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A Bible sits in a hotel room nightstand open drawer.

Fewer hotels offering Bibles

A Bible sits in a hotel room nightstand open drawer.

December 10, 2016, 6:04am Churches & Religion

When the Moxy Hotel opens in San Diego next year, the rooms will be stocked with the usual amenities — alarm clocks, hair dryers, writing desks and televisions. Read story

Muslim-owned diner reaches out

December 10, 2016, 6:04am Churches & Religion

The London restaurant’s offer started with a simple note, handwritten on a sheet of white paper. Read story

Jared Witt, left, and Aaron Schmalzle, co-founders of Castle Church Brewing Community, hoist some micro-brewed beers outside Schmalzle&#039;s Kissimmee, Fla. home. They plan to open a brew pub in downtown Orlando in coalition with their Lutheran faith. (Stephen M.

Lutheran church founders aim to sing hymns in the taproom

Jared Witt, left, and Aaron Schmalzle, co-founders of Castle Church Brewing Community, hoist some micro-brewed beers outside Schmalzle&#039;s Kissimmee, Fla. home. They plan to open a brew pub in downtown Orlando in coalition with their Lutheran faith. (Stephen M.

December 3, 2016, 6:00am Churches & Religion

A couple of years ago, beer lovers converged each month in Aaron Schmalzle’s garage in Kissimmee, Fla., expecting only to mash, boil and brew. Read story

Share Deputy Director Amy Reynolds, left, talks with parishioner Deb Stavig in one of the four rooms under renovation for the Women&#039;s Housing and Transition, or WHAT, shelter at St. Luke&#039;s Episcopal Church.

St. Luke’s readies shelter for homeless women

Share Deputy Director Amy Reynolds, left, talks with parishioner Deb Stavig in one of the four rooms under renovation for the Women&#039;s Housing and Transition, or WHAT, shelter at St. Luke&#039;s Episcopal Church.

December 1, 2016, 9:03pm Churches & Religion

Share aims to open a women’s homeless shelter, called Women’s Housing and Transition, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in west Vancouver later this month. Read story

Cohen: Bard of modern Judaism

November 26, 2016, 5:55am Churches & Religion

How many of us, when we think of King David, hum the words, “I heard there was a sacred chord”? How many recall Sampson in the words, “She broke your throne, and she cut your hair”? Read story

Figuring out how to work with a space that had a balcony and an upper mezzanine -- which eventually became the second and third floors in the new units -- was a long process in the construction of the Sanctuary condos in Washington.

Church to condo conversions face challenges

Figuring out how to work with a space that had a balcony and an upper mezzanine -- which eventually became the second and third floors in the new units -- was a long process in the construction of the Sanctuary condos in Washington.

November 26, 2016, 5:30am Churches & Religion

It looks ancient, but the formidable stone church in Washington has, in its own way, kept up with the times. Read story

Vancouver churches host AIDS day event

November 25, 2016, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Vancouver Heights United Methodist Church and Metropolitan Community Church of the Gentle Shepherd will recognize World AIDS Day by holding an event 7 p.m. Wednesday. The church is at 5701 MacArthur Blvd. in Vancouver. Read story

Members of the Guru Ramdass Sikh temple in Vancouver perform a prayer during the Interfaith Service of Thanksgiving on Wednesday evening at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Vancouver.

Annual interfaith holiday service draws 200

Members of the Guru Ramdass Sikh temple in Vancouver perform a prayer during the Interfaith Service of Thanksgiving on Wednesday evening at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Vancouver.

November 24, 2016, 7:54pm Churches & Religion

Religious ritual cannot substitute for the hard work of building a better world. Read story

Europe’s Jews are divided on Trump

November 23, 2016, 1:32pm Churches & Religion

The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has provoked a “mixed reaction” among European Jews, said Pinchas Goldschmidt, chief rabbi of Moscow and the current president of the Conference of European Rabbis, the primary Orthodox rabbinical alliance in Europe. Read story

Pope extends permission on abortion forgiveness

November 21, 2016, 10:17am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis is allowing all priests to absolve the faithful of the “grave sin” of abortion, extending indefinitely the special permission he had granted for the duration of the just-ended Holy Year of Mercy. Read story