Chicago
Chicago pastors help the city grapple with flood of migrants
By Rebekah Barber — January 17, 2024
(RNS) — ‘There’s already plenty of need present in this community,’ said one faith leader. The challenge is to make the situation work for both longtime residents and migrants arriving from the border.
Jewish protesters and allies block Israeli consulate in Chicago, demanding a cease-fire in Gaza
By Claire Savage — November 15, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago protesters cheered Monday as police led demonstrators from the building with hands zip-tied behind their backs, many in black T-shirts that read, “Not in our name.”
For what crime did Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old in Chicago, die?
By Omar Suleiman — October 18, 2023
(RNS) — Every child should have the right to grow up with the compassion that Wadea Al-Fayoume expected.
Preview: Defending Freedom and Human Rights at the Parliament of the World’s Religions
By Jonathan Woodward — August 16, 2023
Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush previews the 2023 convening of the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago with Rev. Stephen Avino, Sara Rahim, and Phyllis Curott.
Lutheran, Presbyterian schools moving to Chicago campus of Catholic Theological Union
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 11, 2023
CHICAGO (RNS) — Each of the three schools will remain independent with its own identity, mission and governance.
No tricks! Church trunk or treats are a Halloween tradition
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 25, 2022
ST. CHARLES, Illinois (RNS) — Trunk or treats have grown in popularity in recent decades, many hosted by churches as outreach to their surrounding communities.
Ahmadi Muslims inaugurate new mosque on site of historic ‘prayer duel’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 30, 2022
(RNS) — In a town built as a 'city of God,' the new Fath-e-Azeem Mosque sits within a block of two churches and a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Nonreligious women of color convene to talk Christian nationalism, reproductive rights
By Alejandra Molina — September 29, 2022
(RNS) — ‘It cannot all be focused on church and state separation. That’s not going to work for people of color, specifically women of color,’ said one organizer of the Women of Color Beyond Belief conference.
Nearly two years after election, Episcopal Diocese of Chicago’s first Black female bishop takes office
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 18, 2022
LOMBARD, Illinois (RNS) — Just weeks before she was set to take office in April 2021, Bishop Paula Clark experienced a brain bleed while exercising and later underwent surgery.
‘Media nuns’ say goodbye to sweet home Chicago after more than 40 years
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 12, 2022
CHICAGO (RNS) — The Chicago book center and convent is one of four locations that the Daughters of St. Paul are closing in the United States as the order reconfigures its presence across the United States and Toronto.
Chicago church preaches ‘The Gospel according to Dolly Parton’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 30, 2022
(RNS) — For the past five weeks, each Sunday’s sermon at Church of the Three Crosses has focused on a different song by Parton.
Residents of Chicago’s Ukrainian Village rally on steps of church as Russia invades Ukraine
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 25, 2022
CHICAGO (RNS) — The church is where many Ukrainians turn when there’s trouble, according to one person at the demonstration.
Some pastors fear talking about vaccines. Bishop Horace Smith sees them as a blessing.
By Bob Smietana — December 9, 2021
(RNS) — Church leaders can play an important role in promoting COVID-19 vaccines to keep communities safe — if they build trust.
What two 9/11 anniversaries can teach us about the role of religion
By Eboo Patel — September 7, 2021
(RNS) — More than 100 years ago, Swami Vivekananda had a vision of faith as a bridge of cooperation.
‘Apostles of Change’ tells how secular Latino activists protested by seizing sacred spaces
By Alejandra Molina — July 6, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We know very little about Latino and Latina religious leaders that were prophets, that were religious radicals — people who stood up to faith and justice,’ said historian Felipe Hinojosa.
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