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Each week more than 100 adults pour into a downtown Spokane church, unshaken by the knotty departure of their lead pastor, Mark Driscoll, and the recent news that their church wouldn’t be a Mars Hill Church satellite after all.

The Rev. Tom Altepeter of St. Clare Ecumenical Catholic Community, a church he once described as a "a homeless shelter for homeless Catholics," was selected as the first bishop-elect for the region on Sept. 28 and will be the sixth regional bishop in the ECC.

(RNS) In the West, the idea that religion is inherently violent is taken for granted by everyone from academics to cab drivers, says British...

Paine Hamblen LLP, the law firm of accused by the Catholic Diocese of Spokane of mismanaging a 2007 bankruptcy and settlement regarding clergy sex abuse victims filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court this week to dismiss the claims.

Efforts to reform Spokane's criminal justice system are under way. The Smart Justice Spokane Community Symposium will be held Saturday (Nov. 15) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Gonzaga University School of Law.

SpokaneFAVS is pleased to welcome Dr. Kimberly Burnham to its team of writers. Burnham, who holds her PhD inIntegrative Medicine, is a brain health expert

The location of this graveyard of children is not random. Idaho, in its laws protecting children from neglect and intentional harm, has an exemption for those who choose to heal through prayer alone.