Black Churches

The former church on North Spring Street in St. Louis has attracted visitors since a 2001 fire left it as a stone shell. The Pulitzer Arts Foundation aims to fix it up but keep its character intact.

“My mom is 92, and I know she’d never thought she’d see a woman preaching at Macedonia,” a member of the church said.

New Northside Missionary Baptist Church — a predominantly black Jennings church — is a welcoming space on the inside. But on the outside, it’s…

The yellow house at 8820 North Broadway in St. Louis looks like most of the others on the block, but the worship music wafting out onto the sidewalk…

A 35-year-old St. Louis man has been arrested in connection with two church arsons that put St. Louis and parts of north St. Louis County on high alert in…

Sunday service was a bit different this week at New Life Missionary Baptist Church in north St. Louis: it was held out on the lawn.That's because the…

Updated 9 a.m., Oct. 22 - Overnight, officials confirmed a seventh church fire at the rectory for the Shrine of St. Joseph in the Columbus Square…

The St. Louis Regional Bomb Unit and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating what they describe as a series of six…

In the weeks following the shooting incident in Charleston where nine black churchgoers were killed, several predominately black churches have succumbed…