Essay: From church to the mosque, faith and friends help Iowa’s African immigrants and refugees build a sense of home
Social scientists OSAMAMEN OBA EDUVIERE and BRADY G’SELL, of the University of Iowa, explain – in an article first published on The Conversation – detail the findings of the Homebuilding in the Heartland research project…
Updated: In show of strength, Trump dominates Iowa caucus, DeSantis edges Haley for second
Updated: 4:45pm (AEDT) Des Moines, Iowa Reuters Donald Trump secured a resounding victory in the first 2024 Republican presidential contest in Iowa on Monday, asserting his dominance over the party as he seeks a third consecutive nomination and a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden. Edison Research projected the win and said Florida Governor Ron […]
US election: In Iowa and beyond, evangelical Christian voters follow their party more than their faith
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…
In Iowa, school shooting prompts Republican prayers, while Trump campaigns by proxy
Sioux City. IowaReuters A school shooting in Iowa, where Republican nominating contests begin next week for the US presidential election, prompted prayers from among those wanting to be the party’s candidate, but elicited no substantial policy proposals among the top contenders. The incident saw a sixth-grade student killed and five people wounded after a 17-year-old […]
Takeaways from the 2024 US election trail: Dueling TV events, attack ads
Des Moines, Iowa Reuters Iowa Republicans will have dueling televised events to choose from on 10th January as they consider which candidate they want to face Joe Biden in November’s presidential election: the frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, going solo on one news channel or his two closest rivals squaring off against each other. On […]
Biden on Trump ‘dictator’ remark: “He’s saying it out loud”
Philadelphia, USReuters President Joe Biden told donors at a political fundraiser on Monday that former President Donald Trump is a threat to US democracy and said the Republican had pledged to be a dictator for a day if elected in 2024. “He’s saying it out loud,” said Biden, a Democrat who is running for reelection. […]
After US church shooting, Iowa pastor tells flock: “God is near to the broken-hearted”
United StatesRNS At a Friday morning prayer service, stunned and shattered worshippers gathered to weep, pray, sing and mourn two young women killed at an Iowa church. The service was hours after a fatal shooting in the parking lot of Cornerstone Church in Ames, Iowa, home to Iowa State University. The shooting occurred on the […]
In US state of Iowa, priests cannot be charged for old abuse despite new law
Iowa City, Iowa, USAP Roman Catholic priests who victimized Iowa children decades ago cannot be prosecuted despite a new law eliminating the statute of limitations for child sex abuse, the state attorney general says. The law, signed by Governor Kim Reynolds last month, does not apply to cases in which the statute of limitations has already expired, […]
In the US state of Iowa, hard-hit churches and faith-based organisations rally to help out in wake of derecho storm
RNS Pam Schulz has never seen anything like it. Just about every home in the Cedar Rapids area has been impacted by the storms that swept across the Midwest last week with hurricane-force winds, according to Schulz, the executive director of St Mark’s Lutheran Church, a congregation in Marion, Iowa, affiliated with Lutheran Congregations in Mission […]
As coronavirus death rates multiply, these monks are giving away caskets
RNS They live secluded lives in a stone abbey near a privately owned forest in a rural part of eastern Iowa in the US. But the Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey are not closed off from the world’s troubles. Monks make cremation urns at New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa. PICTURE: Mark Hirsch Last […]