Shuttlesworth, as pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Collegeville from 1956-61, led early efforts at desegregation in Birmingham. Shuttlesworth, Old Sardis Pastor Robert Alford and other ministers ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - The Rev. Samuel P. Pettagrue Jr., who was pastor of Sardis Baptist Church in Birmingham from 1971-2006 and was convicted in 2009 for his role in a kickback scheme with a ...

Sardis Church in Hartford will keep its doors open despite being named by the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United ...

Birmingham, Alabama -- The Rev. Samuel Pettagrue, pastor of the 3,000-member Sardis Baptist Church, and a group of 35 volunteers are in the African nation of Ghana this week, distributing medicine ...

The Old Sardis Baptist Church was awarded $192,000 to preserve the building and part of civil rights history. The money was given by The Alabama Historical Commission.

There will be a grand celebration beginning at 11 this morning at New Sardis Baptist Church’s annual African-American History Celebration. The church at 7739 E. Holmes Road itself is an ...