Alaska
Native Alaskan healer named North America’s first female saint in Orthodox Church
By Meagan Saliashvili — November 10, 2023
(RNS) — A Native Alaskan midwife known for her healing love, especially toward abused women, was glorified at a meeting of bishops in Chicago this week.
Anchorage’s oldest building, a Russian Orthodox church, gets new life in restoration project
By Mark Thiessen — October 30, 2023
EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives.
How COVID-19 and the fight against Big Oil is reviving one Alaskan people’s spiritual traditions
By Daysha Eaton — May 30, 2020
(RNS) — How indigenous women are leading the fight to protect one of North America’s last wild places, sparking a cultural and spiritual renaissance.
Snowstorm didn’t stop this Alaska church from hosting drive-in worship service
By Alejandra Molina — March 26, 2020
(RNS) — A pastor in Alaska donned a parka, cleaned hymnals with Clorox wipes and held church in the snow this week.
The Pacific Northwest is the American religious future
By Mark Silk — May 31, 2019
SEATTLE (RNS) — Recent research on the region's distinctive religious culture gives us hints about what a society dominated by Nones may look like.
Alaska archdiocese launches commission to review church files on sexual abuse
By Jack Jenkins — October 24, 2018
(RNS) — The inquiry could take nine months to complete and will include 'recommendation on improvements regarding Archdiocesan governance, policies, and procedures concerning sexual misconduct,' according to a release.
How the loss of Native Americans’ languages affects our understanding of their belief
By Rosalyn R. LaPier — October 9, 2018
(The Conversation) — Embedded in indigenous languages is information about their beliefs about the creation and preservation of the environment.
Voters pass wage hikes and legal pot, divide on abortion
By Greg Toppo — November 5, 2014
(RNS) Tennessee approved a constitutional amendment that will give more power to state lawmakers to regulate and restrict abortion.
What happens next in the 20 states that still ban gay marriage?
By Brad Heath — October 7, 2014
(RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday leaves unchanged 20 state laws blocking same-sex unions. Each is already under legal attack, and some judges in those cases had been waiting to see what the high court would do. The court's instruction Monday: Proceed.
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