December 10, 2023, 6:02am Churches & Religion
The white-bearded Christian saint whose acts of generosity inspired America’s secular Santa Claus figure is known worldwide — but Saint Nicholas’ origin story is not. Read story
December 10, 2023, 6:00am Churches & Religion
For more than a decade, Ellie Hidalgo has been campaigning to expand the role of women in the Catholic Church. Read story
December 9, 2023, 6:04am Churches & Religion
This past spring, Rabbi Daniel Weiner confronted hateful graffiti on his Capitol Hill synagogue, Temple De Hirsch Sinai — again. Read story
December 9, 2023, 6:00am Churches & Religion
Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black rock shores that glisten under the Pacific’s pristine waters. Read story
December 7, 2023, 7:20pm Churches & Religion
The Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County hosted Thursday evening’s Hanukkah celebration in downtown Vancouver’s Esther Short Park. The event included a menorah-lighting ceremony. Read story
December 6, 2023, 9:37am Churches & Religion
A new guide from the Department of Homeland Security released Wednesday aims to help churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship protect themselves at a time of heightened tensions in faith-based communities across the country. Read story
December 4, 2023, 6:00am Churches & Religion
In a Congress filled with memes and hot takes, Rep. Greg Landsman stands out for the opposite. The freshman Democrat from Ohio speaks methodically, uttering each word only after an almost rabbinical level of contemplation — which is fitting for someone with a master’s in theological studies from the Harvard… Read story
December 2, 2023, 6:04am Churches & Religion
Jehovah’s Witnesses are well-known for proselytizing door-to-door and handing out their literature on city streets. Less known to the general public, their adherents have been required for the past century to make regular reports to their congregation’s leaders on how many hours they put into such ministry. Read story
December 2, 2023, 6:01am Churches & Religion
also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. Read story
November 29, 2023, 8:25am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis presided at his weekly audience with the public at the Vatican, but he said that he’s still unwell and asked an aide to read his remarks for him on Wednesday, a day after canceling an overseas trip. Read story
