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    Baltimore church seeks to rectify troubled past with new art
    Newly installed artwork pays homage to Baltimore’s sanctuary city status.
    BALTIMORE, MD - FEB 9, 2025: Doug Storey facilitates a children’s sermon acknowledging the lack of diverse representation in imagery inside the Govans Presbyterian Church. He asks one of the child attendees to look at the new artwork titled "Sanctuary City Part 1 and 2” that represents the growing diversity and representation of their congregation where everyone is welcome.
    Trump wants to cut humanitarian aid. These Maryland groups could suffer.
    More than 100 groups and contractors will be affected by cuts at USAID, a review by the Baltimore Banner shows.
    WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 07: A worker removes the U.S. Agency for International Development sign on their headquarters on February 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) abruptly shutdown the U.S. aid agency earlier this week leaving thousands unemployed and putting U.S. foreign diplomacy and aid programs in limbo.
    This Baltimore County church was a stop on the Underground Railroad
    A network of Baltimore County churches, residences and farms served as stops on the Underground Railroad. Yet much of this history remains overlooked.
    A crowd gathers outside Emmarts United Methodist Church after an Underground Railroad commemorative walk in Windsor Mill on Saturday.
    Another Baltimore-based global aid group faces cuts: Catholic Relief Services
    Catholic Relief Services may be the next Baltimore-based humanitarian aid group to face major cuts as the Trump administration’s DOGE slashes USAID funding.
    The Catholic Relief Services headquarters in Baltimore on Thursday, February 6, 2025.
    What to know about Maryland Supreme Court’s sweeping ruling for sex abuse lawsuits
    The Supreme Court’s ruling has implications for churches, schools and government agencies across Maryland.
    David Lorenz, center, who leads the Maryland chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, joins others in a 2022 press conference outside the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops gathering in Baltimore.
    Howard schools had 28 incidents of discrimination against Jewish students, federal investigation finds
    The U.S. Department of Education and the Howard County Public School System have reached an agreement on how to resolve antisemitic harassment in the county schools.
    At least 28 incidents of alleged antisemitic activities across Howard County Public Schools occurred during the past two academic years, according to a newly released investigation by the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
    Pope names like-minded ally Cardinal McElroy as Washington archbishop
    Pope Francis on Monday named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most progressively like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S. capital and some Maryland counties at the start of Donald Trump’s second administration.
    FILE - Newly named cardinal Robert Walter McElroy, speaks, during a press conference at the Vatican, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022.
    The rich and controversial history of Maryland’s clown ministers
    Former Columbia resident Rev. Floyd Shaffer is remembered by some as the “clown father” of Christian clown ministry, a niche form of outreach that blends liturgy with laughter.
    1973. A scrapbook that showcases Faith and Fantasy. The 3 sections of the scrapbook include clown classing and clowning in general, a Houston, Texas Lutheran youth gathering in the Astrodome, and a clown workshop at Princeton Seminary. Clippings, photographs, programs, newsletters, playscripts, postcards, publications, handwritten letters, drawings, correspondence, napkin, plastic flower, and receipt.
    As St. Pius X prepares for its last Christmas Mass, neighbors hope for a miracle
    Parishioners are preparing for their final Christmas Mass at St. Pius X in Towson, one of the last Baltimore-area churches to close its doors under the Archdiocese’s church merger plan.
    St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church has been serving the communities of north Baltimore since 1958.
    Fire destroys ‘iconic’ red shed in Station North, unsettling a community of unhoused people
    Red Shed Village’s eponymous structure burned down on Thanksgiving. The community of unhoused people who live around it, and the unusual church that supports them, is working to build back.
    The iconic red shed at the 2000 block of St. Paul Street caught on fire.
    The new Baltimore City Council’s first debate? Prayer.
    It didn’t take long for the members of the 74th Baltimore City Council — they took their oaths of office 5 hours before Thursday night’s meeting, their first — to have a big debate.
    The new Baltimore City Council's first contested vote? A pastor proposing to do away with prayers.
    What a dispute over Hanukkah lights in Howard County is really about
    It would be too simple to characterize the dispute over the Levines’ Hanukkah lights as a neighborhood squabble.
    Matt Levine walks under a tunnel of string lights he hung in celebration of the upcoming Hanukkah holiday outside of his Columbia, MD home on November 17th, 2024.
    Letter: Closing the door on the Catholic Church because of betrayal
    A former member of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Fells Point shares memories of fondness ... and dismay.
    The now-closed St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church.
    As Catholic churches merge, pews are full, but a sense of loss remains
    This mass was six months in the making, marking the merger of five parishes into one congregation.
    Mass is held on December 1st, 2024 at St. Bernardine Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore, MD following the combination of parishes around the city.
    St. Ann’s closure makes one Black Catholic reexamine ties to lifelong faith
    The closure of St. Ann’s Catholic Church has hit members of the predominantly Black congregation hard, including Ralph Moore, who is ready to leave the church altogether.
    Harriette Lowery hugs Ralph Moore before mass at St. Ann’s Church in Baltimore, Sunday, November 24, 2024.
    Many Baltimore Catholic churches are celebrating their final regular Mass. Here’s what to know.
    More than a dozen parishes in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will celebrate their final Mass this weekend, part of a yearslong process of consolidation.
    A 140th anniversary banner is fastened to the front handrail of St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church on Sunday, June 16, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
    Saying goodbye to a Catholic church — and a link to my family’s past
    There are places that become part of us, and places where part of us of remains. Corpus Christi, one of dozens of Baltimore-area Catholic parishes set to close at the end of the month, is that kind of place for my family.
    The Rev. Martin Demek prepares for the second-to-last Sunday mass at the Corpus Christi church in Baltimore on Nov. 17.
    One of the country’s few gender-affirming thrift stores is in Baltimore
    Trans and nonbinary people can struggle to find clothes that fit their bodies, their gender expression and their budget, but the Skylight Boutique is a thrift store stocked with items that are often difficult and expensive to obtain.
    Phillip Clark, a volunteer at skylight boutique, helps a customer find their size at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Baltimore on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024.
    ‘Disturbing’ Mass for Trump leaves Maryland parishioners conflicted
    Polls show a majority of white Catholics support Trump.
    Parishioners pray before Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes in Bethesda on Aug. 14, 2024.
    These Maryland women were accused of witchcraft. Their crime? Having power.
    Women who possessed special knowledge, such as midwives or herbalists, were more likely to be accused of witchcraft, as were women in need, including widows and beggars.
    An illustration depicts a woman being burned at the stake for the crime of engaging in witchcraft, circa 1692. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)
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