Marissa Greene | Fort Worth Report
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Instead of going home after a long night at a Dec. 10 Fort Worth City Council meeting that gave Mercy Culture Church the green light to build a shelter for human trafficking survivors, lead pastors Landon and Heather Schott went to church.
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Tears swelled in Nancy Eder鈥檚 eyes when she found out Robert F. Prevost was elected as the Vatican鈥檚 first American pope and would take the name Leo XIV.
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Michael Brown, an elder for the Fort Worth church, was accused of misconduct toward two adult women in his North Carolina ministry.
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Judy Nguyen remembers when she first visited the Ch霉a H瓢啤ng 膼岷 Buddhist temple in southeast Fort Worth nearly a year ago. Nguyen, who lives in Georgia, fell in love with the architecture and nature around the temple.
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Tarrant County Judge Tim O鈥橦are wants Christians to know 鈥渢hat it鈥檚 OK that the government stands up and honors God.鈥
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In addition to tending to minor cuts and scratches, she and other nurses in the church are often a resource for general education on diseases. Congregants in Campbell鈥檚 church have her on speed dial, she said, for support or referrals for other kinds of professional help.
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Organizers offered resources for participants to get civically engaged in their local communities after the April 19 march.
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Tarrant County Public Health let go of some employees funded by federal grants in late March, as nationwide cuts have left health departments across the U.S. and North Texas scrambling.
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As a Muslim and board director for a Fort Worth Islamic nonprofit, El Hamad asked city leaders and residents to help him build a different kind of bridge 鈥 one focused on interfaith relationships.
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After two weeks of legal back and forth over paused federal refugee resettlement funding, Catholic Charities Fort Worth has received $47 million that has been in limbo since January, according to court records.
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Of the charity鈥檚 29 partner agencies, 24 have had to lay off staff or furlough employees, leading to a 64% drop in staffing capacity in cities like Dallas and Houston.
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The charity, which operates the Texas Office for Refugees, filed a notice March 10 with the Texas Workforce Commission鈥檚 Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification, also known as WARN. The federal government requires employers to give 60 calendar days鈥 advance notice of a mass layoff to affected employees and government entities.