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- Oct 28, 2020
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Iowans who have completed sentence for felony conviction can now vote
- Aug 13, 2020
More than 40,000 people in Iowa who have completed sentences for felony convictions have regained the right to vote and run for office because of an executive order signed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Capital punishment, immigration issues compel Iowa bishops to speak up
- Jul 8, 2020
Iowa’s Catholic bishops are taking a prominent stand on three pressing federal issues, one involving the imminent execution of four federal death-row inmates, another on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and the third on the asylum system.
Judge blocks law requiring 24-hour waiting period before getting abortion
- Jul 3, 2020
A Johnson County district court judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of the state’s new law requiring women to wait 24 hours before having an abortion, the Iowa Catholic Conference reported July 1.
Iowa bishop says pandemic should prompt release of Guatemalan detainees
- May 28, 2020
Davenport Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula has asked the chief of Homeland Security in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to release three Guatemalan immigrant detainees because the COVID-19 pandemic “places immigrants being detained in a very vulnerable situation.”
Catholic bishops from around the world urge peace talks to solve Cameroon crisis
- Feb 19, 2020
A group of international bishops, including Bishop Thomas Zinkula of Davenport, have called on Cameroon’s President Paul Biya to hold peace talks with English-speaking separatists in the majority French-speaking African country.
Bishop: Witnessing at ICE check-in is going to peripheries as pope asks
- Dec 13, 2019
Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula of Davenport, Iowa, was among 18 people who packed the reception area of a federal facility in Cedar Rapids, keeping vigil as Alejandro Guzman checked in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
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