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(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A scene from a cartoon released by the church to teach children about the faith’s history of polygamy shows church founder Joseph Smith praying.
Archaeologists in Williamsburg, Virginia, recently started excavating three burials at the original site of First Baptist Church, one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, launching a ...
Swarns' new book — The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church — expands on that article.It tells the story of the Church's history of enslavement in ...
According to past StarNews reporting, the Church of the Good Shepherd grew out of St. James House, a charity formed in 1873 to assist women and children who had become widows and orphans after the ...