Elmer Hoelscher, 94, of Westphalia, died Thursday, January 23, 2025 in a Temple Hospital. Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday in the Church of the Visitation in Westphalia. Father Darrell ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before receiving the ...

Native American Church members in Texas have long used peyote in prayer and during religious ceremonies. But believers and academics now say there's a shortage of the bluish-green plant ...

Nelson was convicted by a jury in October 2012 of capital murder for killing Clinton Dobson, a pastor, in an Arlington, Texas, church during a robbery of the place of worship on March 3 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the US this year ...

The Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, was murdered in 2011 during a robbery at Northpointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. Steven Nelson, who confessed to participating in the robbery but claimed his ...

DALLAS — The Texas Supreme Court Wednesday heard a case that could determine whether or not SMU can sever ties with the United Methodist Church. The case stems from a lawsuit the United ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this ...

Southern Methodist University and United Methodist Church have been in a legal battle over the university's authority since 2019. In a bid to sever ties with the United Methodist Church, Southern ...

FILE – Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012. (AP ...