Saving the farm: US heartland clergy train to prevent agriculture workers’ suicides
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on an initiative in which states such as Minnesota and South Dakota are offering suicide prevention training to clergy – a crucial, trusted presence in rural America…
Church to thieves: Bell won’t toll for thee if you’ll give it back
RNS The St Paul’s Episcopal Church bell tower was recently destroyed and the bell was stolen near Norris, South Dakota. PICTURE: Lauren R Stanley Who would steal a 400-pound church bell? That’s the question baffling the parishioners of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church near Norris, South Dakota, where the hundred-year-old bell has chimed for news, services […]