On a bitterly cold day afternoon last month, Patti LaBelle walks gingerly down Mother Bethel AME Church’s center aisle, her ...

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church has stood at 6th and Lombard Streets for more than 230 years.It is the oldest parcel of land continuously owned by African Americans in the United ...

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia is playing a pivotal part in the celebrations of America's ...

Organizers see the Mother Bethel AME Church “Firstival” as a chance to amplify African American history while it’s being erased in other parts of Philadelphia and the U.S.

Mark Tyler, historiographer and executive director of research and scholarship of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, ...

(RNS) — In early November, the Rev. Carolyn Cavaness was already bracing for a big task — preaching the closing sermon at the fall convocation of the First Episcopal District of the African Methodist ...

Philadelphia’s Mother Bethel AME Church is one of five African American churches chosen to receive a $1 million grant from the African American Cultural and Heritage Action Fund. The church’s pastor, ...