It took decades of activism for a change that was "so very healing," said McAvoy, pastor of Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church in Hope, Rhode Island. A member of the Queer Delegate ...

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The votes were part of a series by the United Methodist Church's top legislative ... “It did not happen overnight,” Rhode Island pastor Rev. Effie McAvoy, a clergy delegate to the general ...

PROVIDENCE, R. I. – A Rhode Island man has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he set fire to a North Providence church earlier this year, targeting it because of its mostly Black membership ...

At the age of 10, now 17-year-old Lily DaPonte was introduced to the Mathewson United Methodist Church's Friendship Breakfast. “I was introduced to it by my fifth grade teacher," said DaPonte.

FRANKLIN - Churches in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island are on high alert after federal agents have put out an arson warning to places of worship. This weekend, the Bureau of Alcohol ...

It's the latest project by retired NFL player Tom Clayton and his wife Kelly. The Rhode Island couple specializes in restoring historic distressed properties. Trade group: RI home sales tanked in ...

Federal authorities are warning houses of worship in Rhode Island and Massachusetts to take security precautions after several churches were targeted with suspected arson. The police responded to ...

A Rhode Island man was arrested Thursday and charged with using gasoline to set several fires around the exterior of a predominantly Black church in North Providence early Sunday morning.

A North Providence man was arrested Thursday and charged with setting fire to a pentecostal church in his community ... U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island. Colantonio was charged ...