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Tzivie Greenberg, and her daughter, Kenya, 4, light candles for the start of Passover ceremonies at a Passover Seder held Friday evening at at Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County.

Rite of remembrance: Joining a Passover Seder Friday night at Chabad Jewish Center in Vancouver

April 16, 2022, 12:41pm Churches & Religion

Tzivie Greenberg, and her daughter, Kenya, 4, light candles for the start of Passover ceremonies Friday evening as members of Clark County’s Jewish community gathered for a Passover Seder at Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County. The traditional gathering, which features food and candle lighting, marks the beginning of a… Read story

For churches hit by disasters, Easter brings promise of hope

April 15, 2022, 8:02am Churches & Religion

Easter’s message of renewal will be especially poignant this year for four U.S. congregations rebounding from disasters. Read story

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, center, gives instructions April 7 during preparations for the celebration of Jewish Passover at the Chabad Jewish Education Center in Berlin, Germany. Rabbis and Jewish organizations are working around the clock within Ukraine and other parts of Europe to make sure that Jews who remain in Ukraine and refugees who have fled are able to celebrate Passover.

Passover boosts Ukrainian refugees’ spirits

April 15, 2022, 6:05am Churches & Religion

“Good morning! Happy morning!” Rabbi Avraham Wolff exclaimed, with a big smile, as he walked into the Chabad synagogue in Odesa on a recent morning. Read story

Pope Francis hoists the Gospel book during a Chrism Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Thursday, April 14, 2022. During the mass the Pontiff blesses a token amount of oil that will be used to administer the sacraments for the year.

Pope marks Holy Thursday ahead of prison feet-washing ritual

April 14, 2022, 7:52am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis has celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica to mark Holy Thursday, hours before he was expected at an Italian prison to perform a foot-washing ritual for a dozen inmates in a gesture of humility. Read story

Volunteers prepare iftar food plates April 4 for Muslim devotees before breaking their fast on the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Karachi, Pakistan.

Fasting for Ramadan? Tips for doing it safely

April 12, 2022, 6:01am Churches & Religion

Yaz Kubba, a fitness trainer and founder of YazFit, drinks about a gallon and a half of water a day. Read story

Sana Sultani, 8, watches children's programming on television in the motel room she shares with her parents and five siblings in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, March 26, 2022. The Sultanis, one family among thousands of Afghans evacuated to the United States as the Taliban regained power last summer, moved into a duplex just in time to celebrate their first Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the U.S.

Afghan evacuees mark first U.S. Ramadan

April 9, 2022, 6:05am Churches & Religion

Sitting cross-legged on the floor as his wife and six children laid plates of fruit on a red cloth in front of him, Wolayat Khan Samadzoi watched through the open balcony door for the sliver of new moon to appear in the cloudless New Mexico sky, where the sun had… Read story

A police officer stands by during a media tour of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Three months after an armed captor took the three men hostage at the synagogue, the house of worship is reopening.

Repaired Texas synagogue reopens months after hostage crisis

April 9, 2022, 6:02am Churches & Religion

In the three months since Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three of his congregants were held at gunpoint in their Texas synagogue, new carpet has been laid in the sanctuary, the walls have been repainted, the entry retiled and new doors installed. He said it has been healing to watch. Read story

Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Pope Francis has welcomed First Nations delegations to the Vatican. They are seeking an apology for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's notorious residential schools for Indigenous children.

Pope makes historic apology to Indigenous for Canada abuses

April 1, 2022, 7:53am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis on Friday made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the “deplorable” abuses they suffered in Canada’s Catholic-run residential schools and said he hoped to visit Canada in late July to deliver the apology in person to survivors of the church’s misguided missionary zeal. Read story

The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, right, and Archbishop Stanis?aw G?decki, the head of the Polish Bishops' Conference, stand together as they meet with Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw, Poland, on March 29, 2022.

Orthodox patriarch denounces ‘atrocious invasion’ of Ukraine

March 29, 2022, 8:25am Churches & Religion

The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians on Tuesday denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an “atrocious” act that is causing enormous suffering. Read story

President of the Metis community, Cassidy Caron, speaks to the media in St. Peter's Square after their meeting with Pope Francis at The Vatican, Monday, March 28, 2022.

Canada Indigenous tell pope of abuses at residential schools

March 28, 2022, 8:43am Churches & Religion

Indigenous leaders from Canada and survivors of the country’s notorious residential schools met with Pope Francis on Monday and told him of the abuses they suffered at the hands of Catholic priests and school workers, in hopes of securing a papal apology from him and a commitment by the church… Read story