SpokaneFAVS celebrated its third annual Faith Feast: An Interfaith Progressive Dinner Sunday evening (April 26) with baklava, vegetarian meatballs, strawberry shortcake and tours of three of Spokane's houses of worship.

Gonzaga University will host the 19th Annual African American Spokane Community Graduation Celebration at 1 p.m., Saturday, April 25 in the Cataldo Hall Globe Room.

The Spokane Orphan Summit, a one-day conference aimed at encouraging Christians to get involved with foster, adopted and orphaned children and their families, will take place Saturday at Eastpoint Church.

Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will host a Day of Prayer on Prayer entitled, “Prayer-How do you do it? Simple Strategies and Practical Solutions,” which will be lead by the Rev. Jeff Core on April 22.

Sekulow’s understandable and appropriate umbrage over the recent violent persecution of Christians (which would include the horrific targeting of Christian students recently in Kenya) has, however, never extended to even a mention of huge numbers of non-Christians being likewise assailed, including several atheists hacked to death by religious ideologues in Pakistan.

On Thursday Temple Beth Shalom will launch a three-week introduction to Judaism class.