Foreign-born religious workers, who have been hoping for changes to the temporary visa process so they can establish permanent residency and serve their congregations, recently celebrated a small win.
Methow Valley United Methodist Church unveiled a solar array and battery storage system in November that will power its facility during outages and provide clean air during wildfires. The church is also set to install an electric vehicle charger later this spring, allowing community members with EVs to evacuate the Methow Valley, even when the power grid is down.
Maranatha Church, Jasmine Ministries and Creole Resources have served Spokane’s Haitian population for years – most recently by creating job and housing opportunities made scarce to them due to social and legal barriers created by the Trump administration.
Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center deep in Chelan County’s North Cascades, might be closed for more than a year after winter landslides shut down access to the remote location.
A nationally known Catholic apologist and the founder of Moscow’s Christ Church are set to debate one of Christianity’s most foundational divisions next month at the University of Idaho.
OLYMPIA – The Washington attorney general’s office can continue to probe whether the Catholic church misused funds to cover up alleged child abuse, a state court ruled Monday.
When Philip Huber started casually studying Swahili in 2019, he was just trying to get to the point where he could have a simple conversation. He and his wife, Alice, had recently become friends with several refugees from Africa, and he wanted to be able to communicate better with them. He never dreamed that it would go much beyond that.
When Christian Gill began working on his Lego model of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, he made the strange realization: the inside of the church has fewer windows than the outside.
Eddie Tabash has been advocating for the separation of church and state for decades, a right laid out in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that Tabash said has been increasingly eroded.
If churches and religious groups are responsible for causing trauma, then churches and religious groups have a moral responsibility to actively address that harm, said George Fricks, an ecumenical minister who serves students at the University of Idaho.
When a Minnesota faith group issued a call for religious leaders across the country to come and support the Minneapolis community, at least 11 of Eastern Washington’s clergy were among the thousand who poured in.
Shirley Grossman erupted in tears as she stood in the middle of The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist on Friday, recalling how her mother fled Russia in the 1920s to find a better life in the United States.
On a Friday morning in November, about two dozen people gathered at St. James Episcopal Church in Pullman to do something that has become increasingly rare in American life: talk honestly about politics without tearing each other apart.
COEUR D’ALENE – In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Catholic middle and high school youth group attendance is at an all-time high averaging about 85 teens weekly. This represents more than a 50% increase over past years.
When you cover religion for a living, Sunday mornings can lose their sacred quality. Church becomes your office, and after years of taking notes in pews across the region, the idea of attending services for personal worship can feel about as appealing as working overtime.
