Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible

When the Pentagon cut roughly 180 faiths from its religious affiliation codes, shrinking the list from more than 200 ...
National Catholic Reporter

Films tell story of African American Catholics' legacy, church's ministry to Native Americans

This is a still from the recently released documentary "Trailblazers of Faith: The Legacy of African American Catholics" from the Black and Indian Mission Office in Washington. It tells the story of ...

Northeast Portland church land returned to Indigenous community for affordable elder housing

In a significant development in the global Land Back movement, the former Bethany Lutheran Church property in Northeast Portland will be returned to Indigenous stewardship with plans to create ...

‘Not a gift’: Historic Portland land return could become housing for Native elders

A song of blessing echoed through Bethany Lutheran Church on Wednesday morning as sunlight filtered through its stained-glass ...
The Christian Post on MSN

Supreme Court asked to hear religious freedom dispute over sacred Native land

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to weigh a religious freedom case involving redevelopment of a portion of a San Antonio ...
Gulf Live

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...
Sacramento Bee

Native American Church’s sacred plants destroyed during raids in CA, suit says

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is accused of destroying sacred plants belonging to an affiliate of the Native American Church in Southern California. Getty Images/iStockphoto A Native ...