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St. Paul Lutheran Church will shelter 30 homeless men nightly through the end of March as part of the Winter Hospitality Overflow program.

Vancouver churches to open their winter shelters

St. Paul Lutheran Church will shelter 30 homeless men nightly through the end of March as part of the Winter Hospitality Overflow program.

October 31, 2018, 5:52pm Churches & Religion

St. Andrew and St. Paul Lutheran churches will open their doors Thursday night to shelter homeless people for the winter. Read story

A person stands in front of Stars of David that are displayed in front of the Tree of Life Synagogue with the names of those killed in Saturday’s deadly shooting in Pittsburgh.

Clark County Jews mourn victims in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

A person stands in front of Stars of David that are displayed in front of the Tree of Life Synagogue with the names of those killed in Saturday’s deadly shooting in Pittsburgh.

October 29, 2018, 9:30pm Churches & Religion

Rabbi Elizabeth Dunsker was on her way to Congregation Kol Ami on Saturday morning when she heard on the radio about the shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Dunsker broke the news to congregants who got to synagogue early to study the Torah and hadn’t yet heard about… Read story

Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a service Oct. 11 at the Volodymysky Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine.

Birth of Ukrainian church stokes tensions

Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a service Oct. 11 at the Volodymysky Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine.

October 27, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion

The rough-looking young men brought clubs and brass knuckles to the Pechersk Monastery in Kiev, one of Orthodox Christianity’s most important pilgrimage sites, apparently seeking to disrupt worship. Police spread-eagled them against a wall decorated in faded, centuries-old frescos of solemn saints, then hauled them away. Read story

A Jewish prayer book bearing a 1922 copyright that belonged to Marilyn Monroe is being auctioned next month in New York. Greenstein & Co.

Marilyn Monroe’s siddur set for auction

A Jewish prayer book bearing a 1922 copyright that belonged to Marilyn Monroe is being auctioned next month in New York. Greenstein & Co.

October 20, 2018, 6:06am Churches & Religion

Marilyn Monroe was the woman on the screen — hardly even real, so exalted was her public image. Read story

Tauren Wells performs during the Dove Awards on Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn.

Christian artists praised at Doves

Tauren Wells performs during the Dove Awards on Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn.

October 20, 2018, 6:02am Churches & Religion

Christian artist Tauren Wells won four awards including new artist and contemporary Christian artist of the year at the 49th annual Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards. Read story

A woman holds a picture of martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday.

Pope makes El Salvador’s Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI saints

A woman holds a picture of martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday.

October 14, 2018, 10:10pm Churches & Religion

Pope Francis on Sunday praised two towering figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church as prophets who shunned wealth and looked out for the poor as he made saints of Pope Paul VI and martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. Read story

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings “America the Beautiful” during the inauguration ceremony of President Donald Trump on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C. The group is changing its name.

Mormon no more: Tabernacle Choir renamed in big church shift

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings “America the Beautiful” during the inauguration ceremony of President Donald Trump on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C. The group is changing its name.

October 13, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion

For generations it was known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Read story

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church plans expansion

October 11, 2018, 6:00am Business Briefs

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church has submitted plans to the city of Vancouver for a 9,500-square-foot expansion. Read story

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell M. Nelson, center, greets the twice-annual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders delivered spiritual guidance and church news as the faith's conference kicks off in Salt Lake City one day after the faith announced it was renaming the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir to drop the word Mormon.

Mormons to spend less time at church on Sundays, leaders say

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell M. Nelson, center, greets the twice-annual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders delivered spiritual guidance and church news as the faith's conference kicks off in Salt Lake City one day after the faith announced it was renaming the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir to drop the word Mormon.

October 6, 2018, 9:03pm Churches & Religion

Mormons will start spending less time at church each Sunday — two hours instead of three — after a change announced Saturday aimed at making worship more manageable for members around the globe. Read story

French tourists visit the church of Saint George in the village of Lukava, Czech Republic. In the year of 2012 the art student Jakub Hadrava filled the church’s pews with ghostly figures, made from plaster casts of live models draped in white cloth. The effect is chilling.

Spirit fills Czech ‘ghost church’

French tourists visit the church of Saint George in the village of Lukava, Czech Republic. In the year of 2012 the art student Jakub Hadrava filled the church’s pews with ghostly figures, made from plaster casts of live models draped in white cloth. The effect is chilling.

October 6, 2018, 6:05am Churches & Religion

A 14th-century church in the Czech Republic that was once in ruins is getting a new life from tourists who want to see the eerie visitors from beyond the grave. Read story