ROCK ISLAND -- The story of creation is told in Genesis. The story about the creation of a prison ministry program is told by Jana Minor. The stories are closely related. Mrs. Minor of Batavia will ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal appeals court said Monday that the state of Iowa cannot fund an evangelical Christian prison ministry program because it advanced or endorsed religion and therefore ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An evangelical Christian prison ministry program in Iowa should be allowed to continue because it succeeds at modifying inmate behavior and reducing recidivism, an attorney for the ...

Before he ever stepped foot inside a prison, Randolph Boardman spent decades trying to keep people out of them. The longtime educator and administrator worked with troubled youth in Wisconsin and ...

Kairos Prison Ministry is seeking volunteers for its next weekend mission in October at the St. Marys Correctional Center. Here participants are in a past program at the correctional center. (Photo ...

Call it a New Year’s resolution, divine intervention, or even an epiphany, but on what he thought was a typical New Year’s Eve, Fred Mesch’s life changed and with it so did the lives of others. Mesch ...

SÃO PAULO – A prison ministry program run by the Brazilian bishops has joined a national camapign to oppose efforts by the administration of leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to provide ...