NEW YORK  –  Marvin Sapp’s single “Never Would Have Made It” is a record-breaking phenomenon far beyond the world of gospel.
The track from his seventh album, “Thirsty,” is in its 42nd week at No. 1 on Billboard’s gospel radio charts. It is a crossover success with its perch at No. 1 on the urban adult [...]

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MYFOXNY.COM  –  The sons of gospel singer Rev. Timothy Wright says that faith and love are holding their family together. A horrific car crash in Pennsylvania critically injured the Reverend and killed his wife and their teenage grandson. Wright is responsive but cannot talk because of his serious injuries, including a [...]

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Gospel Singer in Critical Condition, Wife Grandson Dead
MyFoxNY.com  –  The scene was somber at Brooklyn’s Grace Tabernacle Christian Center after pastor Timothy Wright’s wife and grandson were killed in a car crash that left Wright in critical condition. Wright is also a Grammy-nominated gospel singer. Fox 5’s Rob Malcolm got the story from Crown [...]

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Chicago, IL.  –  The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the Catholic priest who got in trouble for mocking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has returned to his Chicago parish after a nearly two-week suspension.
Pfleger told a cheering congregation at St. Sabina Catholic church Sunday that he returns to the pulpit “committed to the gospel [...]

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Chicago  –  The Cook County Bar Association’s awards dinner wouldn’t typically attract reporters. But when the keynote speaker is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, it’s a different story. And there’s another reason Thursday night’s event is in the public spotlight. Lilia Chacon reports from outside the Hyatt Regency to tell us why.
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by Traci Adkins
With June being black music month, the buzz on accomplishments of blacks in the business is in full throttle. On Wednesday, June 18 @ 7:30pm, The Recording Academy will celebrate Gospel Icons at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. The 2009 Grammy Salute to Gospel Music will honor GRAMMY winners Edwin and [...]

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By The Associated Press
SUFFOLK, Va.  –  The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is canceling an appearance at a church conference in Suffolk later this month.Wright is the former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Barack Obama recently left the congregation where he had been a member for some 20 years. Obama’s decision came in [...]

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Chicago, IL. — The Rev. Michael Pfleger will return to St. Sabina parish on June 16, a parish official said.
Cardinal Francis George temporarily removed the outspoken priest from his South Side parish last week in the wake of comments Pfleger made about presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)
On Sunday morning, [...]

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Chicago, IL.  –  The Chicago priest whose comments about Hillary Rodham Clinton reignited the controversy over Barack Obama’s former church stood before his own parishioners today and apologized.
Speaking from a lectern in the front of St. Sabina’s sanctuary, the Reveverand Michael Pfleger says he’s not racist or sexist. And he says the past few days [...]

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Abardeed, S.D.  –  Barack Obama has resigned his 20 year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his longtime pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and more recent fiery remarks at the church by another minister.
Obama campaign communications director Robert Gibbs said Obama had submitted a [...]

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