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With about a week to go, The Salvation Army Spokane is facing a shortfall to its Red Kettle donations — both physically and online.

Santa Express began as a project of a group of women in the Junior League of Spokane who wanted to do something to support the Vanessa Behan crisis shelter. The organization was founded five years earlier in 1987 as a community response to the tragic death of a child at the hands of domestic abuse.

A group of local residents frustrated and horrified at what has been going on in Israel and the Gaza Strip over the last two months have banded together to create a new organization, the Inland Northwest Coalition for the Liberation of Palestine.

This week you'll learn about Washington's ban on conversion therapy at the U.S. Supreme Court, Black Hebrew Israelites in Montana getting run over, Chabad of Spokane lighting the large menorah downtown Spokane for Chanukah and more.

PJALS will host a Candlelight Vigil on Dec. 14. They join other humanitarian and human rights organizations in calls for a permanent cease-fire, an end to Israel’s current blockade of Gaza and the 16-year siege and the return of all hostages and political prisoners by Hamas and Israel.

The Presbytery of the Inland Northwest and the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane are recipients of almost $2 million in grant funding from the Lilly Endowment’s Thriving Congregations Initiative.

Faith communities were at the forefront of wildfire aftermath in West Plains and North Spokane County, opening church doors to serve as temporary shelters, offering blankets, clothing and food.