HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts, the longtime politically and socially active pastor of Harlem's historic Abyssinian Baptist Church has died, the church announced Friday. The church ...

NEW YORK — Controversy continues over the recent appointment of a new senior pastor at Harlem's historic Abyssinian Baptist Church. The search had been ongoing since the late Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts III ...

The Rev. Calvin Butts, the revered senior pastor at Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church and a compelling New York voice across three decades, died Friday, the church announced. Butts, 73, was an ...

More than a hundred people filled a stretch of West 138th Street in Harlem Sunday for a block party to celebrate the opening of Abyssinian Baptist Church’s new Dr. Calvin O. Butts III Educational and ...

'The process that I witnessed unfold effectively pushed aside other highly qualified candidates.' Typically, church drama doesn’t reach the courts, but a group of congregants at Harlem’s influential ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — More than two dozen members of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, dressed as if for a Sunday service, filled a lower Manhattan courtroom Thursday morning (July 17) to attend the ...

The Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem has filed a motion through its attorneys to dismiss a lawsuit filed in October by four current and/or former church members who are seeking to overturn the ...

Kevin Johnson served as an assistant pastor under Calvin O. Butts before being named. The historic New York Abyssinian Baptist Church has finally elected its new senior pastor following the extensive ...

NEW YORK-- A prominent Black church in Manhattan is being sued for gender bias by a woman who sought to be its senior pastor. A new lawsuit in federal court accuses Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem ...

Behind the opaque process that just selected the next pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church. By Ginia Bellafante Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and one of its most well-known members have been ...