Religion - The Durango Herald

#ChurchToo revelations growing, years after movement began

A withering report about sexual abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. A viral video in which a woman confronts her pastor at ...

DATE: Jun 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

American Heritage Girl builds Durango’s first walking rosary

Project was last requirement to earn Stars and Stripes Award for 17-year-old Nadine Drake

DATE: Jun 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Shootings expose divisions on gun issue in faith communities

After a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, several pastors around the country challenged their conservative counterparts with thi...

DATE: Jun 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns

PITTSBURGH – The victory party took on the feel of an evangelical worship service after Doug Mastriano won Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial primary in May. As a Christian singer led t...

DATE: May 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Southern Baptists face push for public list of sex abusers

A blistering report about the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly acc...

DATE: May 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Buddhist chaplains, offering broad appeal, on the rise in U.S.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Wedged into a recliner in the corner of her assisted living apartment in Portland, Skylar Freimann, who has a terminal heart condition and pulmonary illness, anxiously eyed ...

DATE: May 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

After leak, religious rift over legal abortion on display

America’s faithful are bracing – some with cautionary joy and others with looming dread – for the Supreme Court to potentially overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and end the nat...

DATE: May 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Black Catholic nuns: A compelling, long-overlooked history

Even as a young adult, Shannen Dee Williams – who grew up Black and Catholic in Memphis, Tennessee – knew of only one Black nun, and a fake one at that: Sister Mary Clarence, as played by Wh...

DATE: May 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Supreme Court tackles case about praying football coach

WASHINGTON – A coach who crosses himself before a game. A teacher who reads the Bible aloud before the bell rings. A coach who hosts an after-school Christian youth group in his home. Suprem...

DATE: Apr 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

First pope, now U.S. churches face boarding-school reckoning

As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis’ historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for an unpreced...

DATE: Apr 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Across U.S., faith groups mobilize to aid Ukrainian refugees

LOS ANGELES – As U.S. refugee resettlement agencies and nonprofits nationwide gear up to help Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion and war that has raged for nearly six weeks, members of ...

DATE: Apr 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion

Grassroots groups help rescue Holocaust survivors in Ukraine

LOS ANGELES – Since the shelling began to intensify in Kyiv and Kharkiv earlier this month, Julia Entin has been working feverishly – thousands of miles away in Los Angeles – to evacuate Hol...

DATE: Mar 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Religion