Marissa Greene | Fort Worth Report

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’s church have her on speed dial, she said, for support or referrals for other kinds of professional help.

Organizers offered resources for participants to get civically engaged in their local communities after the April 19 march.

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.

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 — one focused on interfaith relationships.

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.

Of the charity’s 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.

The charity, which operates the Texas Office for Refugees, filed a notice March 10 with the Texas Workforce Commission’s Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification, also known as WARN. The federal government requires employers to give 60 calendar days’ advance notice of a mass layoff to affected employees and government entities.

Kendall Reed spends a majority of her day-to-day life on college campuses or churches, talking with students and congregants about sexual assault, abuse and how to reach out to her organization for help.

A former Southwestern Baptist Seminary employee won’t serve jail time after pleading guilty to making false statements to the FBI about an investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention and its entities.

Catholic Charities Fort Worth is accusing the federal government of unlawfully withholding more than $36 million in refugee resettlement funds, leading to staff layoffs and program cuts across Texas.

The Fort Worth couple met people sheltering inside of their vehicles or in tents at encampments under highways as temperatures Thursday night dipped into the low 30s. They talked to veterans, families and young adults, asking where they’d be sleeping and how long they’d been experiencing homelessness.

Today, Arlington Baptist University calls the hilltop home. Bryant, the wife of a pastor and former president of Arlington Baptist University, has spent the past three decades researching the school’s history,