Head of US Catholic diocese urges nuclear disarmament talks
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USAP The head of one of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States says now is the time to rejuvenate and sustain a global conversation about the need for nuclear disarmament and how to develop ways to avoid a new nuclear arms race. Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester released a […]
US state of New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USAP/Report for America New Mexico has become the latest US state to provide a legal pathway for terminally ill patients to choose when and how they die. On Thursday, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, named for a New Mexico judge who advocated for medically assisted […]
US: IN NEW MEXICO TOWN, SINGLE PARENTS GET FREE RENT, BENEFITS – IF THEY GO TO CHURCH
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, in an article first published by ‘The Christian Chronicle’, reports…
Iraqi refugee in New Mexico leaves church sanctuary after two years
RNS Kadhim Al-bumohammed, a 66-year-old Muslim refugee from Iraq who trained tens of thousands of US soldiers in Arabic and Arab culture, walked out of an Albuquerque, New Mexico, church basement last month a free man. Al-bumohammed had spent two years inside of First Congregational United Church of Christ seeking sanctuary from deportation. Kadhim Al-bumohammed, […]
SEX ABUSE SCANDAL: US STATES LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS IN WAKE OF PENNSYLVANIA REPORT INTO CATHOLIC CLERGY ABUSE OF CHILDREN
In this in-depth report, JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, looks at how US states have responded to a “bombshell” report from Pennsylvania which detailed the alleged sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by hundreds of Catholic priests by launching their own investigations…
US homeless shelter founder and Christian writer Jeremy Reynalds dies at age 60
Jeremy Reynalds, founder and CEO of the largest homeless shelter in the US state of New Mexico, has died at the age of 60. Dr Jeremy Reynalds. Dr Reynalds, a contributor to ASSIST News Service (some of his stories have also been republished on Sight), founded Joy Junction in Albuquerque in 1986 to aid homeless […]