Evangelical Icon David Wilkerson Dies in Car Crash

(RNS) Evangelist David Wilkerson, who wrote the popular book “The Cross and the Switchblade” and founded New York’s Times Square Church, died in a traffic accident Wednesday (April 27). Wilkerson, 79, died after his car slammed into a tractor-trailer on a highway...

Chicagoans Protest Guns, Gangs, in Wake of Teen’s Murder

Rainbow PUSH Coalition founder and president Jesse Jackson is organizing a protest rally this Saturday at a suburban gun shop that he said sold the majority of guns connected with recent shooting deaths in Chicago. A longtime advocate of tougher gun laws, Jackson has...