In the US, ELCA hears from Indigenous boarding school survivor ahead of National Day of Remembrance
United StatesRNS George McCauley can still hear the school secretary’s voice calling his name over the loudspeaker on the wall of his 11th grade English classroom. He can still remember walking back to his dorm at the Flandreau Indian School in South Dakota, wondering what he had done wrong, and the school official who met […]
Lutherans ask Trump administration to admit more refugees as deadline looms
RNS Days before the deadline for the US Government to set its annual limit on the number of refugees that can be admitted to the United States, the Trump administration has not yet proposed that number, according to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, the largest faith-based organisation in the US dedicated to serving immigrants. If […]
In the US, priest supports whistleblower allegations at ICE facility as Christian leaders weigh in
RNS An Episcopal priest who volunteers at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centre in the US state of Georgia has said allegations of medical neglect and a high rate of hysterectomies at the facility are consistent with her interactions with women detained there. “There were gynecological procedures happening at a rate that seemed higher […]
ELCA Presiding Bishop Eaton lightens up on social media with viral neon Luther rose
Chicago, USRNS As churches in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America closed to slow the spread of COVID-19, Elizabeth Eaton, the presiding bishop of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination, began offering weekly video messages from her home. But viewers were captivated by more than her words of comfort or calls for prayer and action to […]