A young girl guards a pile of Bibles outside Pentecostal Assemblies of God at Kwa Nduma slums in Langata which sits at the edge of Nairobi dam in a picture taken on May 05, 2024. [File, Standard] For ...

Why did King James ban the Ethiopian Bible? What’s inside Africa’s oldest and most complete biblical text that the king didn’t want you to read? In this video, we uncover the shocking truth behind one ...

A new book is addressing the age old question about whether people of African descent were present in biblical history. “The Bible is Black History” explores DNA evidence and the work of historians ...

For generations, family Bibles held information on the important occurrences that took place in the Black family. African Americans trusted their bibles for much more than sacred writings— they also ...

The Holy Bible containing handwritten records for the Ellis family. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Clara Ellis Payne This Ellis family ...

Bible scholars believe the legendary Ark of the Covenant may have landed in Africa after it was taken out of Israel. The Ark is said to be a gold-covered wooden chest containing two stone tablets on ...

The way we translate and interpret the Bible is always shaped by both textual and contextual factors. The rise of cultural hermeneutics within the field of biblical studies has challenged scholars to ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The first special exhibition to focus specifically on religion since the museum opened includes photos and artifacts accompanied by quotations of famous African Americans.

Bruce Gordon shows how believers in every era have experienced their sacred book through all the human senses. In one of his many insightful essays, the late missiologist Andrew Walls asked whether ...

Pastor Dr. Tony Evans talks to the congregation as his ministers lead a group to a side room for additional prayer during Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship's presentation of, "The Greatest Doubt," on Easter ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The so-called Slave Bible, on loan from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., excludes 90 percent of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, and 50 percent of the New. WASHINGTON (RNS) — ...