Peter Smith | Associated Press

In Pennsylvania, Catholic voters will likely comprise at least a quarter of the electorate — and thus play a pivotal role in deciding the overall outcome.

Republican campaigners see the Amish as receptive to GOP talking points — smaller government, less regulation, religious freedom. Only a small minority vote in elections.

This October, Pittsburgh Jews are facing the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, as well as the six-year anniversary of the Tree of Life synagogue attack.

Rowe, who leads two small dioceses along Lake Erie, will succeed Bishop Michael Curry, the first African American to hold the position, when Curry’s nine-year term ends on Nov. 1.

In the design, a walkway leads visitors into garden memorial at the Tree of Life synagogue with 11 sculpted forms of open books, each representing one of the victims.

The gunman who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers has been formally sentenced to death. A federal judge imposed the sentence Thursday.

The indictments announced Friday are the latest charges in an ongoing probe that has identified 14 suspects.

More than four-and-a-half years after Robert Bowers allegedly walked into the Tree of Life synagogue and killed 11 Jewish worshipers, the guilt phase of his trial begins Tuesday morning.

Thousands of United Methodist congregations have been voting on whether to stay or quit one of the nation’s largest denominations amid intractable debates over theology and the role of LGBTQ people.

A Pennsylvania grand jury in recent months accused nine men with connections to the Jehovah’s Witnesses of child sexual abuse in what some consider the nation’s most comprehensive investigation yet into abuse within the faith.