Gardner is the second woman to serve as bishop in Nevada, after Katharine Jefferts Schori served as the presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church from 2006 to 2015.
Religion
For the fourth consecutive year, a Las Vegas church celebrated Ash Wednesday by offering “Ashes to Go” on the Strip.
The church service was part of a series of “King Week” events organized by the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Committee, which will include the 40th annual parade honoring the civil rights icon Monday morning in downtown Las Vegas.
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada has upgraded its community meal space, hoping to serve 10 million more meals to the homeless population in Las Vegas.
The Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center, whose purpose is to prevent anything like the Holocaust from ever happening again, will celebrate its move to a new home on Thursday.
It’s an obvious question, and the most common one survivors of the Holocaust hear “How Did You Survive?”
The Israeli American Council Center in the western Las Vegas Valley hosted a Hanukkah “glow-in-the-dark drive-in experience”on Saturday night.
In downtown Las Vegas, Rabbi Shea Harlig of Chabad of Southern Nevada will light the first candle setting on a menorah on Fremont Street on Thursday evening to mark the beginning of the eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
This year, Hanukkah will be celebrated from sundown Thursday to sundown Dec. 18.
Imam Fateen Seifullah is helping the Historic Westside by offering residents — Muslim or not — access to a chess club, a food pantry, computers and a library.
A new survey reveals that Nevada young adults’ knowledge of the Holocaust mostly mirrors that of other 18-to-39-year-olds across the country.
While the shofar, a ram’s horn, traditionally is blown in synagogues in observance of the new year holiday, the practice is being moved outdoors this year.
The Rev. Henry Brian Highfill has been included on a list of “credibly accused” clergy, had local assignments from 1999 to 2005.
He last celebrated Mass at Christ the King Catholic Church on July 9 while wearing a face mask and using hand sanitizer, as diocesan protocol requires.
Diocese says Holy Family Catholic Church is temporarily closed and suggests that congregants who attended Wednesday Mass be tested.
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