Churches & Religion

Keynote speaker Larry Whittlesey with the US Mission Network orates during the annual Clark County Prayer Breakfast. Whittlesey encouraged those in attendance to work for the betterment of their communities.

Portland native at prayer breakfast: Making a difference fulfills us

November 9, 2017, 3:20pm Churches & Religion

Larry Whittlesey has much to say about the choices we face every day and how our handling of those choices will determine whether we make a difference in our community or not. Read story

Traveling show takes look at Islamophobia

November 8, 2017, 6:03am Churches & Religion

A road show about the "Islamophobia industry" is making its final stop at a Vancouver church. Read story

Amanda Morales, 33, poses for a photograph in the sanctuary of the Holyrood Episcopal Church, the Bronx borough of New York. Morales has been living in two small rooms of the gothic church at the northern edge of Manhattan since August, shortly after immigration authorities ordered her deported to her homeland of Guatemala.

Lives of anxiety: Immigrants seek sanctuary in U.S. churches

November 6, 2017, 12:45pm Churches & Religion

Amanda Morales sees her children off to school each day from the entrance of a gothic church, but she won’t even venture onto the sidewalk for fear of what may happen if she leaves the building where she has been a virtual prisoner for more than two months. Read story

Ivan Mendoza, who was riding his bike when he stopped for a prayer, listens as Virginia La Salle, left, and Linda Crowder, center, chat with him at a pair of canopies set up for free prayers on Oct. 20.

Two women under roadside tent offer prayer to passersby

November 4, 2017, 6:05am Churches & Religion

Farm worker Ivan Mendoza is riding his bicycle down a busy central Fresno street carrying a bag of recyclables so he can “buy some milk or something” when he comes upon a sign, “Need prayer?” hanging off the side of a pop-up tent. Read story

Church for deaf finds following

November 4, 2017, 5:46am Churches & Religion

As music plays at the Fresno Deaf Church on a recent Sunday, most people in the pews sign along. The only audible voice is the one on the recording, singing a soulful, “I Can Only Imagine,” but sound isn’t needed to make the devotion of the worship evident. Read story

Mormons allow more technology, for missionaries

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2013, file photo, people walk through the halls at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. The Mormon church’s gradual embrace of the digital age for missionaries is taking another step forward as the religion doubles the missions where technology is allowed and swaps out tablets for smartphones.

The Mormon church’s gradual embrace of the digital age for missionaries took another step forward Oct. 20 as the religion announced it is nearly doubling the missions where technology is allowed and swapping out tablets for smartphones. Read story

Andy Mineo is Christian and he raps

Andy Mineo is a white Christian who raps, which presents both problems and opportunities. He possesses a necessary “wholesomeness,” as he put it in a recent phone interview, that many hip-hop fans find undesirable, but for many devout Christians, no rapper will ever be wholesome enough. Read story