Year: 2016

Health officials briefed by 27 clergy on link between church attendance & improved health

MANSFIELD — Last week to commemorate the 2016 National Family Health History Day, twenty-seven area pastors from Richland County, Ohio sent a correspondence to health care stakeholders in North Central Ohio regarding a case study involving disease prevention.  The twenty-year study, conducted by Harvard University, concluded that an effective way to prevent disease

102 Ohio clergy advise local schools to defy Obama restroom mandate

MANSFIELD — Under a less than modest mandate, female students may soon see adolescent boys staring at them in their restroom mirrors at school. To combat political correctness gone amuck, the local faith community is telling school officials to stall. Clergy representing over one hundred diverse congregations recently sent a

24 Richland County clergy endorse Ted Cruz for 2016 presidential primary

MANSFIELD – Twenty-four pastors in Richland County endorsed Texas Senator Ted Cruz as their choice as president, days before Ohio’s primary election. Amie Mutti, Richland County chairperson for the Cruz Grassroots Effort, said the endorsement was part of a larger campaign in which clergymen from across the county wrote a letter citing

Regional coverage of 2016 National Day of Prayer in Richland County

RICHLAND COUNTY, OHIO — This past month community-wide events for the National Day of Prayer occurred across the county on the first Thursday in May.  The theme Bible verse this year was from Isaiah 58:1 “Shout it aloud, do not hold back, raise your voice like a shofar.”  A synopsis

36 area clergy tell local business psychic reading is ‘consumer fraud’

Editor’s note: This article is part of our “Time Capsule Series” that includes a cache of past stories that previously were not told. LEXINGTON –Area clergy are warning a business about its nefarious activities and hoping the local fruit farm bears good fruit and not bad fruit. Three days before