(RNS) — Twelve years ago a group of young church leaders flew to Florida to observe ministry at a church there. Five women from the larger group arrived early at the Fort Lauderdale airport. They rented a car, drove to Miami for dinner and began to talk. They haven’t stopped since. The five, two Baptists…Continue Reading

LONDON (AP) — The owners of the Chicago Cubs, who are bidding for Premier League club Chelsea, touted their anti-racism credentials Wednesday after a backlash in England about offensive comments by the Ricketts family patriarch. It has been three years since Joe Ricketts apologized after online media outlet Splinter News published emails featuring him making…Continue Reading

(RNS) — Days after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, leaders of the Chemin Neuf Catholic Community outside Warsaw, Poland, got a call asking if it could take in a group of Ukrainian refugees. The call came from a bus driver whose route usually took him between Warsaw and the Polish village of Mistow. But on that…Continue Reading

Madeleine Albright, the 64th U.S. secretary of state and the first woman to ever serve in the role, has died of cancer, her family said. She was 84. In a statement posted to her Twitter page, Albright’s family wrote that she died Wednesday “surrounded by family and friends.”News of her death broke while Ned Price,…Continue Reading

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out state legislative maps in Wisconsin that were drawn by Democratic Governor Tony Evers, but it left in place the governor’s congressional maps.  The Wisconsin Supreme Court earlier this month selected Evers’ proposed legislative and congressional maps after hearing oral arguments from several groups that had also submitted…Continue Reading