All Blog Posts Tagged 'religion' (29)

CROS Ministries members Carolina Martinez, 27, (left) of West Palm Beach and Tracy Tenore, 28, (right)

of Boynton Beach paint the house of Delray Beach resident Willie Lee Thomas, 89, with the help…

Debbie Dingle stands at Mount Kilimanjaro, where she climbed to raise awareness

of human trafficking and women forced into sexual slavery.

Members of Advent Lutheran Church raised $70,000 to help…

Lori Robbins (left) and Candy Evans harvest vegetables in the Community Garden of the…

The after-school program at St. Paul’s includes tutoring, like Joyce Harvey (above) helping Brian Saint Val with his math, and a daily meal enjoyed by dozens of students, including Rachelle Poliard and Angie Cyril (below). Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal…

By Tim Pallesen

A new $3 million mosque that opened last month is evidence of the rapidly growing Muslim population in southern Palm Beach County.

    The 30,000-square-foot Islamic Center of Boca Raton will serve as a house of prayer, education center and community gathering…

Members of the Avenue Church bow in prayer to kick off their fitness ministry, which began July 14. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Tim Pallesen

Bikers and runners on Ocean Boulevard generate the most activity…

Members of the first graduating class at Boca Raton Rabbinical College include (l-r) Levi Weingarten, 22, of Flint, Mich.; Shmaya Futerfas, 22, of Brooklyn; Sholom Wilansky, 21, of Montreal; Sholom Elharrar, 21 of Montreal; and Mendal Abramowitz, 21, of Worcester,…

Grass River Garden Club member Susan Vicinelli shows Paul’s Place after-school student Tanicha Emilcar (center) an edible flower during the April 10 closing of the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Community Garden in Delray Beach. Students Jovante Pierre…

A woman greets the dawn on Easter Sunday at Oceanfront Park.…

By Tim Pallesen

Feeding the poor is a challenge for people of faith.

    Volunteers responded by serving 88,691 hot meals last year at the Caring Kitchen in Delray Beach.

    That’s a 50 percent increase over the 59,034 meals served in 2005, and…

Members of the congregation gather on a chilly Sunday for service at Old School Square.

By Tim Pallesen

    

Delray Beach’s fastest-growing new church began with a chance meeting in a downtown coffee shop.

    The…

A diverse group of people recently held a rally in Boca Raton to show support for those seeking democracy in Egypt. Photo courtesy of Stephanie El Maadawy

By C. B. Hanif

The whole world was watching.

The faith world was watching — including spiritually minded…

By C.B. Hanif

The Chabad of South Palm Beach’s new center in Manalapan’s Plaza Del Mar is just plain welcoming.

“We really did try to create that feel,” said Rabbi Leibel Stolik. “We wanted it to be an inviting, warm, welcoming atmosphere, so that people can feel welcome, walk by and feel that everybody and…

By C.B. Hanif

Deborah Lee Prescott is a Christian, who teaches at Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Christian college, but whose passion is to study the memoirs and autobiographies of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.…

“For those of us who experienced 9/11 in America, our hearts were heavy in two respects. One, because of the senseless loss of innocent life. But then there was a double blow to us, because in the process, the religion of Al-Islam was blemished, by the conduct of people who called themselves doing something in the name of…

By C.B. Hanif

September is a very busy month in the Jewish faith, and one can learn a lot about the coming holidays from Rabbis Robert A. Silvers and Randall J. Konigsburg.

Picturesque outside and serene within, the First Church of Christ, Scientist sanctuary almost belies its amazing journey from an Air Force base in Boca Raton to its

200 SE Seventh Ave. home in Delray Beach. The January 1949 move was a

logistical challenge. For example, the building had to be cut in half for…