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The department said it worked with Faith in Indiana and other community and advocacy groups to create the updated use-of-force polices.

In 2016, an Indianapolis-based faith organization launched a successful campaign to bring more funding to the mass transit system in Marion County. Shelterforce’s Miriam Axel-Lute talks with [...]

Like many other Midwestern regions, Indianapolis sprawled outward throughout the latter half of the 20th century, and its expansive transit system was gradually cut back during the same time [...]

... For instance, the Faith in Indiana project takes on racial polarization by fostering dialogue between faith communities and training clergy to shift the public conversation. ...

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigeg (D) is open to a call from area activists and faith groups for an independent prosecutor to investigate the recent fatal shooting of a black man by a South [...]

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is canceling several days of campaign events following the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in the Indiana town where he serves [...]

During the past six weeks, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis has been strengthening the foundation for their latest program, the Catholic Accompaniment and Reflection Experience, or CARE. ... The [...]

Indiana– Vice President Mike Pence often describes his conservative religious views as “Hoosier values.” It’s a consistent narrative in a state that, with the exception of [...]

Bishop George Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, presents at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice, in Crystal City, Virginia. (Courtesy of Jeff Peak/Creighton University Schlegel Center for Service [...]

September 12, 2018 | Jason Moon  Hope Magazine – “We have the power to do something about this. I definitely believe we are making a difference,” said Sister Tracey Horan, pausing [...]

River of Life Church, Gary IN This morning I drove over to River of Life Church in Gary IN, where a group called Faith In Indiana was holding a clergy summit to talk about immigration, criminal [...]

Jessica Inholt, 28, was arrested in August 2014 and charged with conspiracy to commit dealing heroin. She had wrestled with addiction for years, but had never been to prison before. After her [...]

I can still picture it: my teacher Gato (so dubbed because his eyes were two different colors, “like a cat,” he said) and me hunched over an article in a small booth-like classroom at [...]

WASHINGTON – When forty Catholics holding rosaries were handcuffed and led away by police at the U.S. Capitol in late February during a protest to show support for young undocumented [...]

The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than any other country and a majority of these women are mothers. Most women who are incarcerated are separated from their children, but a unique [...]

Pastor John Girton Jr. speaks during a Faith In Indiana vigil remembering Aaron Bailey, and praying for the termination of the officers involved in his death. (Lauren Chapman/IPB News) Religious [...]

El súbito arresto por ICE el pasado mes de Erika y su esposo Jesus, ha movilizado a la comunidad de fe para impedir la separación familiar con sus dos hijos ciudadanos El arzobispo de [...]

After her check-in, Erika Fierro holds back tears while praying with her pastor, Father Larry Janezic. (Lauren Chapman/IPB News) Erika Fierro immigrated to the U.S. when she was 5-years-old and [...]

Archbishop Charles Thompson delivers a homily at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis last year. Thompson is among a group of clergy who planned to accompany an immigrant mother to her [...]

By one estimate, only 6 percent of American high-school seniors will play college football and Edwin Jackson of Westlake High School in Atlanta was a walk-on at Georgia Southern University. [...]