“If you have four-wheel drive, don’t think you’re invincible,” said Carlson, whose school in Moorhead is just across the state line from famously snowy Fargo, North Dakota. “We have that problem up here — people who have four-wheel drive think they can do whatever they want.”
“The challenge for the new pope is to continue Francis’ legacy of reaching out to a group who has felt excluded from their own church,” Martin said. “Based on the synod, I would say that many cardinals feel that there needs to be welcome of LGBTQ+ people because they know their dioceses. But how far that goes is up in the air.”Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda, and Giovanna Dell’Orto in Vatican City contributed.
Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’swith The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.OLAIMUTIAI, Kenya (AP) — In the bracing morning cold in the forest highlands overlooking Kenya’s Maasailand,
or blankets line up for a cup of hot milk that will sustain them through the day.In spite of the cold, they have been sleeping on the forest floor. They have gone hungry. And they haven’t bathed in a month.
It’s all part of learning to be a Maasai warrior.
They have traveled to Olaimutiai in Kenya’s Narok county from all over the Maasai ancestral lands in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. All 900 were handpicked to take part in a Maasai warrior training camp, which only happens every 10 to 15 years. It teaches Maasai cultural values, leadership skills — and how to be tough.“I think in many respects dealing with racism, addressing racism responsibly, is kind of like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, right?” he said. “As soon as you think you’re done, you’re not. You have to go back and start painting again.”
This story is part of an AP ongoing series exploring theof what is widely called the
, which was sparked a decade ago by the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri.The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.