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BRIEF: Christmas in July Food Drive begins this week

Starting Thursday Positive Life Radio will be collecting canned food, nonperishable food items and toiletries to deliver to food banks around the Inland Northwest.

Items needed most are:

- Bath Soap
- Bath Tissue
- Diapers

POLL: Should charitable tax donation deductions be limited?

Government leaders are considering proposals that would limit charitable tax donation deductions.

One proposal would set an annual dollar cap (between $17,000 and $50,000), leaving less room for donors to deduct their charitable contributions.

Pope Francis cleans house at the Vatican Bank

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Two top managers of the Vatican Bank resigned on Monday (July 1), just five days after Pope Francis appointed an independent commission to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the scandal-plagued bank.

The surprise resignation of the bank’s director general, Paolo Cipriani, and of his deputy, Massimo Tulli, follows the arrest of a senior Vatican official with close ties to the bank who was charged on Friday with attempting to smuggle 20 million euros into Italy from Switzerland.

POLL: Have you rendered unto Caesar?

Jesus said in the gospels, "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."

Today is the late day to file your income taxes.

BRIEF: Sravasti Abbey in need of food

The monastics at Sravasti Abbey follow the Buddha's sangha tradition and only eat the food that is offered to them, and that food is running low.

According to the Buddha, this practice establishes a mutual dependence between monastics and the lay community.

Local Christian radio listeners raise money for wells in Guatemala

On Jan. 31, KEEH-FM’s Don Godman hosted a 4-hour on-air fundraiser that raised more $21,000 to dig two new wells in a remote village in Guatemala.

With partner, Water for Life, and support from listeners, about 700 people in the village of La Compuerta at the top of a dry hill in Guatemala, will have a clean source of fresh water for their homes, according to a press release

Help the little drummer boys among us

As I was driving home this evening from a massive amount of errands, the song “Little Drummer Boy” by Jars of Clay came on the radio. This is far from my favorite Christmas song, but the words came to a deeper meaning this particular holiday.

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