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Christian churches across the world celebrate Easter in diverse ways, and the Spokane regional churches are no different.

The 7th International Conference on Hate Studies will take place in Spokane April 20-22. “The Challenges of Hate in the 21st Century” is this year’s conference theme. The deadline to register is April 10.

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the nation, a small group of people came together to form the Inland Northwest Unitarian Universalist Community with the goal of creating a spiritually nourishing place of worship that would be welcoming to all.

HRC Ministries wants to sell a piece of property they know God provided for them. Purchased in 2019, the property provided a safe space in a renovated home for women coming out of trafficking.

Underneath that capable exterior is a woman who was a drug addict by her late teens. By the time she was 21, she was facing prison — and pregnant. Pressured on all sides to end the pregnancy and told that drug-addicted women couldn’t have healthy babies, she aborted the child.

The Presbytery of the Inland Northwest’s (PIN) “Building Towards Reconciliation” campaign is more than just raising money to repair six churches on the Nez Perce Reservation in north-central Idaho — churches that are the oldest in the presbytery and among the oldest in the state.

Arezoo Davari wanted to show solidarity with the women in Iran and to speak out against their oppression.As an associate professor of marketing at Eastern Washington University and an Iranian, Davari believed a college panel event of Iranian women talking about life in their country would be one way she could “do something.”