‘Beechdale Road’ co-authors release untold “story of redemption” in time for anniversary of devastating tragedy LANCASTER, Penn. — The tragic kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old Amish woman is the focus of a “powerful” new book with a surprising twist....
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the defendants in the Vatican’s big financial trial has formally complained to the United Nations that Pope Francis violated his human rights by authorizing wide-ranging surveillance during the investigation. A lawyer for Raffaele Mincione,...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor. The...
(RNS) — On July 5, 1852, the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester invited Frederick Douglass to give a speech on the 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The address became known by its central piercing question,...
(RNS) — For most Native American children in the late 19th century and early 20th, education was neither a right nor a privilege. Indigenous children from Florida to Alaska were taken away, sometimes by force, to residential schools run by...
(RNS) — One of the largest Catholic health care systems in the United States, Ascension, a nonprofit that has previously been accused of behaving like a private equity fund, is now outsourcing staffing of its hospital physicians and other clinicians in...
(RNS) — Paul Pressler, who died this month at the age of 94, served for decades as a state judge in Texas, but among Southern Baptists he will be remembered for two other things. First, in tandem with Paige Patterson,...
(RNS) — For decades, Richard Smallwood has been on stages from Carnegie Hall to churches, at the piano or at the microphone, performing music that features his distinctive genre-bending blend of gospel and classical. Now, as a way to mark...
(The Conversation) — The recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention saw a number of motions related to women. The Conversation asked Susan Shaw, a gender and sexuality studies scholar who studies Southern Baptist women, to explain the votes...
(RNS) — I am tempted to depression and despair when faced with the reality of global warming, and I fear that I am not alone. Carbon dioxide levels continue to increase, followed by rising temperatures around the world. Sea levels are...
