April 6, 2024, 5:07am Churches & Religion
For more than 125 years, Mason United Methodist Church has served a prominent role in North Tacoma’s Proctor neighborhood. Now, facing an economic shortfall coupled with a dwindling and aging congregation, its pastor has ambitious plans to raze the building and construct a mixed-use housing and community center in its… Read story
April 5, 2024, 2:46pm Churches & Religion
An international campaign to ban surrogacy received a strong endorsement Friday from the Vatican, with a top official calling for a broad-based alliance to stop the “commercialization of life.” Read story
April 3, 2024, 7:32am Churches & Religion
As hundreds of asylum-seekers faced the threat of sleeping outside Tuesday night, King County’s asylum-seeker crisis reached a new, more serious stage. Read story
April 3, 2024, 6:09am Churches & Religion Subscriber Exclusive
King’s Way Christian soccer player Luke Gomes says coping with hearing loss deepens his resolve – and his faith Read story
April 2, 2024, 9:09am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future conclaves, in a book-length interview published Tuesday. Read story
April 1, 2024, 6:01am Churches & Religion
Metropolitan Community Church of the Gentle Shepherd is celebrating 40 years of creating a safe place of worship for the LGBTQ+ community. Read story
March 30, 2024, 6:05am Churches & Religion
In 1837, Hudson’s Bay Company Gov. George Simpson wrote to the Archdiocese of Quebec to request a Catholic mission be established in his company’s territory north of the Columbia River. Read story
March 29, 2024, 8:46am Churches & Religion
On Easter morning, many Christians wake before dawn to celebrate their belief in the resurrection of Jesus, the son of God — as the sun rises. Read story
March 29, 2024, 8:28am Churches & Religion
A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea. Read story
March 29, 2024, 8:18am Churches & Religion
Hundreds of Christians participated in a customary Good Friday procession through the limestone walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, commemorating one of the faith’s most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Read story