Article: AIDS TOPS AGENDA OF BLACK METHODISTS.(NEWS)

With AIDS, the American black male, and female bishops on its agenda, the African Methodist Episcopal Church opens a conference in Cincinnati today that may prove to be one of its most historic ever, a church spokesman said.

The 2 million-member church is holding its 46th quadrennial General Conference at the Dr. Albert B. Sabin Cincinnati Convention Center through July 12.

The AME Church is the nation's oldest black denomination and its largest black Methodist denomination.

About 20,000 church members, including 1,800 voting delegates, are expected to visit over the next seven days. General Conference, the church's major policy-making body, ...

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