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Archbishop Wilton Gregory becomes the first Black American Cardinal in the Catholic church's history. Archbishop Gregory was born and raised in Chicago and ordained a priest in 1973. A product of the Englewood neighborhood, he grew up in a family that was not Catholic. They converted to Catholicism
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First Female Bishop
The Reverend Barbara C. Harris was elected Sufragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in September, 1988 and was consecrated bishop in February, 1989. She was the first woman, Black or white, to be elected a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
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Nigeria: 115 People Killed By Nigeria's Security Forces in Country's Southeast - Report
[Premium Times] The police said at least 21 personnel were killed in three months in Imo State.
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Nigeria's Buhari visits restive southeast after separatist's arrest | Africanews
The visit to Imo State came two months after a southeast Biafra separatist leader Nnamndi Kanu was captured overseas and brought back to Nigeria to face trial.
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Anglican Bishop of Kingston Robert Thompson retires
Anglican Bishop of Kingston, the Rt Reverend Dr Robert Thompson, has retired after almost a half-century working for the Christian Church. The clergyman today laid down his pastoral staff on the altar of the Kingston Parish Church after...
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First archdiocesan Juneteenth celebration a reminder to ‘hold onto the good’
… struggle for justice for the African-American community. In his homily, Fr … , poetry readings, food and local African-American-owned businesses selling jewelry and …
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Uganda: Council of Faithful Asks Govt to Give Lwanga State Funeral
[Monitor] The Inter-religious Council of Uganda has asked the government to accord the late Archbishop of the Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga, a State burial.
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Johnson, Francis Hall (1888-1970)
Composer and musician Hall Johnson was born in Athens, Georgia in 1888 to Alice Virginia Sanson Johnson and William Decker Johnson, a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His musical talent was apparent from childhood when he studied piano with his older sister, Mary, and taught
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McConnell Blocks Resolution Blasting Trump's Treatment Of Protesters
OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a resolution seeking to condemn Donald Trump after federal officers used tear gas and rubber bullets against peaceful protesters in order to clear Lafayette Square, near the White
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Nigeria: 10 Killed in Renewed Benue, Ebonyi Communal Crisis
[Daily Trust] At least 10 people have been reported killed in a renewed communal crisis between natives of Ezza and Effium in border communities of Ado Local Government Area of Benue State and Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
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Curfew in DR Congo city after weekend bombs | News24
The city of Beni woke up to a curfew on Monday after three bombs rocked the conflict-plagued east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with authorities warning they had reports more attacks were being planned.
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Tanzania: Magufuli - Our Economy Comes First in COVID-19 Fight
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Holly, James Theodore (1829-1911)
James Theodore Holly emigrationist, missionary, and bishop, was born in Washington, D.C on October 3, 1829. At age fourteen his family relocated to Brooklyn, New York. His father taught him the shoemaking trade. Then in 1848 he began working as an abolitionist with Lewis Tappan, one of the
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1829
Nigeria: Taraba Massacre, Arson - 'Friends Turned Their Guns On us, Wiped Out Our Kinsmen'
All roads were deserted with few vehicles plying the Bali -Takum highway.The once peaceful atmosphere has been polluted by bloody conflict in recent weeks with influx of rural dwellers into Bali, headquarters of Bali Local Government Area (LGA) of Taraba
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Philip Anyolo replaces Cardinal Njue as Nairobi Archbishop
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Nigeria: Federal Govt Releases Details of Programme to Employ 774,000 Nigerians
Sometime in October, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, approved a Pilot Special Public Works Programme in the Rural
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St. Augustine Catholic Church, New Orleans, Louisiana (1841- )
St. Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans was the first black church in Louisiana and the first black Catholic church in the United States. In the 1830s a group of free African-American New Orleanians began organizing to create a Catholic church in Tremé, a historically black and multicultural
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9
1842
DC Episcopal bishop: ‘I am outraged’ by Trump church visit
The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington sharply criticized President Donald Trump on Monday for staging a visit to the historic St. John’s Church across from the White House, where he held up a Bible after authorities had cleared the area of peaceful
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The Catholic Church in Burundi on Tuesday evening denounced “many irregularities” that affected the transparency and fairness of the May 20 general elections which saw the victory, contested by the opposition, of the candidate of the ruling party General Evariste
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Absalom Jones ordained a deacon
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Harris, Barbara C. (1930- )
Religious leader Barbara Clementine Harris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Walter and Beatrice (Price) Harris on June 12, 1930. After graduating from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism, she joined Joseph V. Baker Associates, Inc., a black-owned public relations
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Diocese of Atlanta reimagines policing while combating COVID-19 | Atlanta Daily World
Bishops of the Episcopal Church will discuss how they will work to fight the two major pandemics facing America during two events hosted by the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing. The first pandemic, systemic racism, has been with us for centuries. The other, COVID-19, is a recent
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Edward Thomas Demby
Edward Thomas Demby elected suffragan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Arkansas.
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Tourists land in Tanzania as hotels, firms and schools resume
Plane loads of tourists aboard Ethiopian, KLM and Turkish airlines are expected to land in Tanzania in the next one week, marking a critical milestone in the on-going re-opening of the country’s economy following nearly two months of
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Hattie B. Cooper Community Center
The Hattie B. Cooper Community Center, started in the early 1920s by Union Methodist Church (now Union United Methodist Church) as a settlement house, is still 'in business.' Described in church conference minutes of 1922 as 'a bee-hive of helpful activities among colored people of the South
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Richard Allen named 1st Bishop of AME church
By 1816 there were several African Methodist Churches around the country and that year they met to form the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church. On April 11, 1816 Richard Allen was name the first bishop of this church.
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A group of 16 crew members of a Kenyan-flagged fishing vessel christened Ra-Horakhty is stranded at the port of Mombasa.
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Nigeria: Bandits Kill Catholic Priest, Abduct Another in Nigeria
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