Click to open image viewer. This image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, former Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, on a trip to Charleston, South Carolina, and is included in a ...

St. Patrick Church, the last remaining Black Catholic parish in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, has received a $500,000 matching grant to preserve its historic 19th-century building. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Parishoners at the historic black Emanuel church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Sunday grieved this weekend's Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and recalled a 2015 mass ...

(RNS) — In late April of 2015, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, senior pastor of Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, opened a “Requiem for Racism” program by ...

For one Sunday morning, worshippers at First Scots Church in downtown Charleston traded modern traditions for those of the Revolutionary War era. As part of Sou ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The slayings of nine people in Charleston wrote a grim new chapter into the history of one of the oldest black churches in the South. Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church ...

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, is planning to open a memorial honoring its members who were murdered during a Bible study by an avowed white supremacist in ...

CHARLESTON – The peninsula’s historically Black Episcopal churches worshipped together for the first time on the Sunday after Donald Trump was elected to a second presidential term. The pushback has ...

Ten years after a white supremacist killed nine parishioners of Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the community is still coping with the loss and ...