Not everything stays in Vegas. Especially Heather Klein, Temple Sinai’s new cantorial soloist, who has put her time in with Lilith the Night Demon.
Religion
The exact number of senior citizens experiencing hunger in the Las Vegas Valley is hard to pinpoint. Many proud seniors forgo a meal to pay their rent, utility bills or buy life-saving medication.
Even without realizing it, it’s hard not to come across the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It has created one of the largest nonprofit health organizations in the country, with medical facilities across the U.S., as well as hospitals in South Asia and South America.
Remarks by Pope Francis at a Vatican ceremony this week suggest a more compassionate view towards Catholics who have been divorced and remarried without church sanction. But the call for “open doors” hasn’t settled the issue.
The twenty-first century isn’t short on distinctions. It’s a new era, propelled by innovation and sustained by unprecedented connectivity.
Pope Francis on Wednesday called for a more open Church — one that embraces people who are divorced and remarried and their children.
In an effort to find new ways of attracting followers, The Crossing Christian Church in southwest Las Vegas spent much of the summer exploring forms of artistic expression.
During a time when every societal shift is sliced into wedges of data by the latest research poll, religion has been boiled down to how often we sit in the pews, how much we pray, even if we are “absolutely certain” to “not at all certain” about a belief in God.
Despite its name, Castaways resale store breathes more than just new life into its merchandise. It also revitalizes its workers.
Kellie Haddock will never forget the night she almost lost her son Eli. It was Oct. 31, 2004.
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series about faith and aging.
Abstaining from food and water for about 15 hours a day in 100-plus-degree heat for a month is trying, but believers say it is supposed to be that way. They say the Islamic holy month practice tests their faith, teaches about those less fortunate and brings them closer to God.
Pope Francis on Thursday urged the downtrodden to change the world economic order, denouncing a “new colonialism” by agencies that impose austerity programs.
For some, hitting the “Like” button on Facebook just isn’t enough. Luckily for those users, four Brazilian evangelical Christians have created a new, “sin-free” version of Facebook called Facegloria that allows users to click “Amen” instead of “Like” when they approve of a post, according to Vice News.
In response to the church shootings in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine African-Americans, a valley multicultural church and an African-American congregation gathered for a joint service of prayer, sermon and song to celebrate racial unity.