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Ephraim Barstad holds up his daughter, Selah Barstad, 3, for a photo at the annual menorah lighting at Esther Short Park in 2017. The Chabad Jewish Center has held a public Hanukkah celebration in the park since 2004.

Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County sets drive-in menorah lighting for Hanukkah

Ephraim Barstad holds up his daughter, Selah Barstad, 3, for a photo at the annual menorah lighting at Esther Short Park in 2017. The Chabad Jewish Center has held a public Hanukkah celebration in the park since 2004.

December 9, 2020, 6:01am Churches & Religion

The Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County's 18th annual menorah lighting will look different this year. Last year, the center lit a 19-foot-tall stainless steel menorah beneath Esther Short Park's clock tower. Read story

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 file photo, priest Tadeusz Rydzyk, chairman of &quot;Radio Maryja&quot; and TV channel &quot;Trwam,&quot; demonstrates with others in Warsaw, Poland, against government policies, and to demand social welfare and job security. The popular Polish priest Tadeusz Rydzyk apologized Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020, for a sermon in which he defended a bishop accused of covering up for pedophile priests. His sermon, delivered to a congregation including the justice minister and other top politicians, was condemned by government officials.

Polish priest apologizes for defense of disgraced priest

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 file photo, priest Tadeusz Rydzyk, chairman of &quot;Radio Maryja&quot; and TV channel &quot;Trwam,&quot; demonstrates with others in Warsaw, Poland, against government policies, and to demand social welfare and job security. The popular Polish priest Tadeusz Rydzyk apologized Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020, for a sermon in which he defended a bishop accused of covering up for pedophile priests. His sermon, delivered to a congregation including the justice minister and other top politicians, was condemned by government officials.

December 8, 2020, 10:15am Churches & Religion

A popular Polish priest apologized Tuesday for a sermon in which he defended a bishop accused of covering up for pedophile priests. His sermon, delivered to a congregation including the justice minister and other top politicians, was later condemned by government officials. Read story

FILE - In this Thursday, April 23, 2020 file photo, People line up at Gotham Health East New York, a COVID-19 testing center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Black clergy leaders are joining forces with the United Way of New York City for a new initiative designed to combat the coronavirus&#039; outsized toll on Black Americans through testing, contact tracing and treatment management.

Black clergy, United Way join to fight virus

FILE - In this Thursday, April 23, 2020 file photo, People line up at Gotham Health East New York, a COVID-19 testing center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Black clergy leaders are joining forces with the United Way of New York City for a new initiative designed to combat the coronavirus&#039; outsized toll on Black Americans through testing, contact tracing and treatment management.

December 5, 2020, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Black clergy leaders are joining forces with the United Way of New York City for a new initiative designed to combat the coronavirus’ outsized toll on African Americans through ramped-up testing, contact tracing and treatment management. Read story

Pope Francis leaves after celebrating Mass on the occasion of the Christ the King festivity, in St. Peter&#039;s Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. At the end of the mass a delegation of youths from Panama will hand over the World Youth Day cross to youths from Portugal, where the next World Youth Day will be held in 2023.

Pope’s new book backs racial justice protests

Pope Francis leaves after celebrating Mass on the occasion of the Christ the King festivity, in St. Peter&#039;s Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. At the end of the mass a delegation of youths from Panama will hand over the World Youth Day cross to youths from Portugal, where the next World Youth Day will be held in 2023.

December 5, 2020, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and media organizations that spread their conspiracies in a new book penned during the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown. Read story

FILE - This Sunday, June 2, 2019, file photo shows Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory posed for a portrait following mass at St. Augustine Church in Washington. Gregory, who is undergoing quarantine at the Santa Marta hotel before Saturday&#039;s consistory, said that while he was unable to go out, at least he was able to get his new red cassock delivered from Rome&#039;Aos famous clerical haberdasher, Gammarelli.

Archbishop Gregory stood up to Trump. Now he’s about to be the first Black cardinal in the US

FILE - This Sunday, June 2, 2019, file photo shows Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory posed for a portrait following mass at St. Augustine Church in Washington. Gregory, who is undergoing quarantine at the Santa Marta hotel before Saturday&#039;s consistory, said that while he was unable to go out, at least he was able to get his new red cassock delivered from Rome&#039;Aos famous clerical haberdasher, Gammarelli.

