On May 2, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking the culmination of years ...
This is an MLK weekend more than 11,000 families in St. Louis City and County won’t soon forget as the United Church of Christ blessed them with a cure for their medical debt. It took $100,000 — UCC ...
ROCHESTER — City resident Jan Whitten will soon become New Hampshire's only deaconess for the United Methodist Church, after she is commissioned in Tampa, Fla. this Sunday, April 29. Whitten, who has ...
The unordained "deaconess" idea is a train wreck waiting to happen. First floated by retired German Cardinal Walter Kasper, it's been picked up by nearly retired Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of ...
Services will be on Friday for Susie M. Towns, a former Fort Lauderdale cafe operator who served many years as a deaconess at the Mount Olivet Seventh-day Adventist Church. Mrs. Towns died at the Fort ...
The expectations of widows in the New Testament Church are in most respects the same as those of the later Byzantine order of deaconesses: [A woman among the widows] trusts in God, and continues in ...
Jan. 25, 1935 – Oct. 28, 2024Deaconess Barbara Jean Billups, a pillar of Friendship Baptist Church and a member for more than 80 years, died Oct. 28 at the home of her daughter Patricia Billups in ...
Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...
More than 25 years before the end of slavery in this country, Baltimore was already in the midst of organizing its first African-American Baptist church.Download the WBAL appOn Thursday, the First ...
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