The church he'd presided over since 1986 had long outgrown its home at 2515 Franklin Ave. in the St. Roch neighborhood and had to hold three services each Sunday just to meet the demand. It was time ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS— The thousands of New Orleans ...

Elsie Clark's home took on 7 feet of Katrina's floodwaters, but her memories of destruction are now receding. In the season of renewal, Clark's house, a neighbor to Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, has ...

There is a new vaccine site opening up in New Orleans East. Ochsner Health will administer appointments at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church.The event is tomorrow from 8 a.m. until 12 p.m.Those wanting a ...

Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans’ Upper 8th Ward has about 4,000 members — most of them black, and all Southern Baptist. As the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern ...

The Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in east New Orleans, lived for seven months in Birmingham after the hurricane flooded his church in water eight feet deep. The massive ...

NEW ORLEANS — Dillard University is holding is commencement ceremony on Saturday and it's moving locations due to weather. The ceremony is moving to Franklin Avenue Baptist Church starting at 8 a.m.

c. 2012 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The Southern Baptist Convention began in 1845 in support of slaveholders and is now poised to elect its first African-American president, the Rev ...

HOUSTON — A congregation sown from the seeds of Hurricane Katrina has planted itself more than 300 miles from home. Its members say their new lives for the past decade have been here, but their ...

More than a decade ago, the Rev. Fred Luter Jr. had a vision. The church he'd presided over since 1986 had long outgrown its home at 2515 Franklin Ave. in the St. Roch neighborhood and had to hold ...