April 9, 2024, 8:23am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis met Monday with relatives of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, marking the six-month anniversary of the attack in southern Israel with an hourlong audience. Read story
April 8, 2024, 7:22am Churches & Religion
The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that reject God’s plan for human life. Read story
April 7, 2024, 6:00am Churches & Religion
On a recent Sunday evening, a group of Muslim women huddled around a hot beverage dispenser. They watched as one woman mixed cardamom tea, anise seed, cinnamon, ginger and different kinds of milk. Read story
April 6, 2024, 5:07am Churches & Religion
Proudly wearing a rainbow-colored clergy stole and a rainbow flag in her clerical collar, the Rev. Elaine Saralegui welcomed all to her LGBTQ+ inclusive church in the Cuban port city of Matanzas. Read story
April 6, 2024, 5:07am Churches & Religion
For more than 125 years, Mason United Methodist Church has served a prominent role in North Tacoma’s Proctor neighborhood. Now, facing an economic shortfall coupled with a dwindling and aging congregation, its pastor has ambitious plans to raze the building and construct a mixed-use housing and community center in its… Read story
April 5, 2024, 2:46pm Churches & Religion
An international campaign to ban surrogacy received a strong endorsement Friday from the Vatican, with a top official calling for a broad-based alliance to stop the “commercialization of life.” Read story
April 3, 2024, 7:32am Churches & Religion
As hundreds of asylum-seekers faced the threat of sleeping outside Tuesday night, King County’s asylum-seeker crisis reached a new, more serious stage. Read story
April 2, 2024, 9:09am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future conclaves, in a book-length interview published Tuesday. Read story
April 1, 2024, 6:01am Churches & Religion
Metropolitan Community Church of the Gentle Shepherd is celebrating 40 years of creating a safe place of worship for the LGBTQ+ community. Read story
March 30, 2024, 6:05am Churches & Religion
In 1837, Hudson’s Bay Company Gov. George Simpson wrote to the Archdiocese of Quebec to request a Catholic mission be established in his company’s territory north of the Columbia River. Read story
