HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- Members of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem held their first Sunday service without the longtime pastor, Reverend Dr. Calvin Butts, who died on Friday. New York City ...

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A search committee previously sued for gender discrimination over its hiring process has announced its pick for the next senior pastor of a prominent New York City congregation considered by some to ...

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Over its 215-year history, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City has earned a reputation as the flagship of the Black church in America. Based in Harlem, it became a famous megachurch with ...

Calvin O. Butts III, the senior pastor of New York’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, who followed in the footsteps of prominent Black ministers and paved his own path of leadership in education, ...

A group of congregants at the influential Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem is asking a New York state court to void the election of a new pastor who just took over the historic Black church last ...

A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit brought against Abyssinian Baptist Church by a onetime candidate to be the historic Harlem church’s senior pastor, the sole female ...

Stars and friends including Anna Wintour, Naomi Campbell, Marc Jacobs and Karlie Kloss celebrate the life of late fashion icon André Leon Talley's service on Friday, April 29 at The Abyssinian Baptist ...