Historic Cleveland church with Civil Rights ties receives $750K grant: 'gift from God'

A nearly 200-year-old church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke from the pulpit months before his assassination recently learned it had received a $750,000 grant to help preserve the building, a blessing that the church’s pastor called “a gift from God.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”