Never before has a U.S. postage stamp celebrated anything Hindu. But coming soon to a post office near you: A stamp marking the Hindu holiday of Diwali. The new Forever stamp is scheduled to be featured at a first-day-of-issue dedication …

Top-notch preaching most attracts people looking for a new place to pray. That’s the conclusion of a new Pew Research Center study released Tuesday that asked 5,000 people about their search for a new church or other house of worship.

Raymond D. Patterson received a second chance and made the most of it. After pleading guilty to felony misuse of public funds as a state official in the early 1990s, Mr. Patterson rebounded to become a key figure in staging …

George E. Curry, a pioneering journalist and publisher whose civil rights advocacy helped free a Henrico County woman from federal prison while calling national attention to the disparity in federal drug sentences for African-Americans, died Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, at …

Richmond has long been home to ministers and religious leaders who combine their roles in the church with civic and social action.

Ryland Restee Roane Jr. was a pioneer in HIV/AIDS education in Central Virginia. After being diagnosed with HIV in 1987, the Richmond native devoted his life to providing information and assisting others through his work for the Richmond and state …

The Richmond Christian Center, is living up to its name. After nearly four decades as an independent church, RCC’s congregation has begun sharing its South Side property with four other nondenominational churches.

Following through on a pledge he made to a group of nuns last May, Pope Francis has established a special commission to study whether the Roman Catholic Church should take the historic step of ordaining women as deacons.

Vashti Patricia Forbes-Kelly helped get things done with little recognition. Before she retired in 2000 after 31 years, principals at Armstrong High School and Franklin Military Academy counted on her as a school secretary to keep things humming. Students knew …

Larry Maurice Walker Sr. combined two passions — history and sports — as a teacher and coach for Richmond Public Schools.

Hall Davis, a funeral director from Baton Rouge, La., described burying a young man who was killed during an attempted robbery of a drug dealer.

Bishop Sharma D. Lewis, the first African-American woman to be elected a bishop in the United Methodist Church’s Southeastern Jurisdiction, will lead the United Methodist Church’s Virginia Conference for the next four years.

When Donald Trump disparaged the parents of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, he didn’t just pick a fight with the Khans. He now faces the ire of hundreds of Muslim American women.

More than 1,200 funeral directors, morticians and embalmers are expected to attend the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association Inc.’s 79th Annual Convention and Exposition that starts Saturday in Richmond.

Tommy Edwards, the late R&B vocalist best known for his hit song, “It’s All in the Game,” is buried there. So are the late state Sen. Benjamin J. Lambert III and his brother, the late Richmond attorney Leonard Lambert, as …