Civil Rights Icon Fred Shuttlesworth Dies at 89

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (RNS) The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the driving force behind the Birmingham integration efforts that energized the national civil rights movement, died Wednesday (Oct. 5) at age 89. Shuttlesworth said he never feared death, and repeatedly put...

Bishop Calls Ala. Immigration Law Nation’s Meanest

(BIRMINGHAM) A new Alabama law that makes it a crime to offer rides to undocumented immigrants is the “meanest” immigration law in the country, according to a United Methodist bishop and respected theologian. Bishop William Willimon of the North Alabama Conference...

Mormons, Baptists Assist in Tornado Clean-up

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) Mormon missionaries are often unwelcome guests when they knock at local front doors wearing white dress shirts and holding a Book of Mormon. But after a tornado, when Mormon missionaries arrive in work clothes carrying chainsaws to help clear...