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Animal chaplains offer spiritual care for every species

Mar. 25, 2024 18:26 PM EDT

(RNS) — Sarah Bowen says she’s been doing the work of an animal chaplain since she was 6 years old. Raised in the Midwest as a Presbyterian preacher’s kid, she was often hauled to hospice facilities and funeral homes but noticed that the chipmunks and other animals crumpled by...

A Gaza family uprooted by war and grieving their losses shares a somber Ramadan meal in a tent

Mar. 12, 2024 07:06 AM EDT

MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — It was a somber scene as Randa Baker and her family sat on the ground in their tent in southern Gaza at sunset Monday for their meal breaking their first day of fasting in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Three of her children were largely silent as Baker...

Alabama IVF patients describe heartbreak, anger after ruling

Feb. 27, 2024 20:50 PM EST

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Tory Beasley had dreamed of having three kids, and she and her husband turned to IVF after struggling with infertility. She was scheduled for an embryo transfer next week at an Alabama fertility clinic in the hopes of having a dreamed-of second child. The...

2 officers, 1 first responder killed at the scene of a domestic call in Minnesota; suspect dead

Feb. 18, 2024 22:20 PM EST

BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — A man armed with multiple guns and large amounts of ammunition shot at police officers from inside a suburban Minneapolis home that was filled with children on Sunday, killing two officers and a firefighter who was providing medical aid to one of the wounded, authorities...