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Celebrating the end of Ramadan at the Islamic Center of Spokane. Tracy SimmonsTracy Simmons is an award winning journalist specializing in religion reporting, digital entrepreneurship and social journalism. In her 15 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite …

SPOKANE VALLEY — Nearly 800 Muslims came together at the Islamic Center of Spokane on Sunday morning to celebrate Eid-al-Fitr — a holiday marking the end of Ramadan.

Ramadan is Islam’s holy month in which Muslims fast from sunup to sundown, say extra prayers, read the Quran and give to charity.

With all the recent talk of biblical marriage, I decided I was living life all wrong. It was time for me to get married. But I wanted to be sure to find my wife the biblical way.

Bruce Steele says he's been on a geographical pilgrimmage. He left Niagra Falls, making stops in Oregon and California before settling in Spokane.

All eyes are on Wisconsin this morning after a deadly shooting rampage at a Sikh temple that left six people dead, as well as newly identified shooter Wade Michael Page. Sources tell CNN that Page is thought to be a white supremacist, and temple members say they'd never seen him before. Unnamed sources told ABC he's a "skinhead."

I spent several years living and working just a few miles from the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin where seven people lost their lives.