In Harlem, the Abyssinian Baptist Church—a Gothic historic megachurch—is a centerpiece for local communities. Rooted in a ...

Meet the Abyssinian cat: the supermodel of the cat kingdom, possessing the spirit of a stand-up comic and the energy of a ...

(RNS) — The introduction to online worship services at Abyssinian Baptist Church still briefly features the church’s previous pastor, two months after a new leader entered the pulpit.

The regal-looking Abyssinian cat – Aby for short – may look like an Egyptian aristocrat and be named after a fallen empire, but their origins are fairly mysterious. While we can’t say for ...

Founded in 1808, Abyssinian Baptist Church is one of the oldest African-American Baptist churches in the United States. Housed in a landmark Gothic- and Tudor-style building in Harlem, Abyssinian ...

(AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File) Al Sharpton speaks during a ceremony in celebration of Roberta Flack’s life at The Abyssinian ...

Target’s chief executive officer is planning to meet this week with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton's civil rights ...

The Rev. Eboni Marshall Turman, a Yale Divinity School professor and former assistant pastor at Abyssinian, was among the candidates interviewed in the search for a successor to longtime senior ...

A group of Ethiopian merchants and free African-Americans established the first Abyssinian Baptist Church on Worth Street in 1808 after refusing to accept segregated services in downtown’s First ...