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A Summerville church group got stuck in Israel amid conflict in Iran. Faith is getting them through.
6+ hour, 49+ min ago (685+ words) A group of worshippers from Calvary Chapel Summerville got stranded in Israel after the outbreak of the war with Iran on Feb. 28. SUMMERVILLE " Pastor Vic Carroll, the leader of Calvary Chapel Summerville, was standing with his wife Melanie and a…...
Dust and ashes: Aiken-area churches observe Ash Wednesday
1+ week, 6+ day ago (542+ words) St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic School first-grader Bella Sander, center, joins her fellow students in sharing "the sign of peace" during an Ash Wednesday Mass Feb. 18. The Rt. Rev. Daniel Paul Richards, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper…...
Charleston police working to determine who made synagogue bomb threat
2+ week, 1+ day ago (188+ words) Fire trucks and law enforcement searched Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue and the surrounding area on Tuesday, Feb. 17 for a bomb after a threat was called in. Charleston Fire Department engines and hazmat trucks respond to a scene on Hasell…...
Leaders of Anne Frank Centers across the world converge in Columbia to honor Holocaust education
3+ week, 1+ day ago (794+ words) L-R: Hector Shalom, Ana Frank Centro, Dan Green, Veronika Nahm, Robert Leopold and Doyle Stevick speak on the Anne Frank Centers" importance in education and combatting antisemitism in Columbia on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. More than 1,500 people visited a traveling Anne Frank…...
Now's the best chance to protect our synagogues, mosques and churches from widespread violence
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (267+ words) After each horrific incidence of violence and terror targeting the Jewish community, more doors were closed and more buildings locked. Several years ago, I was walking down a main road on the peninsula when I was struck by the sound…...
It makes sense that people see AI as God
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (790+ words) FILE "OpenAI's ChatGPT on a laptop in San Francisco, March 21, 2025. It makes sense that people see AI as God; a religious fervor surrounds our relationship with technology." Hark! A sign of the end times. No, not the Four Horsemen, nor…...
New Year's is a time for reflection, faith and spiritual practice for Muslims around the world
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (271+ words) Muslims are taught that the only religious festivals are Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. During the time of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), the Muslim Society decided to adopt the Hijri calendar as a means of defining and beginning…...
Dynamics of creation
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (968+ words) Genesis 2:7 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." The average human body contains 30 trillion cells. Blood cells, bones, skin, organs…...
Explore the traditions of Jewish Book Month while you wait for Hannukah
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (384+ words) In 1940, Jewish Book Week was moved from the spring to this lull on the Jewish calendar before Hanukkah where it could be used to promote Jewish books as Hanukkah gifts. The Jewish calendar is notoriously imbalanced. After all of the…...
This proposed development would serve Myrtle Beach's Jewish community. Here are the details.
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (788+ words) A rendering shows the 8,000-square-foot Spiritual Center as the anchor of the proposed Chabad of Myrtle Beach spiritual center development to be located from Oak Street to 29th Avenue North. The corner of 29th Avenue North and Oak Street is the site…...