its ban on same-sex ...

The Rev. Julius H. McAllister Jr., senior pastor of Bethel AME Church in Tallahassee, was confirmed as the 144 th elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Monday. The selection was ...

Durrell Cooper, chairman of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, places a Pendleton prayer blanket around African Methodist Episcopal Bishop Silvester Scott Beaman, at Beaman's investiture ceremony as ...

Today's generation of African-Americans needs to return to religion, and black churches should work together to reach them, said Bishop John R. Bryant, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Bishop Frederick Calhoun James, the world’s oldest Methodist Bishop, died at the age of 102 years old, according to the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church. Born in ...

A former bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme using church properties throughout California to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in ...

SOUTH CAROLINA (WCIV) — South Carolina native Frederick Calhoun James, the oldest Methodist bishop in the world, has passed away at the age of 102. James' death was announced by the Seventh Episcopal ...

(RNS) — ‘God can see what you can’t see,’ Byfield preached in a sermon at the African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference in August. (RNS) — Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield, a leader of the ...

(RNS) — In a joint address, AME bishops called for the creation of ‘accountability measures for every elected and appointed leader within our church.’ (RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Church, ...