The Rev. Kevin Shock was elected on Nov. 1 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Allegheny Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The election took place during the synod’s annual assembly, held Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at the Blair County Convention Center. Shock was elected on ...
Free lunch offered Free lunch will be offered from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, at the Fourth Street Church of God, Fourth Street and 21st Avenue, Altoona. The menu includes chicken and dumplings, roasted vegetables, green bean casserole, dessert, punch and bottled water. ‘The Hiding Place’ on stage The Iron Bridge Dinner Theater will stage “The Hiding Place” at Grace Baptist Church, 2308 Adams Ave., Tyrone. The full dinner theatre is $48 and will be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 1 and Nov. 8. Tickets for the show only are $28 for the 2:30 p.m. matinee on Nov. 2 or the evening ...
ROME — Pope Leo XIV urged Catholic teachers on Tuesday to focus less on pre-professional outcomes and more on educating students to have rich spiritual lives and use technology in ways that keep human dignity front and center. Leo issued a set of marching orders to Catholic educators during ...
JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men covered the entrance to Jerusalem in a sea of black Thursday to protest plans to draft them into the military, singing, clapping and holding signs saying they would rather go to jail. The current draft exemption given to the ...
BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica became the world’s tallest church on Thursday after a part of its central tower was lifted into place. The masterwork of architect Antoni Gaudi now rises to 534 feet above the city, the church said in a statement. That barely ...
St. Mark’s Catholic Church, 416 Sixth Ave., Altoona, will hold its annual St. Jude Triduum with Mass at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, the first day of the Triduum. The second day of the Triduum will be Monday, Oct. 27, with Mass at 5:30 p.m., and the third day of the Triduum will be Tuesday, Oct. 28, with Mass at 5:30 p.m. Father Nelson Javier, T.O.R., will be celebrant and homilist at the masses. Triduum prayers will be prayed at each Mass followed by Veneration of the Relic of St. Jude. St. Jude is the Patron of Hopeless Cases. Trunk or treat events offered — St. John the ...
