Native American and other religious leaders called the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision on Sunday to deny an easement for the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline an answer to prayer.

Science and education professionals are increasingly alarmed about the impact President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks — many of them evangelical Christians — could have on science standards in public schools.

Community economic development. That will be the focus of a dinner program that the nonprofit Faith Leaders Moving Forward will host 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at Sixth Baptist Church, 400 S. Addison St. near Byrd Park, it has been …

Volunteers once again are being recruited to continue the cleanup of historic but overgrown Evergreen Cemetery on the border between Richmond and Henrico County.

A festive Thanksgiving meal that everyone can enjoy — that’s what a community-spirited group will be offering in Richmond on “Turkey Day.”

Gwen Ifill, a preacher’s kid who grew up in New York public housing to embark on a nearly four-decade journalism career and became the gold standard of Washington political reporting, died Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, after a yearlong battle with …

The Richmond Christian Center in South Side will be the host site for a pre-Thanksgiving feast for the less fortunate. The event, called “A Thanksgiving Meal,” will be held noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, in the fellowship hall …

Less than a day after the man she spiritually mentored won the presidential election, the pastor who has been called “Donald Trump’s God whisperer” preached a black church revival in North Carolina’s most pro-Hillary Clinton county. The Rev. Paula White …

Back when so many thought Hillary Clinton would be the next president, two dozen African-American leaders wrote to the Democratic nominee asking her to explain her policies related to the poor and the police.

Refuge Temple Assembly of Yahweh Yahoshua the Messiah is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its pastor, Bishop Milton J. Hunt.

Trials in two South Carolina shootings that rocked the country last year and raised questions about race in America started last week, putting the city of Charleston on edge as the community awaits the testimony and jury decisions.

Two days after a black Mississippi church was torched and marked with “Vote Trump” graffiti, more than $180,000 has been raised to repair it.

The City Council in the nation’s capital has overwhelmingly voted for a bill that would allow terminally ill people a medically assisted death.

The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis has elected the first black, female diocesan bishop in the history of the Episcopal Church.

Islam prohibits the depiction of God or prophets, and some Muslims believe drawing any animate being is also forbidden. Certainly no such images appear in the Quran, its central holy book.