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Filled boxes of food for families in need sit Sunday at the Vancouver First United Methodist Church ready to be delivered Monday.

Church shows the love for needy with food boxes

Filled boxes of food for families in need sit Sunday at the Vancouver First United Methodist Church ready to be delivered Monday.

November 26, 2013, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

The reader board on the lawn at Vancouver First United Methodist Church proclaims: "We love our neighbors." Read story

Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in St.

Pope issues mission statement for papacy

Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in St.

November 25, 2013, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis issued the mission statement for his papacy Tuesday, outlining how the Catholic Church and the papacy itself must be reformed to create a more missionary and merciful church that gets its hands dirty as it seeks out the poor and oppressed. Read story

Portlanders and committed United Church of Christ members Jim McPartland, left, and Grant Edwards were wed on Nov. 9 at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Hazel Dell. The Rev.

Same-sex Oregon couples flock to Clark County to wed

Portlanders and committed United Church of Christ members Jim McPartland, left, and Grant Edwards were wed on Nov. 9 at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Hazel Dell. The Rev.

November 23, 2013, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

Portlanders Grant Edwards and Jim McPartland "waited and waited" to get married. Read story

Rabbi Abraham Skorka listens as he is interviewed at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

A rabbi’s friend: The Pope

Rabbi Abraham Skorka listens as he is interviewed at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

November 22, 2013, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

NEW YORK -- It was September, not an easy time for a religious Jew to be traveling. The Jewish month of Tishrei was ending with its marathon of holy days. Kosher wine would be needed. There were Sabbath blessings to recite. Fortunately, Rabbi Abraham Skorka had a friend with the… Read story

The Fort Vancouver National Trust is raising money to purchase the Academy building so it can renovate and preserve it.

Fundraiser to buy Academy extended

The Fort Vancouver National Trust is raising money to purchase the Academy building so it can renovate and preserve it.

November 22, 2013, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

The Fort Vancouver National Trust is getting an additional 13 months to raise funds for its purchase of Vancouver's historic Academy, through January 2015. Read story

Pope’s ambassador tells U.S. bishops to live simply

November 10, 2013, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

BALTIMORE -- The Vatican ambassador to the United States says American bishops should make Roman Catholics feel more at home in the church. Read story

Atheist student leader is OK with an Oregon Christian university

November 9, 2013, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Despite a public declaration that he's an atheist, the student body president of a Christian university in Eugene isn't in trouble with his school. Read story

Dave Richards, Fort Vancouver High School welding teacher, looks over 58 steel crosses made by his welding students.

Local events pay tribute to military veterans

Dave Richards, Fort Vancouver High School welding teacher, looks over 58 steel crosses made by his welding students.

November 7, 2013, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

The community's annual Veterans Day ceremony shifts to a new location Monday, with an 11 a.m. observance at the Armed Forces Reserve Center, 15005 N.E. 65th St. Read story

Husband and wife organists Timothy Nickel and Nancy LeRoi Nickel play a concert on Memorial Lutheran Church's pipe organ to help celebrate the church's 70th anniversary on Sunday.

Church celebrating 70 years

Husband and wife organists Timothy Nickel and Nancy LeRoi Nickel play a concert on Memorial Lutheran Church's pipe organ to help celebrate the church's 70th anniversary on Sunday.

November 3, 2013, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

The black binder on Kathy White's desk is an account of the events that have taken place at Memorial Lutheran Church in the past 70 years. Read story

Lord's Gym has closed up shop, but organizers are finding ways to keep its food services hobbling along.

Hot-lunch service to continue despite closing of Lord’s Gym

Lord's Gym has closed up shop, but organizers are finding ways to keep its food services hobbling along.

October 31, 2013, 5:00pm Churches & Religion

Lord's Gym has closed its kitchen and its doors, but there won't be any interruption in weekday hot lunch service for needy people in Vancouver's Rose Village neighborhood. Read story