Churches & Religion

Historic Tacoma church could be razed

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

Right to children or children’s rights? Surrogacy debate comes to a head in Rome

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

With no room for asylum-seekers, Tukwila church turns families away

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

King’s Way Christian junior Luke Gomes sends a pass into the penalty box during a boys soccer game against Seton Catholic on March 21 in Vancouver.

Scoring over adversity: King’s Way Christian soccer player Luke Gomes says coping with hearing loss deepens his resolve – and his faith

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

FILE - Pope Francis salutes Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, left, at the end of a consistory in the St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, on Feb. 22, 2014. Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” to sway votes during the past two conclaves and denied he is planning to reform the process to elect a pope in a new book-length interview published Tuesday April 2, 2024.

Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves and settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide

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

A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace

Ruben Enaje, center, remains on the cross flanked by two other devotees during the reenactment of Jesus Christ’s sufferings as part of Good Friday rituals in San Pedro Cutud, north of Manila, Philippines, Friday, March 29, 2024. Filipino villager Ruben Enaje was 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. (AP Photo/Gerard V.

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

In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday celebrations

A priest holds a cross during a Good Friday ceremony outside Notre Dame cathedral , as part of Easter celebrations, Friday, March 29, 2024 in Paris.

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