ATLANTA — A fiery, old-school pastor who is under fire for saying black America is losing “its soul” at Aretha Franklin’s funeral stands firm by his words with the hope that critics can understand his ...

From left, Bryan Ries holds his Volunteer of the Year Award plaque on June 16 next to Carolyn Williams and Franklin Mayor Steve Barnett. Photo provided A Franklin pastor and teacher has been ...

Aretha Franklin’s family on Monday slammed the pastor at her funeral for delivering a eulogy that was “offensive and distasteful” while neglecting to honor the Queen of Soul. Vaughn Franklin, the late ...

Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. received backlash for saying black America is losing "its soul" and also for his thoughts about the Black Lives Matter movement in his eulogy for Aretha Franklin. By The ...

The Rev. Charles M. Franklin Jr., pastor of Ray of Hope Baptist Church in Northeast Baltimore, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 47. He officiated at Ray of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Reverend Juan Carlos Garcia was booked into the Williamson County Jail on Friday on a child sex crime charge. Garcia, a former associate pastor at St. Philip Catholic Church ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The day after the shooting death of a 10-year-old Franklin boy, Franklin native, pastor, and Virginia Beach NAACP president Eric Majette is devastated. “To see a ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WFXR) — After more than 30 years, a woman shared her story with WFXR News about being sexually abused by her father, who used to be a pastor at a church in Franklin County. “I ...

Pastor Darryl Thompson Powell doesn’t like to be the center of attention. That’s why members of his congregation, Resurrection Lutheran Church in Franklin Park, discovered by accident that Sept. 14 ...

Pastor Fred "Chip" Luter III started as a street preacher in the 9th Ward before building Franklin Avenue Baptist Church into ...

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The late Aretha Franklin's family said Monday that it found an Atlanta pastor's eulogy delivered at the Queen of Soul's funeral last week to be offensive and distasteful. The eulogist, the Rev. Jasper ...