Kelly McBride

(Unpublished correction:) The name of Brandon Farnworth was misspelled in this story.

The music of a "Prayer For This House" was a tad too loud for four-year-old Ethan Burns during the dedication ceremony for the new Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday. Children of church members took part in a banner processional at the start of services. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

The Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls offers a Tridentine Mass. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

Walking into Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Sunday morning is like turning back the clock 30 years. Lace scarves cover women's heads. Sitting next to them are two, three, sometimes five children who watch the service quietly, respectfully. Only the babies are disruptive.

WSU students Erik Arroyo and Celeste Seibel struggle with settling wood forms. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

1. Sister Paula Mary Turnbull 2. The sculpture of the Holy Family is loaded into a truck and taken to Yakima. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

Churches can prevent or at least minimize sexual abuse of children - if they would just talk about it - an expert told a group of Spokane clergy and lay people Tuesday night. "There's no evidence that the rate of incest and violence is any less among religious groups than anywhere else," said Elizabeth StellasTippins of the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence in Seattle.

The annual Christian Workers Conference, opening in Spokane on Thursday, is known to some as the Bloomsday of church seminars. "Spokane is not a place where we should have the largest of anything," said Daryl Bursch, chairman of the committee that organizes the conference. "But, like Bloomsday, this is a phenomenon that has just grown because of the dedication and vision of the people behind it."

Kosher feast Volunteers, from left, Diane Moshin, Dusya Alman and Mark Moshin, help dish out the kosher dinner Sunday. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Mission: Rwanda. Sticking together, Carl and Teresa Wilkins are heading back to Rwanda to do missionary work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church and are taking their three children, Shaun, 6, Lisa, 8, and Mindy, 11. Teresa and the children fled when the chaos broke out last year. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Several hundred Spokane members of the Jesus Christ Church of Latter-day Saints gathered to grieve Wednesday during the funeral of church President Howard W. Hunter. The service, which was held at Tabernacle in Temple Square in Salt Lake City, was broadcast via satellite to three locations in Spokane.

A controversial group of biblical scholars is coming to Coeur d'Alene this week to share their work with the public. Three members of the Jesus Seminar - which three years ago concluded Jesus didn't say most of what the Gospels attribute to him - will lecture Friday night and conduct two workshops Saturday at the Lake City Senior Center.

1. Sister Xaviar Berberich, left, and sister Eumelia Scheufele go for a walk behind the Dominican Center on a recent warm afternoon. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Twenty-two sisters and postulents arrived at Kettle Falls from Germany in 1937 and are included in this group photograph taken in front of Our Lady of the Valley Convent in Kettle Falls. 3. Standing, at left, Sister Isentrude Mathies, Sister Eumelia Scheufele, seated, Sister Xaviar Berberich. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

The national director of Operation Rescue, a group known for protesting at abortion clinics, will be in Spokane next week to lead several rallies. Flip Benham said he'll "encourage brothers and sisters to continue to allow their theology to become reality." Benham plans to lead protests on March 3 and 4 outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic, E123 Indiana, where abortions are performed.

Christian groups are competing for the souls of state lawmakers this year in Olympia. From welfare and crime to health care and gay rights, Christian lobbyists are weighing in on several lightning-rod issues. Although they start with the same Bible and worship the same God, the churches often find themselves at odds over public policy.

Protesters gather in front of the U.S. Court House on Tuesday to criticize recent national and state legislative actions. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

Workers expect to put the finishing touches on St. Peter's Catholic Church, at 18th and Freya, in time for tonight's 7:30 dedication ceremony. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

105 years of worship. Clapping her hands to the sounds of gospel music, Dorothy Webster helps celebrate the 105 anniversary of Calvary Baptist Church on Sunday. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Task force for Indian Trail area is in favor of allowing up to six houses per acre. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

1. 'Never again'. A couple walk the railroad tracks that brought as many as 1.5 million people to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. Photo by Associated Press 2. Davis Ferszt still bears the identification number tattooed on his arm at Auschwitz. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

Spokane officials still are negotiating with developer Leif Sorenson over the purchase of land in Indian Trail in order to build a 4 million gallon water tank. "We thought we had an understanding with him," said Irv Reed, director of Planning and Urban Services. "But that has fallen through." The water tank is necessary to alleviate water pressure problems many residents in the neighborhood complain of now.

Several proposed North Side subdivisions - large and small - go before a panel of hearing examiners next week for review. The panel, comprised of three members of the county Planning Commission, also will determine the fate of a number of rezoning requests. The hearing begins at 9 a.m., Jan. 26, in the basement of the Public Works Building across the street from the County Courthouse.

The owner of Spokane's largest shopping center last week helped kick off a neighborhood effort to build a police substation. The Sabey Corp., owner of NorthTown Mall, donated $5,000 to the committee working on plans to build Neva-Wood COPS, a police substation at Wellesley and Addison. "We benefit from the community. We want to bring better things to the community," said Laurent Poole, executive vice president of Sabey Corp.

The weapons used in a Pend Oreille County homicide last week may have been stolen from an Elk home, according to Spokane County sheriff's deputies. Mary Foster of N41700 Frantz Road in Elk reported that she was attacked and her home was burglarized Jan. 7. She has no memory of the attack, which left her with a head injury, Ries said. After treating her injuries, her doctor advised that she check her home for the possibility a crime was committed. Foster then noticed that several weapons, including a rifle and pistol, were missing, Ries said.