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Prayer Breakfast event set for Friday morning

October 10, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

Community members are invited to attend the Clark County's 13th annual Mayors' & Civic Leaders' Prayer Breakfast next week. Read story

Christian rapper Lecrae performs July 19 at the Rock the Island Christian Music Festival on Ojibway Island, in Saginaw, Mich.

Lecrae straddles rap, Christian genres

Christian rapper Lecrae performs July 19 at the Rock the Island Christian Music Festival on Ojibway Island, in Saginaw, Mich.

October 10, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

ATLANTA -- Lecrae is dubbed a Christian rapper, but he considers himself a rapper who happens to be Christian. Read story

Pope Francis is greeted Friday by lay members as he arrives for an afternoon session of a two-week synod on family issues, at the Vatican. Gay rights groups are cautiously cheering a shift in tone from the Catholic Church toward homosexuals, encouraged that Pope Francis' famous &quot;Who am I to judge?&quot; position has filtered down to bishops debating family issues at a Vatican meeting this week.

Gay rights groups hail new Catholic tone

Pope Francis is greeted Friday by lay members as he arrives for an afternoon session of a two-week synod on family issues, at the Vatican. Gay rights groups are cautiously cheering a shift in tone from the Catholic Church toward homosexuals, encouraged that Pope Francis' famous &quot;Who am I to judge?&quot; position has filtered down to bishops debating family issues at a Vatican meeting this week.

October 9, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

VATICAN CITY — Gay rights groups are cautiously cheering a shift in tone from the Catholic Church toward homosexuals, encouraged that Pope Francis' famous "Who am I to judge?" position has filtered down to bishops debating family issues at a Vatican meeting this week. Read story

Faith group plans forum on 17th District races

October 7, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

The Faith Action Network, which is a faith-based organization that lobbies the state Legislature, will host a candidate forum from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Oct. 30 in the large conference room at the Cascade Park Community Library, located at 600 N.E. 136th Ave. in Vancouver. Read story

Pope Francis holds up a copy of the Gospel on Sunday during the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Pope to bishops: Be creative about families’ needs

Pope Francis holds up a copy of the Gospel on Sunday during the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

October 4, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has called for a creative, humble approach as the Vatican ponders why many in the Catholic Church have gone their own way on sexual and family issues like contraception, pre-marital sex and divorce. Read story

Michael Mencer holds a cross with a lock of hair of the Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich during a beatification ceremony for the nun at Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, in Newark, N.J. Demjanovich, who died in 1927 at age 26, is credited with curing Mencer's eye disease as a boy when he was given a lock of the nun's hair and prayed to her. The ceremony moves Demjanovich a step closer to sainthood with her beatification as it is the third in a four-step process.

N.J. nun named Blessed, credited with miracle

Michael Mencer holds a cross with a lock of hair of the Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich during a beatification ceremony for the nun at Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, in Newark, N.J. Demjanovich, who died in 1927 at age 26, is credited with curing Mencer's eye disease as a boy when he was given a lock of the nun's hair and prayed to her. The ceremony moves Demjanovich a step closer to sainthood with her beatification as it is the third in a four-step process.

October 4, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

NEWARK, N.J. -- A New Jersey nun credited with curing a boy's eye disease moved a step closer to sainthood Saturday in what church officials said was the first beatification Mass held in the United States. Read story

People fill their seats in the Conference Center before the start of opening session of the two-day Mormon church conference Saturday in Salt Lake City.

Mormon leader reiterates gay-marriage opposition

People fill their seats in the Conference Center before the start of opening session of the two-day Mormon church conference Saturday in Salt Lake City.

October 3, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

SALT LAKE CITY --A high-ranking Mormon leader reiterated the church's opposition to gay marriage Saturday, but he urged members to be gracious toward those who believe differently. Read story

Cardinal Walter Kasper: &quot;God gives us a new chance.&quot;

In face of storm, Pope mulls mercy for divorced

Cardinal Walter Kasper: &quot;God gives us a new chance.&quot;

October 3, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

VATICAN CITY -- From his stylish living room overlooking St. Peter's Square, Cardinal Walter Kasper doesn't come off as a figure at the center of one of the greatest storms swirling in Catholicism in decades. Read story

Flowers bloom in front of the Salt Lake Temple in Temple Square in Salt Lake City.

Mormon church’s international mark on display at conference

Flowers bloom in front of the Salt Lake Temple in Temple Square in Salt Lake City.

October 3, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

SALT LAKE CITY -- The expanding international footprint of the Mormon church will be on display this weekend during a biannual conference that brings 100,000 church members to Salt Lake City to listen to words of guidance and inspiration from the faith's leaders. Read story

Satanists want to give out materials in Florida schools

October 3, 2014, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A religious group called The Satanic Temple is making plans to hand out literature in Florida's Orange County Public Schools later this school year, following distributions by atheist and evangelical Christian groups. Read story