Tag: Faith-Based Organizations

Entry of Immaculate Heart Retreat Center.

NEWPORT — On Sunday Sravasti Abbey welcomed a new novice nun to its community. In an ordination ceremony Daniela Mieritz took vows and became Venerable Thubten Jampa. Ruby Pan also took vows to become an an Anagarkia.

As the director of a kosher food pantry outside Detroit, Lea Luger knows that some people have a hard time thinking that Jews anywhere in America could be short on food.
“For many years, one of our biggest hurdles was convincing Jews and non-Jews that a need existed,” said Luger, executive director of Yad Ezra, which serves 1,400 families a month, up from 250 a month when the pantry was founded in 1990.

The Oak Tree, a faith movement working toward justice in Spokane, is focusing on building and enacting a sustainable economic development strategy for the city.

Through its Worker Owned Cooperatives Team, which meets the second and fourth Friday of the month, the group will conducting feasibility studies in various industry areas for first worker owned cooperative startups...

Buddhist prayer flags covered in ice at Sravasti Abbey.

On Dec. 27, Ven. Chodron rejoices in the completion of mani mantra recitation