Sandi Villarreal's News Clips
Medill News Service
On Sunday afternoon, Trita Parsi stood at the pulpit in the chapel of St. Pauls United Church of Christ in Lincoln Park and gave churchgoers the history of U.S.-Iran relations. Parsi, president of the National Iranian-American Council, was lecturing on avoiding war with Iran and strongly advocating diplomacy.
For the second time, Adalberto United Methodist Church in Humboldt Park is in the middle of the immigration debate after offering sanctuary to an illegal immigrant.
Flor Crisostomo, who left her three children in Mexico seven years ago to seek better wages, was arrested in a 2006 raid at IFCO Systems on the Chicago's South Side. She was supposed to report for deportation Monday. Instead, she asked the church for help.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has news for you: You are not alone.
Forty-four percent of adult Americans have switched religions at least once in their lifetime, according to a new comprehensive religion study on religious affiliation in the United States.
In "Faithful Citizenship," a voting guide for parishioners, U.S. Catholic bishops urge voting with a well-formed conscience and to refrain from voting for candidates who support an "intrinsic evil" such as abortion, euthanasia and harvesting of embryonic stem cells.
Who would Jesus vote for?
When Christian magazine Relevant asked its young evangelical readers that question, it spawned an interesting response: Barack Obama beat out Baptist minister Mike Huckabee, 28 percent to 24 percent.
On Thanksgiving Day 2004, William McCarthy had a hard time finding much to be thankful for. As in years past, he could have reflected on his loving family, his successful company--his happiness.
A group of about 15 anti-war protesters barely fit inside the small lobby of U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel's Chicago office Friday. They arrived armed with four dozen white roses, 8-by-10 photographs of Americans and Iraqis killed during the war, and loud voices.
Wearing sackcloth, a small group of protesters read a prayer, then placed stacks of paper listing American and Iraqis who have died in the current conflict. Then, they rubbed the ashes from the fire on the each other's foreheads, calling it their sign of repentance.
Even before moving to Chicago's North Side last fall, Jennie Kuckertz knew that she wanted to join Loyola University’s Right to Life organization. She is now vice president of the group and is taking her anti-abortion activism to Washington, D.C., this weekend for the annual for Life This year marks the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.