November 29, 2020, 4:00pm Churches & Religion

Few of his parishioners were surprised when Washington, D.C., Archbishop Wilton Gregory took on President Donald Trump. Read story

Nisara Gill, right, leads a prayer service at Pakistan&#039;s first church for transgender worshippers, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Transgender Pakistanis are often mocked, abused and bullied, and Christians among them are a minority within a minority, often shunned even in churches.

Transgender Pakistanis find solace in own church

Nisara Gill, right, leads a prayer service at Pakistan&#039;s first church for transgender worshippers, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Transgender Pakistanis are often mocked, abused and bullied, and Christians among them are a minority within a minority, often shunned even in churches.

November 28, 2020, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Pakistan’s Christian transgender people, often mocked, abused and bullied, say they have found peace and solace in a church of their own. Read story

Cardinal clothing accessories are seen on display in the window of the Gammarelli clerical clothing shop, in Rome, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The consistory to elevate new cardinals scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 28, in the time of coronavirus is like nothing the Holy See has ever seen. A handful of soon-to-be cardinals are in protective coronavirus quarantine, including African-American, Cardinal-designate Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington who explained that a U.S.-based ecclesiastical tailor took his measurements while he was still in Washington and sent them to Gammarelli, which then made them to order and sent them to Santa Marta hotel where he is undergoing the quarantine.

New cardinals quarantine in pope’s hotel ahead of ceremony

Cardinal clothing accessories are seen on display in the window of the Gammarelli clerical clothing shop, in Rome, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The consistory to elevate new cardinals scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 28, in the time of coronavirus is like nothing the Holy See has ever seen. A handful of soon-to-be cardinals are in protective coronavirus quarantine, including African-American, Cardinal-designate Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington who explained that a U.S.-based ecclesiastical tailor took his measurements while he was still in Washington and sent them to Gammarelli, which then made them to order and sent them to Santa Marta hotel where he is undergoing the quarantine.

November 27, 2020, 8:36am Churches & Religion

The Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel was built to sequester cardinals during papal elections. It’s now sequestering soon-to-be cardinals in town for this weekend’s ceremony to get their red hats: A handful are in protective coronavirus quarantine, confined to their rooms on Vatican orders and getting meals delivered to their doors. Read story

Pilgrims arrive Dec. 12 at the plaza outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mexican Catholic Church announced on Monday the cancellation of the annual pilgrimage, the largest Catholic pilgrimage worldwide.

Catholic Church cancels Guadalupe pilgrimage over pandemic

Pilgrims arrive Dec. 12 at the plaza outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mexican Catholic Church announced on Monday the cancellation of the annual pilgrimage, the largest Catholic pilgrimage worldwide.

November 24, 2020, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church announced the cancellation Monday of what’s considered the world’s largest Catholic pilgrimage, for the Virgin of Guadalupe, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read story

Pope Francis leaves after celebrating Mass on the occasion of the Christ the King festivity, in St. Peter&#039;s Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. At the end of the mass a delegation of youths from Panama will hand over the World Youth Day cross to youths from Portugal, where the next World Youth Day will be held in 2023.

Pope Francis’ book explores George Floyd, virus skeptics

Pope Francis leaves after celebrating Mass on the occasion of the Christ the King festivity, in St. Peter&#039;s Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. At the end of the mass a delegation of youths from Panama will hand over the World Youth Day cross to youths from Portugal, where the next World Youth Day will be held in 2023.

November 23, 2020, 7:44am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and the media that spread their conspiracies in a new book penned during the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown. Read story

Ashley Green and her daughter, Jordiyn, 7, enjoy a Thanksgiving meal catered by Daddy D's BBQ on Saturday at Living Hope Church. Green has been coming to Living Hope for eight years, and the church provided services that helped Green get out of homelessness.

Daddy D’s BBQ, two Clark County churches feed thousands free Thanksgiving meal

Ashley Green and her daughter, Jordiyn, 7, enjoy a Thanksgiving meal catered by Daddy D's BBQ on Saturday at Living Hope Church. Green has been coming to Living Hope for eight years, and the church provided services that helped Green get out of homelessness.

November 21, 2020, 4:18pm Churches & Religion

Ashley Green sat at a round plastic table with her 7-year-old daughter, Jordiyn, inside Vancouver’s Living Hope Church enjoying some Thanksgiving meal staples -- ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, the works -- on Saturday morning. Read story