Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months ...

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of ...

Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low-income people.

It never got old. No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was ...

But in 1979, Gierek rebuffed Moscow’s orders by allowing newly elected Pope John Paul II to visit ... his books and expositions and Sunday School lessons, the Baptist from Plains hewed to ...

But in 1979, Gierek rebuffed Moscow’s orders by allowing newly elected Pope John Paul II to visit his native Poland ... praised Carter as a “man of peace and compassion” and argued that for all his ...

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. The 39th president of the United States was a Georgia peanut farmer who sought to restore trust in government ...

Carter was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in August 2015. While teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, he said he had surgery on a mass on his liver and had radiation ...

President Biden said former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday, “lived a life measured not by words but by deeds ... feel they lost a friend as well even though they never met him,” Biden said.

He regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined and the coronavirus pandemic raged. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world to the ...