Kansas
Here’s the latest on the investigation into the shooting at Joel Osteen’s megachurch
By Juan A. Lozano and Jim Vertuno — February 15, 2024
HOUSTON (AP) — The shooting is one of many that have involved shooters who legally obtained guns despite criminal history and mental health problems.
Mother files wrongful death lawsuit against now-closed Christian boarding school in Missouri
By Heather Hollingsworth — October 25, 2023
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Former Agape students came forward with abuse allegations in 2020.
Overturning Roe wasn’t a win for faith. Kansas was.
By Jamie Manson — August 11, 2022
(RNS) — The vote showed that the anti-abortion movement is really about white privilege and political power.
In Kansas abortion vote, a blow to Catholic bishops’ political strategy
By Jack Jenkins — August 4, 2022
(RNS) — ‘If this is what the bishops are going to do, if this was their plan for a ‘post-Roe’ world, then Catholics are going to be very disappointed,’ said one observer of the Catholic hierarchy.
Kansas nuns oppose abortion-related state amendment, challenging archbishop
By Jack Jenkins — July 27, 2022
(RNS) — “A church sign said, ‘Jesus trusted women. We do too,’” reads the nuns’ letter.
Kansas financially protecting workers who refuse COVID shots
By John Hanna — November 23, 2021
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday brushed aside complaints from fellow Democrats about signing a Republican measure aimed at financially protecting workers who refuse to get COVID-19 vaccines by declaring, “leadership means seeking compromise.” Kelly acted with unusual speed, signing the bill the afternoon after its passage by the GOP-controlled Legislature […]
Why are we litigating church openings?
By Mark Silk — April 22, 2020
(RNS) — Answer: Because it's a good culture war issue.
Oklahoma bill supports religious objections to same-sex adoptions
By Yonat Shimron — May 3, 2018
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Supporters of such measures argue that the core issue is protecting a group's right to live out its religious faith, while critics see them as attacks on LGBT rights.
Pompeo’s Kansas church asks God to ‘give him strength’ in Senate confirmation process
By Bobby Ross Jr. — April 17, 2018
WICHITA, Kan. (RNS) — 'Mike has enemies because of his faith who may try to paint him in a poor light and make it difficult for him to reach the Secretary of State position,' the pastor of nominee Mike Pompeo wrote to his congregation.
Defense wants rural Trump voters in jury pool for Kansas bomb case
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 4, 2018
(AP) Attorneys for the accused, charged with plotting to bomb Muslims in rural southwest Kansas, say Trump voters there have a 'different belief system' than potential jurors who live near urban Wichita.
Kansas trio plead not guilty in plot to bomb apartment, mosque
By Jerome Socolovsky — October 18, 2016
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuters) Three men charged with plotting to bomb an apartment building in western Kansas where Muslim immigrants from Somalia lived and had a mosque plead not guilty but remain in jail.
Methodist pastor in Kansas placed on leave after coming out as a lesbian
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 3, 2016
(RNS) The Rev. Cynthia Meyer said she is 'heartbroken' by the resolution.
White supremacist should die for 3 Kansas Jewish center murders, prosecutor argues
By Reuters — September 2, 2015
OLATHE, Kan. (Reuters) A prosecutor urged a jury to give a Missouri white supremacist he called a "remorseless killer" a death sentence for murdering three people he thought were Jewish outside two Jewish centers in Kansas last year.
Kansas town laments forced removal of Jesus picture from school
By Reuters — August 25, 2015
(Reuters) Local churches and other groups are offering to house the portrait, which had hung in the school since at least the 1950s, and community leaders have been working to defuse anger over its removal.
Kansas man arrested in bomb plot in support of Islamic State
By Reuters — April 13, 2015
(Reuters) A Kansas man was arrested on Friday as part of an FBI sting operation in which he was plotting a suicide car bombing at Fort Riley army base in support of the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors said.
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