CHARLESTON 鈥� After a three-day delay, the West Virginia Senate approved Friday a bill to allow parents and guardians to cite religious or philosophical concerns to get out of the state鈥檚 mandatory immunization requirements for school-age children, but not without bipartisan ...
WHEELING 鈥� A special collection has been approved for all parishes and missions throughout the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston to support recovery efforts related to severe flooding in West Virginia. Several counties have experienced generational flooding resulting in loss of life, property ...
PASADENA, California (AP) 鈥� All that remains of Masjid Al-Taqwa is a sign that bears its name. The mosque in Altadena, which served a tight-knit Muslim community for 42 years, burned to the ground in one of the Los Angeles area's deadliest fires in January 鈥� leaving the congregation ...
MEALS * Mardi Gras Pancake Dinner PARKERSBURG 鈥� The Stout Memorial United Methodist Church Missions team will host a Mardi Gras Pancake Dinner from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, in the Family Life Center (gym) of the church at 3329 Broad St., Parkersburg, down the street from the ...
CHARLESTON 鈥� On the eve of the vote in the West Virginia Senate scheduled today on whether to grant broad religious and philosophical exemptions for the state鈥檚 school-age mandatory immunization program, two Republican state senators from the same district 鈥� both Catholics 鈥� are on ...
ROME (AP) 鈥� Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis for 20 minutes in the hospital Wednesday and reported he was "alert and responsive" and full of good humor, despite his diagnosis of pneumonia and a complicated bronchial infection that has sidelined the 88-year-old pontiff for ...
