Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne)

Photo caption: Alexia Hernandez speaks Tuesday at the Allen County Courthouse, calling for community support for her father, Santos Hernandez, as he faces deportation proceedings. By Ashley [...]

“Our young protesters are outside,” Tutu told the crowd at Promenade Park Pavilion downtown. “You need to be out there with them.” Cookye Rutledge, a personal friend of Tutu's, opened the event, [...]

A homecoming celebration outside the Allen County sheriff's office Thursday welcomed activist-protester Jorge “George” Oliva back to Fort Wayne before he was nearly deported to Mexico, a country [...]

Jorge Oliva, an undocumented immigrant who was arrested last month and scheduled for deportation, could be home in Fort Wayne with his family as soon as today.

About 20 to 30 people on Thursday gathered outside the Allen County Courthouse to phone bank for Jorge Oliva, an undocumented immigrant who was arrested last month and scheduled for deportation, [...]

Friends and family of a Fort Wayne protester arrested and facing deportation took issue Monday with police cooperation with the federal immigration agency that is holding him.

Jorge Oliva "is now awaiting his fate at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Wisconsin, his brother Hector said, speaking for the Oliva-Romero family."

Faith in Indiana and young people identified with the Changemakers protest group who attended Mayor Tom Henry's conference Thursday on police reform came away with the impression that it was [...]

There's power in numbers, the Rev. Karen Staton of Destiny Life Center Church said.

The #WHOCARESFORUS Digital Town Hall featuring Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett called on Gov. Eric Holcomb and state legislators to end disparities in testing by setting up no-cost testing sites [...]

Area faith leaders gathered online with city and county elected officials Tuesday to push for increased access to coronavirus tests and other protections for people of color as the number of [...]

By Jamie Duffy | Fort Wayne Journal GazetteApril 15, 2020 Read the article at its source. Local Faith in Indiana leaders will join a statewide virtual prayer vigil at noon Tuesday to pray that [...]

...As a minister, I do know something about bedside manner and the need for hurting people to feel heard. In our United Methodist communion liturgy, we offer a prayer of confession in which we [...]

As a mother who has relied on Medicaid to give birth and today has children who live with severe food allergies, I am one of the millions of Americans living in a semi-permanent state of health [...]

What might an MCAT diversion program do? Give police a course of action other than jail in cases where drugs or mental health intervention would be a better solution.

The Eli Lilly Corp., based in Indianapolis, holds the patent for a popular new form of synthetic insulin it developed. The costs of all forms of insulin in the USA have tripled over the past [...]

More than 30 people trying to catch the ear of Allen County Council members stood, held hands and prayed during this morning's council meeting.

First, they prayed outside Citizens Square. Then the group of about eight people, four of them pastors, went inside to make their case to those who set Allen County's budget. Members of the Fort [...]

A local faith-based coalition affiliated with a national community organizing network turned up the heat on Fort Wayne and Allen County officials Saturday afternoon. The group was lobbying for [...]

A security employee at Rudisill Plaza threatened to call police on eight people if they followed through on their plan to enter the building and deliver an oversized birthday card and flowers to [...]