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St. Elizabeth’s Jazz & Food Festival this Saturday

St. Elizabeth Catholic Church is holding its 7th Annual Jazz & Food Festival from noon to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, on the grounds of the church at 2nd Avenue and Victor Street in Highland Park.

Center awaits end of bankruptcy

The 300-member Richmond Christian Center is poised to leave bankruptcy after nearly two years, with the finances of the South Side church restored.

Bobbi Kristina dies after 6 months in coma

An initial autopsy on Bobbi Kristina Brown on Monday found no significant injuries and no obvious underlying cause of death for the daughter of the late entertainer Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown.

Church opens in former 12-step meeting place

A new church has opened at the former site of a popular 12-step meeting place for recovering alcoholics and addicts on South Side.

Communion wine ban in prisons rejected

Can prisons ban inmates from drinking communion wine at religious services behind bars? The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says no.

Getting praise, worship on at Gospel Music Fest

At age 80, gospel music icon Dorothy Norwood still can spiritually move an audience. Known as “Gospel’s greatest storyteller,” she demonstrated her star power again Sunday evening as the headliner before an overflow audience at Dogwood Dell at the 6th …

Mildred Fountain Weekes, 93, former teacher

Richmond native Mildred Elizabeth Fountain Weekes was a renaissance woman.

Vacation Bible School to go to Washington

New Life Deliverance Tabernacle on South Side is holding its Vacation Bible School from Tuesday, July 21, through Friday, July 24, the church has announced.

Gospel Explosion Aug.1 at South Side church

The Rev. Luther Barnes is headlining the “Gospel Explosion” concert at Second Baptist Church on South Side at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, the church has announced.

Jesus has left the building

This mural of Jesus on the side of the former Richmond Outreach Center at 6255 Old Warwick Road was photographed in 2005. Today, the building has been whitewashed, awaiting a new mural as workers transform the former South Side church …

Kind acts commemorate pastor’s 10th anniversary

“Don’t Go to Church, Be the Church.” That was the theme of a day of community service by members at Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Jackson Ward on July 5.

Good Samaritan Ministries opens summer camp

Pastor Michael D. McClary has spent nearly 30 years helping alcoholics and drug users in Richmond follow the Christian road to recovery that transformed him from an addict to a minister. The 65-year-old minister has undertaken the effort as the …

In the spirit

Thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses attend the first of the annual district conventions last Saturday at the Richmond Coliseum in Downtown. More than 20 people were baptized during the convention, which has the theme “Imitate Jesus!”

In some churches, guns are the answer to a prayer

The Sunday service was winding down, but before it ended, Bishop Ira Combs led the congregation of 300 at the Greater Bible Way Temple in prayer. The violence that killed nine people in a Charleston, S.C., church could not happen …

Musical homegoing for Maggie Ingram

The Ingramettes delivered a powerful farewell to Mother Maggie Ingram at her homegoing service Thursday, July 2, at Saint Paul’s Baptist Church in Henrico County.