MEMPHIS, Tenn. ( WREG) – The story of Robert R. Church is an inspiration: Born into slavery, he died as the first ...

A church in the posh New England enclave of Nantucket called off its 4th of July reading of America's founding documents, ...

Pope Leo Seeks Forgiveness for Catholic Church’s Involvement in the Slave Trade ...

In Paragraph 176 of his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo XIV issues a historic apology for the Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to ...

The Longmeadow community has memorialized the lives of two people who spent parts of the 1700s enslaved in the town with ...

Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical Monday, outlining his priorities in leading the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. While the focus of “Magnificent Humanity” was heavily on his concerns about AI ...

In a key passage of his, Leo said the Church had taken centuries to fully recognise "the ​scourge of slavery" as incompatible with human dignity, calling the legacy "a wound in Christian ​memory." ...

Pope Leo isn’t the first leader of the Catholic Church to acknowledge chattel slavery’s dark past, but the Chicago-born pope ...

The pope warns against the “idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak“ and “the pretense that a single language—even a digital one—can translate everything.” ...

But no other mainstream Protestant religion has embraced LGBTQ+ identity like the Quakers, known officially as the Religious ...

Known as the semiquincentennial, the celebration includes fireworks, walking tours, block parties and a slew of Liberty Bell replicas to honor the city's past. But the Philadelphia of 1776 was much ...