Alabama churches part of city's 200-year history of slavery, civil rights
by Adelle M. Banks, Religion News ServiceAs the nation marks the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of Africans in Virginia — and Alabama has its bicentennial — a walk through Montgomery's streets reveals the legacy of slavery in America.

From New York to Alabama, blacks worshiped in own spaces before slavery's end
by Adelle M. Banks, Religion News ServiceA who's who of black history figures worshiped and spoke at Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — including abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth — when it was at earlier locations after its founding in 1796 or at its current neo-Gothic site on 137th Street in Harlem.

Protestant-only ministry changes course, opens its doors to Catholics
by Yonat Shimron, Religion News ServiceThe change marked a 180-degree turn for a ministry founded on fundamentalist Protestantism ministry founded on fundamentalist Protestantism that has separated Catholics and Protestants in this region of the South for generations.

Your thoughts on despair, abortion laws, married priests and more
by NCR StaffYour thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of June 2019. 

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