Don Richard, a longtime deacon who performed countless baptisms, marriages and funerals at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Metairie, died Monday at his home from cancer. He was 81.

A Mississippi deacon suffered fatal injuries in a shooting that broke out Saturday after an Easter egg hunt hosted by his church, according to the church and local police. Empowerment Ministries ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) – A deacon in Mississippi was shot and killed while trying to protect children at an Easter egg hunt Saturday afternoon. Deacon Eddie Shed, who was also the head ...

“Deacon Shed was a person that was full of joy, always had a laugh; whenever you were around him, you were shook on a laugh,” church member Charlotte Taylor-Sanders said. A GoFundMe page has been ...