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The Rev. Brian Strassburger, left, and the Rev. Flavio Bravo, right, bless migrants during Mass at the Casa del Migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico, on Dec. 15, 2022. Both hope and tension have been rising here and the few other shelters in this border city where thousands of migrants await news of U.S. border policy changes possibly less than a week away. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

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Faith leaders prep for border changes amid tension, hope
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Mon,12/19/22-8:03AM , 51 Reads
REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — Two long lines of migrants waited for blessings from visiting Catholic priests celebrating Mass at the Casa del Migrante shelter in this border city, just across the bank of the Rio Grande River from Texas.
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Eline Gro Knatterud, 4, greets Queen Sonja of Norway as she arrives to Den Norske Lutherske Mindekirke, the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Minneapolis, Sunday Oct. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

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Queen lauds Minnesota church's century of Norwegian worship
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Sun,10/16/22-12:54PM , 354 Reads
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Before attending the packed Sunday morning service, Queen Sonja of Norway praised Mindekirken congregation for having maintained worship in Norwegian for all 100 years that the church has existed in Minneapolis.
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Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson and Pastor Marty Calderon shake hands at a local Republican election office in Milwaukee, on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. In two decades of street outreach on Milwaukee’s south side, Calderon has offered Bible study, gang prevention, a safe place to stay for those battling addiction, and help getting jobs for those newly released from prison. But as he’s watched rising crime threaten those efforts to “clean up” his impoverished neighborhood, Calderon started bringing Republican politicians to his ministry, God Touch. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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In Milwaukee, Latinos fed up with crime weigh GOP appeal
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Thu,10/13/22-9:30AM , 80 Reads
MILWAUKEE (AP) — In two decades of street outreach on Milwaukee’s south side, evangelical pastor Marty Calderon has offered Bible study, gang prevention, a safe place to stay for those battling addiction, and help getting jobs for those newly released from prison.
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Ryan White, front, and Darold Madigan harvest wild rice on Leech Lake in Minnesota, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. White, who has been ricing for three decades, says the beds are "continually shrinking," which endangers the wild rice's spiritual and economic gifts. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Minnesota Ojibwe harvest sacred, climate-imperiled wild rice
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Tue,09/20/22-10:31AM , 181 Reads
ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back up.
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