Category: Religion

Aurora missionaries serve in Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky, isn’t your typical missionary destination. But seven members of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Aurora headed to the home of the Kentucky Derby on Sunday for a week-long mission trip. Volunteers were Gena Gerdin and Rob Creaney, chaperones; and high school students Clodagh Creaney, Andrew Friend, Daniel Miller,

Aurora marks Pride Sunday with pancakes, worship, choir

A pancake breakfast and interfaith worship service featuring clergy from eight suburban faith communities celebrated Aurora Pride Sunday, June 8. The fourth annual Pride celebration service returned to New England Congregational Church in Aurora. More than 100 people attended. Clergy participating were: Rev. Tammy Scott, lead pastor, Wesley United Methodist,

Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, from Chicago South Side

By Beth HundsdorferCapitol News Illinoisbhundsdorfer@capitolnewsillinois.com As the red velvet curtains at the Vatican parted, a priest realized that his college pal from the South Side of Chicago that he knows as “Bob” had been elected the first American pope. “Oh, dear God,” the Very Rev. Anthony Benedetto Pizzo, the prior

Aurora Council honors Sikh Awareness and Appreciation month

By Jason Crane Mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin presented a proclamation in honor of April being national Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month at the April 15 Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting. Mayor Irvin invited members of Aurora’s Sikh community to share more about the Sikh faith and the purpose

Saint Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church celebrates 60 years

By Penny Panayiota Deligiannis In June 1964, several Aurora Hellenes met with Bishop Meletios of Chicago representing the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America to consider the facts. The requirements to establish the first Greek Orthodox Church in Aurora were met and approved by the Bishop, Illinois Secretary

Lent: Dixieland worship, drive-thru Ash Wednesday

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 27 S. Edgelawn Drive in Aurora, will open Lent with an annual Dixieland worship service, a Mardi Gras-style luncheon and Ash Wednesday services including a drive-thru imposition of ashes. The public is invited. Admission and parking are free. Sunday, March 2, a Dixieland band featuring Kristin