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Faith groups support Trendsetters in schools

May 9, 2008

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Ten-year-old Dillon Blestrud says he has seen some remarkable changes in his classmates since they began doing community service with the Trendsetters Club at Kyrene de Los Niños Elementary School in Tempe.

Shopkeeper stays true to Catholic readings

May 9, 2008

Abraham Samandar was born and raised in Jerusalem, and he has read and reread the “old stories” from in and around his historic hometown.

Deacon candidate's removal upsets Mesa church

May 9, 2008

Parishioners of All Saints Catholic Church in Mesa say they are prepared to take a complaint of injustice to the Vatican if Bishop Thomas Olmsted will not provide good reason why Stephen Kohl could spend 5½ years training to become a deacon, but then be abruptly removed just months before his scheduled ordination.

Valley Mormons decry link to Texas sect

May 6, 2008

For Arizona State University senior Steven Raisor, the more he hears about the ongoing Texas polygamy and child abuse cases, the more he's disgusted at those allegedly involved.

Around the East Valley

May 7, 2008

Find all the support group meetings, classes, prayer times and more around the East Valley.

Mormon, Baptist respect differences in faith

May 2, 2008

Headstrong in their two faiths, a Mormon and a Baptist squared off recently at the Tempe Institute of Religion at Arizona State University and spent 2 1/2 hours demonstrating they could aggressively question each other's religions but come away with deep respect and love for each other.

Author coached White House on Catholic issues

May 2, 2008

If President Bush seems to have gone well out of his way two weeks ago to welcome and host Pope Benedict XVI during the papal visit to Washington, D.C., perhaps Deal Hudson can take some of the credit.

Tempe's Cook School for American Indians closing

April 28, 2008

Tall totem poles have ceremoniously come down on the campus of Cook School for Christian Leadership, and by this time next month, the American Indian training institution in Tempe since 1955 will be closed because of changing patterns in educating native peoples.

SLIDESHOW: See photos from a ceremony at the School

Rabbis critical of sheriff’s sweeps for illegals

April 18, 2008

Two days before Passover, 17 Valley rabbis spoke out Thursday against sweeps conducted by deputies of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to identify and arrest illegal immigrants for deportation.

Book, film showcase walk that promoted Christian compassion

August 25, 2007

They’ve long since kicked the road dust from their shoes, but the small band who walked 2,500 miles from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., last year in CrossWalk America for a new vision of Christian faith is taking it to America again with a book, “Asphalt Jesus,” and a documentary film, “Asphalt Gospel.”

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