This story appeared in The Washington Post on September 8, 2022. A group of New York clergy took more than $1 million from a real estate developer who sought to turn distressed Black churches into lucrative properties, according to settlements with the state’s attorney general. Link to the findings of the Office of the Attorney …
N.Y. clergy to repay $800K in kickbacks from sale of Black churches. Read More »
This story appeared on 23ABCNEWS on November 23, 2022. DELANO, Calif. (KERO) — New Allen Chapel AME Church, first vandalized in July, and then again in September, was hit a third time on Friday night, according to Reverend Bill Hence, Jr. with racial slurs all over the church’s walls and windows. “It happened late Friday …
August 31, 2022 Last week, a report from the Attorney General of the State of New York regarding its investigation of a real estate developer and specific real estate transactions involving five New York AME churches, and two senior AME clergy persons with oversight and supervisory authority over the five AME Churches was made public. …
51 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; 2 look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one man, and I blessed him and made him many. 3 The Lord will surely …
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the …
46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to …
44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. 47 “If anyone …
17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but …
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