In focus: World Food Day, letter to young people, Parkland school shooting sentence, legalizing marijuana use in Missouri
National/World news briefs: Oct. 17, 2022
Missouri could become first state where no abortions can be performed
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has told Planned Parenthood officials it will not renew the facility’s license expiring May 31 unless the clinic makes changes to comply with various state health regulations.
Bishop ‘profoundly saddened’ by deaths, damage from Midwest storms
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee May 24 called for “prayers for the victims and their grieving families and communities” affected by devastating storms from Texas to Illinois.
Lutheran playground case before court zeros in on religious liberty
When the U.S. Supreme Court looks at a Lutheran preschool playground case April 19, it will go far beyond settling a schoolyard squabble and step into religious liberty turf.