by Barry Howard | Oct 12, 2018 | Opinion
This has been a sad and anxiety-riddled week on the Florida Panhandle. One of the most powerful storms in history sprinted across the Gulf of Mexico and then blitzed ashore between Florida’s Panama City Beach and Port Saint Joe, wreaking havoc from Navarre Beach to...
by Josef Kuhn | Nov 4, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) As Congress prepares for a high-stakes battle over federal spending, religious leaders are lobbying senators to preserve foreign aid as a moral obligation. “We’re talking about lives—great numbers of lives that are saved with minimal input on our...
by Lauren Markoe | Sep 2, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is donating $25,000 to help repair the Washington National Cathedral, which sustained millions of dollars in damage in the earthquake that rocked the East Coast on Aug. 23. “The National Cathedral holds a special...
by Bruce Nolan | May 26, 2011 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) A Methodist hurricane-recovery ministry that funneled nearly 68,000 hammer-wielding volunteers into metro New Orleans until it essentially ran out of money has reinvented itself—by asking volunteers to pitch in $225 to spend a week repairing houses....
by Adelle Banks | Mar 15, 2011 | News
(RNS) As the extent of the death and destruction from the massive disaster in Japan comes into focus, religious relief organizations are sending and supporting teams to assess the damage. Groups such World Vision and Baptist World Aid have teams on the ground...
