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    The black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations...
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  • Mormonism's largest denomination – the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) – barred Black women and men from participating in the...
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  • these include: The Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations, is the oldest known Black Hebrew group. The Church of God and Saints...
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  • priesthood policies in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) prohibited both Black women and Black men from temple ordinances and...
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    The Black Church (Romanian: Biserica Neagră, German: Die Schwarze Kirche, Hungarian: Fekete templom), stands in the city of Brașov in south-eastern Transylvania...
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    Sam Black Church, known today as Sam Black United Methodist Church, is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style church located at Sam Black Church near the unincorporated...
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    The Charleston church shooting, also known as the Charleston church massacre, was an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime that occurred on June 17,...
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    independent black denomination in the nation. Mother Emanuel has one of the oldest black congregations south of Baltimore (black Baptist churches were founded...
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  • The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist Black church. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology and...
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    foundation, Black people have been members, however the church placed restrictions on proselytization efforts among Black people. Before 1978, Black membership...
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  • and a wave of church burnings in Norway. The scene had an ethos and the core members referred to themselves as "The Black Circle" or "Black Metal Inner...
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  • just "historically" black, they were entirely black for as long as they existed. Notes Part of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Part of the National...
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  • years, continuing to form the basis of Black church worship even today. It has also come to be used in churches of various other cultural traditions (especially...
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    mixed-race converts in Brazil. Many Black church members think that giving an apology would be a "detriment" to church work and a catalyst for further racial...
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    and curses off church members. The removal of evil spirits from church members in Black Pentecostal churches involves prayer, playing Black gospel music...
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  • songs sung in various church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals (which shaped much of traditional Black gospel). Black Gospel music has been...
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    evidence of organized religion among black people in the Thirteen Colonies. The Methodist and Baptist churches became much more active in the 1780s....
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    Royal Acadian School and the African Baptist Church in Halifax, founded in 1832, opened opportunities for Black Canadians. During the years before the American...
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  • Black Church is the body of Christian congregations and denominations that minister predominantly or exclusively to African Americans. Black church may...
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  • movement Black church Black Consciousness Movement – South African anti-apartheid movement, 1960s Black Lives Matter Black power Black separatism Black supremacy...
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  • Fellowship of Black Pentecostal Churches and gained COGIC membership in the Congress of National Black Churches as well, a national caucus of Black church denominations...
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  • African American church, also known as the Black Church, is a central part of mainstream African American culture. The Black Church is a combination of...
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    historically Black churches. The term Black church refers to churches which minister to predominantly African American congregations. Black congregations...
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    often appears as a black dog but is known to take the form of other animals. In modern times, when black dogs are kept as pets in churches and their attached...
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    Black Catholicism or African-American Catholicism comprises the African-American people, beliefs, and practices in the Catholic Church. There are currently...
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  • Cathedral (Armenia's mother church) as the oldest cathedral. St. Thaddeus Monastery or Qara Kelisa (meaning 'black church') in Chaldoran County, Iran...
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    away from the Methodist Church and in 1815 founded the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. After the Civil War, Black Baptists desiring to practice...
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  • black churches. As a result, Congress passed the Church Arson Prevention Act in 1996. In addition, President Bill Clinton formed the National Church Arson...
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    synchronized with Christianity. Scholars call the practice of Hoodoo in Black churches as the invisible institution, because enslaved people concealed their...
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  • originated among African-American seminarians and scholars, and in some black churches in the United States and later in other parts of the world. It contextualizes...
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