VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in aSpecial music
Concordia Theological Seminary, 6600 N. Clinton St., is hosting Music of the Christmas and Epiphany at 4 p.m. Sunday in Kramer Chapel. It will have symposia choral vespers with the Seminary Schola Cantorum at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel. A symposia vespers and organ recital will be 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the chapel.
Trinity English Lutheran Church, 405 W. Wayne St., is having a choral festival with the church’s junior and youth choirs and for the Concert Choir and Youth Chorale from the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir at 2:30 p.m. today.
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Plymouth Congregational Church, 501 W. Berry St., is hosting speaker Timothy Lake, a Wabash College associate professor, at its 28th Service of Repentance & Reconciliation, honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Huntington University, 2303 College Ave., Huntington, is hosting Keith Reynolds, Fairhaven Mennonite Church senior pastor, to present the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day address at 11:30 a.m. Monday in Zurcher Auditorium at Merillat Centre for the Arts.
The University of Saint Francis, 2701 Spring St., is hosting Lewis Pearson for the “Vatican II – Then and Now” lecture at 3 p.m. Sunday in the North Campus auditorium. Pearson’s lecture is titled “Sacrificing Truth for Comfort.”
Concordia Theological Seminary, 6600 N. Clinton St., is having a Lenten preaching workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday. For more information, call 452-2204.
A Heal the Land service will be at 12:15 p.m. Jan. 26 at 624 E. Lewis St., a Sunoco station. The service is for Ryan Turner, who died of a gunshot wound Jan. 11. He was picked up by an ambulance at the Sunoco station.
