RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – With his booming voice and high-voltage charisma capable of working crowds of hundreds into a lather, Marcos Gladstone has all the trappings of a successful preacher. But ...

Landisville's Wayne Gray was born a full-gospel Pentecostal south of the border and early on became an enthusiastic fan of the late Mahalia Jackson, Dottie Rambo, Vestal Goodman and other great bygone ...

WASHINGTON _ Bishop Carlton Pearson, a pastor who embraces a controversial “gospel of inclusion,” faced his critics Thursday (March 20) in a doctrinal forum of fellow black Pentecostal bishops.

OCALA — They came from nearby wooded areas, homeless shelters and from their homes to Howard Academy to get a taste of a home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner. Saturday was the third annual Community Day ...

A growing brand of new Pentecostal churches in southern Africa is known to emphasise the prosperity gospel, deliverance, miracles and healing.Miracles, including people apparently rising from the dead ...

OCALA - The late Bernard Tuggerson Sr. and his wife the Rev. Lillie Tuggerson saw their church through difficult times in the 1980s and early '90s, when it was located in what she described as a drug ...

OCEANSIDE — Friend and church colleague Fagatua Tili remembersLiatama Vaeao delivering words of faith at the 1st Samoan FullGospel Pentecostal Church of Vista. Vaeao, who died July 7 at age 61, was ...

A Compton court judge has ruled that a dispute among the South Bay’s tight-knit Samoan Pentecostal community is, at its core, a battle over ordinary property rights rather than a divine matter exempt ...

SEOUL, South Korea — The 26 th Pentecostal World Conference (PWC) convenes Wednesday, October 12 th, in Seoul, Korea, at the Yoido Full Gospel Church, the world’s largest Spirit-empowered congregation ...

Every Black History Month, there is a tribute to the Black Church and its gospel music. The contribution of LGBTQ+ singers to the canon of gospel music, however, is never front and center in the ...