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Lynda Levin, right, looks on as Cheryl Goodman decorates a stone during a vigil to honor of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel at the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana in Munster, Indiana Wednesday October 7, 2026. The stones will be added to memorial rock garden outside the federation. (Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Jewish Federation of NWI remembers victims of Oct. 7 massacre

By Jim Masters

October 8, 2026 at 1:40 p.m.

Many members of the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana knew a family member, friend or...

FILE – Television evangelist Jim Bakker poses in front of the Water Park in Columbia, SC, one of the attractions at his Heritage USA, March 19, 1987. (AP Photo/Lou Krasky, File)

Jim Bakker, who lost his ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire in sex and money scandals, dies at 86

By Jim Salter

October 6, 2026 at 6:16 a.m.

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around...

President Jimmy Carter and Pope John Paul II are shown at the White House Saturday, Oct. 6, 1979. (AP Photo)

Today in History: Pope John Paul II visits the White House

By Associated Press

October 6, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On Oct. 6, 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a weeklong U.S. tour, became the...

Bishop of El Paso Mark Joseph Seitz talks with the Associated Press about the situation at the US border with Mexico during an interview at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Stellacci)

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

By Nicole Winfield

October 8, 2025 at 9:05 a.m.

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with...

Pope Leo XIV waves from his popemobile at the end of a Mass for the Jubilee of Migrants and Missionaries in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Leo XIV to visit Turkey and Lebanon next month on first foreign trip

By Nicole Winfield

October 7, 2025 at 8:33 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV will visit Turkey and Lebanon next month on the first foreign trip...

The Rev. Gary Graf kneels to receive a blessing outside Pope Leo XIV's childhood home, Dolton, Oct. 6, 2025. (Evy Lewis/Daily Southtown)

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton

By Evy Lewis

October 6, 2025 at 2:05 p.m.

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo's...

Pope Leo XIV starts to correct some of Francis’ more problematic financial decisions

By Nicole Winfield

October 6, 2025 at 11:57 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and...

People view photos of Israeli hostages on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, outside Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue during a vigil for the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Skokie vigil honors victims, calls for Israeli hostages to be released 2 years after Oct. 7 attacks

By Cam'ron Hardy

October 6, 2025 at 8:25 a.m.

Over 200 members and supporters of the Skokie Jewish community came together to remember the...

Photos of twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, center, who have been held hostage in Gaza since the Hamas cross-border attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, are displayed at a memorial in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sept. 25, 2025. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Oct. 7 attacks anniversary: Locals commemorate hostages, mourn Israel-Hamas war victims and hope for peace

By Angie Leventis Lourgos

October 5, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

As the two-year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war nears, its terror and devastation continue to...

Pope John Paul II in Grant Park in Chicago in October 1979. (baiduhai historical photo)

Today in Chicago History: Pope John Paul II conducts sermon by the shore in Grant Park

By Kori Rumore

October 5, 2025 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 5, according...

Armed police officers at the scene of a stabbing incident at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, Thursday Oct. 2, 2025. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

What to know about the attack at a synagogue in England on Yom Kippur

By Associated Press

October 3, 2025 at 8:43 a.m.

Two people were killed and at least three were hurt in an attack on Thursday...

An image of longtime Bethany Union Church member Chuck Diddia looms large in the church sanctuary as family members, from left, Liz Diddia, Eric Diddia, Nancy Diddia, Cheryl Diddia Bernstein and Jamie Pierce, assemble for a photo near a grand piano. Diddia, who died in Nov., is being honored by the church with a fine arts scholarship to encourage local artists. (Susan DeGrane/Daily Southtown)

Beverly church creates fine arts scholarship in memory of member who was ‘all things Bethany Union’

By Susan DeGrane

October 2, 2025 at 10:19 a.m.

Longtime Bethany Union Church member Chuck Diddia had a fine arts scholarship created in his...

Pope Leo XIV gestures as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Oct.1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be pro-life

By Associated Press

October 1, 2025 at 3:06 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the...