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After more than half a century, the African Methodist Episcopal Church has reestablished a presence in Cuba. The first AME church in Cuba is believed to have been founded in 1898 in Santiago, and until 1960, when the Communits Party took over the country, there were many active AME congregations in Cuba. But after the revolution, the AME presence diminished and became almost non-existent. 

Stan Mc­Kenzie, the husband of Afri­can Methodist Epis­copal Church bishop Vashti Mur­phy Mc­Ken­zie, died on July 21 in Dal­las after a brief illness. He was 76.

Less than two weeks before, Mc­Kenzie’s wife—the first woman bishop in the denomination’s 205-year history—praised her spouse at the retirement service for bishops during the AME Church’s General Conference.