Religion and Faith

December 18, 2014 4:00 AM

Photos: Santa's elves deliver Christmas cheer, trees

Brandon Johnson says many of his colleagues in the tree industry plow snow in the winter, but that didn't appeal to him. So, in 2011, Santa's Tree Delivery was born.

by Courtney Perry

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December 17, 2014 12:54 PM

Church of England names its first female bishop

Rev. Libby Lane has been a parish priest for two decades years. On Jan. 26 she will become the first female bishop since the church was founded five centuries ago.

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December 17, 2014 12:04 PM

Photos: Celebrating Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Hundreds of parishioners gathered to honor the Virgin of Guadalupe on December 12, 2014, at the Church of the Risen Savior in Burnsville, Minnesota. The Catholic church celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with music, dancing, tamales and evening Mass.

by Nikki Tundel

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December 16, 2014 10:44 PM

Photos: All aboard! Riding the North Pole Express at Union Depot

The holiday steam locomotive took riders on a 1 1/2-hour authentic steam engine experience complete with a visit from Santa Claus.

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December 16, 2014 5:45 PM

After two years of discord, St. Anthony agrees to mosque

A settlement in a federal lawsuit allows a mosque to worship in part of the former Medtronic headquarters. Mayor Jerry Faust said the worshipers "will be accepted by this community."

by Laura Yuen

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December 16, 2014 1:29 PM

Vatican offers olive branch to U.S. nuns

The result of a controversial three-year investigation into U.S. women's religious orders was released Tuesday. The report was overwhelmingly positive and hailed as encouraging and realistic in tone.

by The Associated Press

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December 16, 2014 12:00 AM

Hanukkah stories and music for the festival of lights

Two hours of Hanukkah programming to start the Jewish festival of lights.

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December 8, 2014 11:49 AM

Priest acquitted of criminal sexual conduct

The Rev. Mark Huberty said in a statement that he's relieved and that a lot of unnecessary harm had been done to the people of his parish and the complainant herself.

by The Associated Press

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December 1, 2014 12:00 PM

Pope Francis as reformer, evangelizer -- and doctrinal conservative

Author Austen Ivereigh argues in a new biography, The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope, that many misjudge the meaning of the pope's comments on abortion, homosexuality and nonbelievers.