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Ashes were placed on the foreheads of the faithful at many christian churches in Lancaster County on Wednesday.

The faithful are called upon to receive the mark of the cross on the first day of the 40-day Lenten season as a symbol of repentance and contrition in the days leading to Easter.

The...

St. James Episcopal Church offers three services on Ash Wednesday, but few children attend.

So this year for the first time the church, at 119 N. Duke St., will offer a 30-minute, kid-friendly Ash Wednesday service at 4:30 p.m.

"Receiving the ashes and hearing the powerful words, 'ashes to ash...

APPOINTMENTS

• The Samaritan Counseling Center, with offices in Lancaster and Lititz, recently appointed Julia M. Schrock Rosenfeld, Dr. J. Clair Hess and the Rev. Pamela A. Reist to its board of directors. For more information, go to www.scclanc.org.

ART EXHIBIT

• Holy Trinity Lu...

Throughout his 26-year career as a pastor, the Rev. David Ryan has dreamed of an art gallery at his church.

Finally, his dream has come true.

Hopeland United Methodist Church, 295 N. Clay Road, Lititz, will host its first art exhibit, focusing on verses from the Book of Psalms, from 6:30 to 9:...

Editor's note: This is the sixth column in a series on Mormons.

"God said it. I believe it. That settles it."

How many times have you seen that bumper sticker?

The idea of an immutable literature of holy books is firmly fixed in the majority of Judeo-Christian tradition. Though it has been ...

"We care for Earth's lifeboat."

— Children's version of the seventh principle of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.

Picture fluttering butterflies, native flowers swaying in the breeze and birds splashing in decorative rain barrels beyond the wrought iron fence at ...

As the senior pastor at First United Church of Christ in Lancaster, Bill Worley saw the Safe Church program as a chance to grapple with how the congregation could put children "at the center of our church's life."

Worley also hoped that his church, a predominantly older one welcoming an increasin...

The allegations leveled at Jerry Sandusky shone a spotlight on the sexual abuse of children, prompting ongoing conversations about how better to protect them.

Nine local congregations already were working together in the grant-funded Safe Church program to protect the safety of children in their ...

Laurie Mellinger doesn't like people to make a fuss over her.

But on Tuesday, she was the center of attention at a ceremony with lots of pomp and circumstance.

Mellinger, 49, of Lancaster Township, was installed as dean of academic programs in the spring convocation at Myerstown's Evangelical ...

According to Dolores Reidenbach, the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case is just the tip of the iceberg.

"It's rampant," she said. "The (national) statistics are staggering. One in four girls before the age of 18 will be victimized in some way; one in six boys."

Reidenbach, 51, of Elizabeth...