IOWA CITY — The Rev. Steve Witt has been a husband and a father. Now he’s a father, as in black shirt and white collar. Newly ordained in the Davenport Diocese of the Catholic Church, Witt’s experiences with marriage, parenting and losing a spouse are unusual in a field where most priests choose the celibate [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Hundreds of people gathered at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Sunday to mark the end of a month of fasting. Eid al-Fitr is celebrated at the close of Ramadan, a 30-day period in which Muslims abstain from eating and drinking between sunrise and sunset. Timothy Hyatt, public relations committee co-chair for [...]

More than a year after a Marion congregation narrowly rejected a move to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination has removed the church and its pastor from its rosters.  The Southeast Iowa ELCA synod, based in Iowa City, moved in April to remove St. Mark’s Faith and Life Center, [...]