Jones founded the church, now located at 601 N.E. 19th St., in 1976, and served as its senior pastor until turning the leadership of the church over to his son Timothy L. Jones and his wife, Lady Nona ...

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GAINESVILLE, Fla.,None — The controversial Gainesville pastor, who threatened to publicly burn a Quran on the anniversary of 911 last year, has gone through with it. Last weekend, Pastor Terry Jones ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Pastor Melvin T. Jones held his final Sunday service in Lansing after serving the community for nearly 4 decades. Pastor Jones isn’t a Lansing native. He actually isn’t even a ...

Another Sept. 11 is behind us, leaving something new and disturbing — a dark spawn to examine with plenty of careful soul-searching. That legacy is the reflexive, lock-step process by which an ...

Florida Pastor Terry Jones announced plans Thursday to cancel his church's much-derided plans to burn Qurans on the 9/11 anniversary should a planned Islamic community center be moved further away ...