Radnor Township is hosting a wreath-laying ceremony Friday, Feb. 14, for AME Church founder Bishop Richard Allen, reports The Keystone. The ceremony, at Bishop Richard Allen Park, 227 Brook Street ...

Richard Allen, born into slavery near Smyrna ... He purchased his freedom and moved to Philadelphia where he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was among the nation's leading ...

A church in a historic New Jersey town was being restored for a theater company's use. Contractors found a letter from 1891 ...

(WTVO) — A Rockford church celebrated its founding father, Richard Allen ... celebration recognizes not only Allen but the birth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Walker said that Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, "has done more in a spiritual sense for his ignorant and wretched brethren than any other man of colour ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - February is not only Black History Month, it’s also a time when African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Churches worldwide celebrate its founding father Richard Allen.

When Richard ... of a church, and in May, 1794, he bought an old blacksmith shop and had it moved to within a few blocks of St. Thomas's. There he founded an African Methodist Episcopal (AME ...

The completion of the painting of Richard Allen was celebrated in ... and moved to Philadelphia where he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was among the nation's leading ...