Chicago veteran fights deportation after serving time for drug charge
Pfc. Miguel Perez Jr. remembers seeing the sun rise in Afghanistan on July 4, 2003. As his U.S. Special Forces unit rounded a bend toward Kandahar, he saw an American...
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Rabbi Herman Schaalman, an interfaith pioneer, dies at 100
From the time he was a young boy in Munich through his decades as a pioneer of interfaith cooperation, Rabbi Herman Schaalman never stopped searching for God. Even after turning...
Chicago advocates condemn Trump’s order on refugees, migrants
Chicago immigration reform advocates and Muslim leaders denounced President Donald Trump's executive order to temporarily block refugees coming to the U.S. while the government reviews screening processes, calling it an...
Victims advocacy group announces leader’s resignation in wake of lawsuit
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests announced Tuesday that its longtime national director, accused by a former SNAP employee of referring potential clients to attorneys in return for...
Ex-worker sues priest sex-abuse victims advocacy group, says it exploited survivors
A former employee of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests has sued the victims advocacy group, alleging that SNAP exploited victims of sexual abuse by clergy in...
Ex-worker sues priest sex-abuse victims advocacy group, says it exploited survivors
A former employee of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests has sued the victims advocacy group, alleging that SNAP exploited victims of sexual abuse by clergy in...
West suburban dentist treats clergy for free
The nuns always come to the Westmont dentist in pairs, dressed in full habits, to which the dentist adds a white paper bib when it's time for one sister to...
West Garfield Park church youth pay tribute to tradition and victims of violence
At New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in West Garfield Park, worshippers will assemble Saturday — as many black church congregations do on New Year's Eve — to commemorate the...
At Christmas, church helps to welcome refugees
For the past six years, the congregation at St. Pascal Roman Catholic Church in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood has collected Christmas donations for families in tremendous pain — a woman...
Methodist church eases post-election fears for Muslim, minority artists
Malik Gillani remembers the first day his world turned upside down. It was Sept. 11, 2001, the day terrorist attacks cast a cloud of suspicion on his entire Muslim community....