COGIC
Church of God in Christ congregations given $100,000 by pandemic support campaign
By Adelle M. Banks — May 27, 2022
(RNS) — ‘Surprisingly, the generosity has not stopped and churches continued to give,’ said organizer Justin Giboney.
George O. Wood, dead at 80, remembered as ‘door-opener’ in leadership of AG
By Erica Ramirez — January 16, 2022
(RNS) — The longtime general superintendent of the Assembles of God saw the Pentecostal denomination to its highest levels of membership and promoted the leadership of women and minorities.
Church of God in Christ names Detroit’s Bishop J. Drew Sheard new presiding bishop
By Adelle M. Banks — March 22, 2021
(RNS) — The husband of gospel singer Karen Clark Sheard of The Clark Sisters was elected on Saturday by the COGIC General Assembly, the denomination announced.
As King anniversary nears, 3 Memphis sites key to his legacy draw visitors
By Adelle M. Banks — March 29, 2018
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS) — Two of the three sites are houses of worship.
Faith leaders mark 50th anniversary of Memphis sanitation workers’ deaths
By Adelle M. Banks — February 1, 2018
(RNS) — It was the labor action over harsh working conditions triggered by the deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker that prompted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to travel to Memphis, Tenn., where he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
Denzel Washington preaches gratitude to church members at Pentecostal convention
By Jim Gallagher — November 9, 2015
ST. LOUIS -- “It is impossible to be grateful and hateful at the same time,” the pastor's son told hundreds of members of the Church of God in Christ. “We have to have an attitude of gratitude.”
The gospel roots of the ‘Godmother of rock ‘n’ roll’
By Daniel Burke — February 19, 2013
(RNS) Before Elvis and Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash. Before Aretha and Whitney and Beyonce. Before the blues met gospel and conceived rock 'n’ roll, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
COGIC Presiding Bishop Charles Blake re-elected for another four years
By Kevin Eckstrom — November 16, 2012
(RNS) The Church of God in Christ has re-elected Presiding Bishop Charles Blake to serve a second four-year term as head of the nation's largest Pentecostal denomination. By Kevin Eckstrom.
COGIC reinstates bishop after criminal charges dropped
By Tracy Gordon — March 7, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The Church of God in Christ has lifted the suspension of a New Orleans bishop after a judge ruled that the charges of forcible rape, sexual battery and indecent behavior brought against him were too old to prosecute. By Bruce Nolan.
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