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Gisele Fetterman, left, of Braddock and Kristen Michaels of Edgewood, Pa., founded Hello Hijab, which makes hijabs for dolls.

Teaching inclusion with dolls

Gisele Fetterman, left, of Braddock and Kristen Michaels of Edgewood, Pa., founded Hello Hijab, which makes hijabs for dolls.

March 25, 2017, 6:05am Churches & Religion

Gisele Fetterman, who started the Braddock Free Store and co-founded the excess food collection service 412 Food Rescue, goes to great lengths to instill values of egalitarianism in her three young children. Read story

Recently preserved tapestries are displayed in an exhibit at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York Wednesday.

Tapestries get 16 years of cleaning

Recently preserved tapestries are displayed in an exhibit at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York Wednesday.

March 25, 2017, 6:05am Churches & Religion

Think your home furnishings are a dust magnet? New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine just spent 16 years cleaning and conserving its rare, supersize wall hangings. Read story

Trump, ACLU make unusual allies supporting Virginia mosque

March 21, 2017, 9:35am Churches & Religion

The rejection of a sewage permit in rural Virginia has made unlikely allies of the Trump administration and the American Civil Liberties Union, which both allege that a county board discriminated against Muslims trying to build a new mosque. Read story

Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community survey damaged headstones at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia. More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at the Jewish cemetery, discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said.

U.S. Muslims and Jews strengthen bonds amid acts of bigotry

Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community survey damaged headstones at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia. More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at the Jewish cemetery, discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said.

March 20, 2017, 9:20am Churches & Religion

They sat on either end of the congressmen’s couch, one a Jewish health care executive whose parents fled Germany in 1936, the other the Kashmiri Muslim chairman of a well-known American furniture chain. The men, Stanley Bergman and Farooq Kathwari, came to draw attention to an outbreak of hate crimes.… Read story

Tanya Andersen gives her son, Mark, 2, a spoonful during Bethel Lutheran Church&#039;s 100th anniversary smorgasbord lunch celebration Sunday, held in honor of the church&#039;s centennial.

Bethel Lutheran wraps up centennial celebration with smorgasbord

Tanya Andersen gives her son, Mark, 2, a spoonful during Bethel Lutheran Church&#039;s 100th anniversary smorgasbord lunch celebration Sunday, held in honor of the church&#039;s centennial.

March 19, 2017, 5:54pm Churches & Religion

BRUSH PRAIRIE -- Friends, family and congregants old and new, all packed into Bethel Lutheran Church, shared memories and Scandinavian food Sunday following the day's services, which capped off last week's celebrations of the church's centennial. Read story

Farmer Rossella Paolini, left, plants a lemon tree March 12 with her relatives in their plot of land in Tor Tre Teste neighborhood in Rome.

With pope’s blessing, squatters farm land

Farmer Rossella Paolini, left, plants a lemon tree March 12 with her relatives in their plot of land in Tor Tre Teste neighborhood in Rome.

March 18, 2017, 6:04am Churches & Religion

Dozens of families have started tilling the soil and planting their first crops as a squatters’ gardening initiative takes root on Catholic Church-owned land with the tacit blessing of Pope Francis. Read story

Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg reads the Megillah, or the story of the Book of Esther, at the Purim holiday celebration.

Jewish congregation celebrates Purim in a New York style

Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg reads the Megillah, or the story of the Book of Esther, at the Purim holiday celebration.

March 12, 2017, 10:40pm Churches & Religion

Costumed congregation members crowded the Chabad Jewish Center on Sunday to feast and be merry in celebration of the Jewish holiday Purim. Read story

Maggie Ballard and her son Paxton Burns, 6, stand in front of the &quot;Blessing Box&quot; in front of their Wichita, Kan., home. Anyone can come and take food or toiletries as needed, or leave a blessing for someone else.

Box a blessing for Kansas family

Maggie Ballard and her son Paxton Burns, 6, stand in front of the &quot;Blessing Box&quot; in front of their Wichita, Kan., home. Anyone can come and take food or toiletries as needed, or leave a blessing for someone else.

March 11, 2017, 6:05am Churches & Religion

Paxton Burns, 6, checks the big red box outside his house every morning before going to school. He checks it every night before bed, too. Read story

Pope Francis shares a light moment during his historic visit to the Anglican Church of All Saints in Rome on Feb. 26.

Pope decries Christian hypocrisy

Pope Francis shares a light moment during his historic visit to the Anglican Church of All Saints in Rome on Feb. 26.

March 11, 2017, 6:05am Churches & Religion

On a typically busy morning at the Vatican, Pope Francis spoke at least twice Thursday in ways that recognized the values of other religious outlooks while he promoted the faithful practice of Catholicism. Read story

Officer replaces rosary stolen by purse thief

March 11, 2017, 6:04am Churches & Religion

Audrey Parks was like a second mother to Sharon Cochraham. Cochraham and Parks’ daughter Ingrid were best friends from the time Cochraham was 11 years old, so Parks almost raised her. Read story