by News Feed Editor | Aug 12, 2022 | Religion
STOCKTON, Calif. (RNS) — Una alegre celebración en honor a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe estaba en marcha en Misión Latina Luterana en diciembre pasado cuando la reverenda Megan Rohrer, entonces obispa del Sínodo de la Sierra del Pacífico, anunció a la congregación...
by News Feed Editor | Aug 12, 2022 | Religion
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Members of New Mexico’s Muslim community pushed Thursday for the Afghan refugee suspected of killing four Muslim men to remain behind bars pending trial — citing previous accusations of domestic violence and video surveillance that appeared to...
by News Feed Editor | Aug 12, 2022 | Religion
GRANGER, Ind. (AP) — Political leaders on Thursday honored Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana as a determined advocate for her beliefs during a funeral after she and three other people were killed in a highway crash last week.Numerous members of Congress...
by News Feed Editor | Aug 11, 2022 | Religion
(RNS) — Imam Mohamed Magid, the executive religious director of a Northern Virginia mosque and a leader in interfaith relations, has been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.Magid said he received word from the White House that his...
by News Feed Editor | Aug 11, 2022 | Religion
(RNS) — For the entirety of his adolescence and young adulthood, YouTuber Rhett McLaughlin strived to live as the epitome of a winsome Christian. He was raised in a devout home in North Carolina and previously worked as a full-time missionary on college campuses in...
by News Feed Editor | Aug 11, 2022 | Religion
COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS) — There was a time when Lutherans were recognized as the advocates for Indigenous peoples, according to Vance Blackfox, director for Indigenous ministries and tribal relations for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the United States’...