After shooting, Wisconsin school and church lean into Christmas message for comfort
United States AP For Christians around the world, Christmas is the joyful celebration of the birth of Jesus. To affirm their beliefs – that God is present and hasn’t abandoned them – the faith community at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, is embracing its holiday traditions just days after a deadly shooting there. “When […]
In the US, Wisconsin police search for answers in rare case of female school shooter
Reuters Police in Wisconsin on Tuesday were interviewing friends and family and examining the online presence of a 15-year-old girl to determine what drove her to open fire at her private Christian school, killing a fellow student and a teacher before taking her own life. The shooter, identified by police as Natalie Rupnow, who also […]
Fifteen-year-old girl fatally shoots teacher and teenager at a Christian school in Wisconsin
Updated: 5:50pm (AEDT) Madison, Wisconsin AP A 15-year-old student opened fire inside a study hall at a small Christian school in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and teenager and prompting a swarm of police officers responding to a second grader’s 911 call. The female student wounded six others in Monday’s shooting at Abundant Life Christian School, […]
US Supreme Court will hear clash over religious exemptions from Wisconsin tax
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state’s unemployment insurance tax in a case with potential implications for constitutional religious rights. The justices took up an appeal by the Catholic Charities Bureau, […]
Harris closes campaign in Philadelphia, Trump in Michigan on eve of deadlocked election
Updated: 5:45pm (AEDT) Reading, Pennsylvania/Allentown, Pennsylvania, US Reuters Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both predicted victory as they campaigned across Pennsylvania and other battleground states on Monday in the final, frantic day of an exceptionally close US presidential election. The campaign has seen head-spinning twists: two assassination attempts and a felony conviction for Republican former […]
Why we may not know the winner of the US presidential election on 5th November
Reuters The US presidential election will take place on 5th November, but the winner of the razor-thin race between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump may not be known for days after the polls close. As ballots are counted, one candidate may appear to be leading based on early returns, only for a rival […]
US election: In swing states, officials brace for conspiracy theories and violence
NATHAN LAYNE, JOSEPH TANFANI and NED PARKER, of Reuters, report on preparations being made ahead of polling day on 5th November…
As Election Day looms, Wisconsin clergy pray and stress that every vote is sacred
Madison, Wisconsin RNS As two dozen pastors, poll chaplains and other leaders gathered for a pre-election press conference outside of First United Methodist Church in Wisconsin’s capital last Wednesday, they got a taste of what life is like in a battleground state. As Paul Raushenbush, president of the Interfaith Alliance, a national non-profit whose leaders […]
Harris closes in on nomination with delegates secured, to campaign in Wisconsin
Reuters Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin on Tuesday for the first time as a presidential candidate after enough Democratic delegates pledged to endorse her, clearing her path to the nomination. Harris has become the party’s presumed nominee after President Joe Biden withdrew from his re-election campaign on […]
US election: Why the swing state faith voters who really matter in 2024 aren’t evangelicals
BOB SMIETANA and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report that while MAGA evangelicals grab all the headlines, it’s swing state faith voters – Catholics, mainliners and Black Protestants – who will likely decide the upcoming US election…