Antioch Baptist Church’s Pastor Bruce C. Carroll, Sr. will host Sunday service at 10 a.m. April 25 in the Caddo Common Park, located at 869 Texas Ave. in downtown Shreveport.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- One of the oldest black churches in Shreveport is undergoing a first step in a long awaited renovation project. Extensive work needs to be done on Antioch Baptist Church.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Badly-needed funds are on the way to repair a deteriorating, historic Shreveport church. Antioch Baptist Church was organized in 1866 by 73 formerly enslaved people.

In Shreveport, a group of 73 former slaves received letters of honorable dismissal from the white First Baptist Church. With one Black minister and one white minister, this group established the ...

Antioch Baptist Church, situated down the street from the condemned building at 724 Butler St., wants to buy the property and demolish the structure itself, a deacon with the Baptist church told ...