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Visiting preacher Lisa Saunders, center, leads a prayer in January at the McLoughlin Heights Church of God in Vancouver. This was moments after news broke about the death of basketball star Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash.

McLoughlin Heights Church of God seeks new direction, rejuvenation

Visiting preacher Lisa Saunders, center, leads a prayer in January at the McLoughlin Heights Church of God in Vancouver. This was moments after news broke about the death of basketball star Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash.

February 16, 2020, 6:02am Churches & Religion

Brothers and sisters, today we’ve got a “special.” Read story

Karen Diefendorf, second from right, director of Chaplain Services at Tyson Foods, talks with employees in 2018 at the company&#039;s Berry Street poultry plant in Springdale, Ark. The company deploys a team of more than 90 chaplains to comfort and counsel employees at its plants and offices. The program began in 2000.

Firms boost faith-based support for employees

Karen Diefendorf, second from right, director of Chaplain Services at Tyson Foods, talks with employees in 2018 at the company&#039;s Berry Street poultry plant in Springdale, Ark. The company deploys a team of more than 90 chaplains to comfort and counsel employees at its plants and offices. The program began in 2000.

February 15, 2020, 6:05am Churches & Religion

It has become standard practice for U.S. corporations to assure employees of support regardless of their race, gender or sexual orientation. There’s now an intensifying push to ensure that companies are similarly supportive and inclusive when it comes to employees’ religious beliefs. Read story

Synagogue pulls together after vandalism

February 10, 2020, 10:19am Churches & Religion

When vandals struck Walla Walla’s Congregation Beth Israel in December, members weren’t sure whether it was an act of anti-Semitism. More than a month later, people are learning to deal with it. Read story

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks as supporters wave lighted signs during a fundraiser for the Nevada Democratic Party in Las Vegas. During the 2020 campaign, Sanders, who&#039;s known more for eschewing organized religion than embracing his Jewishness, has shifted the way he talks about his faith and tied it to his broader worldview.

Bernie Sanders defines Jewish identity his way

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks as supporters wave lighted signs during a fundraiser for the Nevada Democratic Party in Las Vegas. During the 2020 campaign, Sanders, who&#039;s known more for eschewing organized religion than embracing his Jewishness, has shifted the way he talks about his faith and tied it to his broader worldview.

February 8, 2020, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Bernie Sanders is approaching the primary season in a position to become the first major-party Jewish presidential nominee in the nation’s history. And at a time of resurgent anti-Semitism, he’s talking in more depth about how his faith shapes his broader worldview. Read story

A Christ statue overlooks El Alto, a city adjoining the capital city La Paz, Bolivia. Ancestral indigenous practices became more visible during the presidency of Evo Morales, who recognized the Andean earth deity Pachamama.

Bible vs. indigenous beliefs at issue in Bolivia

A Christ statue overlooks El Alto, a city adjoining the capital city La Paz, Bolivia. Ancestral indigenous practices became more visible during the presidency of Evo Morales, who recognized the Andean earth deity Pachamama.

February 1, 2020, 6:05am Churches & Religion

Hoisting a large leather Bible above her head, Bolivia’s new interim president delivered an emphatic message hours after Evo Morales fled under pressure, the end of a nearly 14-year presidency that celebrated the country’s indigenous religious beliefs like never before. Read story

FBI raids Los Angeles church to make immigration fraud bust

January 29, 2020, 8:59am Churches & Religion

Federal agents raided a Philippines-based church in Los Angeles Wednesday in a human trafficking investigation that led to arrests of three church leaders in what prosecutors said was a decades-long scheme to trick followers into becoming fundraisers and arrange sham marriages to keep them in the U.S. Read story

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2014 file photo, Pope Francis, right, hugs Pope Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter&#039;s Square at the Vatican. Retired Pope Benedict XVI has broken his silence to reaffirm the value of priestly celibacy, co-authoring a bombshell book at the precise moment that Pope Francis is weighing whether to allow married men to be ordained to address the Catholic priest shortage.

Cardinal at center of ‘two popes’ storm doubles down on celibacy

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2014 file photo, Pope Francis, right, hugs Pope Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter&#039;s Square at the Vatican. Retired Pope Benedict XVI has broken his silence to reaffirm the value of priestly celibacy, co-authoring a bombshell book at the precise moment that Pope Francis is weighing whether to allow married men to be ordained to address the Catholic priest shortage.

January 27, 2020, 6:22pm Churches & Religion

A Vatican cardinal at the center of a storm over a book about celibacy and the Catholic priesthood is denouncing the “brutality” of criticism directed at him and his collaborator, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI. Read story

In this Jan. 14, 2020 photo, Ana Lucia Salazar shows a photo of herself when she was 8-years-old, on her smart phone during an interview with the Associated Press in Mexico City. At the time Salazar says she was sexually abused by a Legion of Christ priest.

10 years after Vatican reform, Legion in new abuse crisis

In this Jan. 14, 2020 photo, Ana Lucia Salazar shows a photo of herself when she was 8-years-old, on her smart phone during an interview with the Associated Press in Mexico City. At the time Salazar says she was sexually abused by a Legion of Christ priest.

January 26, 2020, 2:45pm Churches & Religion

The administrator of the elite Catholic school in Cancun, Mexico, used to take the girls out of class and send them to the chapel, where the priest from the Legion of Christ religious order would sexually abuse them. Read story

Guests of the Sunrise Springs Spa in Santa Fe, N.M., stroll through the walking paths in the design of a medicine wheel, a sacred Native American symbol.

Sacred Sante Fe spa stellar for spirituality

Guests of the Sunrise Springs Spa in Santa Fe, N.M., stroll through the walking paths in the design of a medicine wheel, a sacred Native American symbol.

January 25, 2020, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Before flying to my Santa Fe, N.M., resort, I received a list of at least 20 activities available during my stay. Yoga Nidra. Zen Qi Flow. Sound Healing Journey. Meditation in Motion. Temazcal Sweat Lodge. Petroglyph Art Hike. Awakening the Elements Within. Chicken Chats. Read story

A child walks in front of Pope Francis during the weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020.

Vatican rejoins financial intelligence network after raid

A child walks in front of Pope Francis during the weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020.

January 23, 2020, 9:28am Churches & Religion

A global network of financial intelligence units has readmitted the Holy See after a two-month suspension sparked by a Vatican police raid on the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency. Read story