Christianity
Gateway Church Opens New Campus in Texas’ Largest Prison
Texas megachurch, Gateway, hopes to show inmates God is there for them. The largest church to exist in Dallas-Fort Worth area is none other than Gateway…
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Islam
Muslim Serving Life Sentence for 9/11 Bombing Sues U.S. Prison System
Ajaj is serving a sentence of 114 years for the crime. The United States' federal prison system and the U.S. Government are being sued by Ahmad…
Christianity
Hillsong Pastor Carl Lentz Defends John Gray Meeting With Trump
The Relentless Church pastor was invited by Trump to the White House along with other faith leaders to discuss prison reform. Carl Lentz has come to…
Religion News
North Carolina Prisons Must Recognize Humanism as a Faith Group
The prison authorities must provide humanists the needed space and time to practice their faith. A federal judge, Terrence Boyle, has ruled the prison system of…
Islam
New Head of C.I.A. Tortured Muslims and Destroyed Files
President Donald Trump’s nomination for director of C.I.A. is linked with a dark history Tuesday was a busy day for President Trump’s national security group. Rex…
Judaism
Nazi Auschwitz Accountant Has Died
“Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” dies in the hospital before serving his four-year sentence. “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” and former SS guard from the Nazi regime, Oskar Groening died[/tweetit]…
Agnosticism
Faith in Recovery Pt. 10: Faith and Addiction in Prison
Are Prison Drug Rehab Programs More Effective with Religion? “You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its…
WRN Editorial Staff
Sep 27, 2017
Baptist
Religious Services Now Being Held in OH and WV Prisons for Pagans, Wiccans, & Satanists
Supreme Court review of the matter in 2005 sees no reason to stop religious services in prisons; Druid priestess sees positive changes in inmates. Jail administrations…
Catholicism
Man Goes from Homeless to A Priest Serving the Poor
One man’s journey from homelessness and drug addiction to becoming a priest and helping those on the streets. Claude Paradis, who was a desperate homeless and…
Mormonism
LDS Church Releases Journal of 19th-Century Mormon Leader George Q. Cannon
Church Historian’s Press has released all volumes of Mormon Leader George Q. Cannon’s Journal online. According to the director of publications for the LDS Church History…
Bahá'í Faith
4 Bahai’s Imprisoned for Educating Youth Released from Iran Prison
After four years of imprisonment for educating Baha’is, four faculty members of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) were finally released. In May 2011, a…
Issues
AZ Inmates Win Status to Fight for Native Hawaiian Religion
Stating their religion is vital to their rehabilitation, prisoners in AZ have filed a class-action lawsuit. A few days ago, the Judge Leslie Kobayashi awarded over…