3+ day, 10+ hour ago (53+ words) Volunteers from Central Union Church distributed food to those in need during the weekly food distribution event "Serving Aloha" on Wednesday, Nov. 26. Saturday, November 29, 2025 72" Today's Paper Volunteers from Central Union Church distributed food to those in need during the weekly food distribution event "Serving Aloha" on Wednesday, Nov. 26....

1+ week, 2+ day ago (779+ words) Friday, November 21, 2025 76" Today's Paper Today " Updated 11:11 p.m. Historic Mokuaikaua Congregational Church in Kailua-Kona is celebrating a grand re-opening tonight, Saturday and Sunday after a six-year repair and restoration project to repair structural damage that started with the 2006 Kiholo Earthquake. After six years of repairs and renovations, Hawaii's oldest Christian church is holding a grand reopening of its sanctuary doors. Mokuaikaua Church in Kailua-Kona is holding a three-day hoolaulea themed "E Ho'i Mai! Return!" The event begins tonight and continues Saturday and Sunday to celebrate the sanctuary's reopening, as well as the 205th anniversary of the historic house of worship. Mokuaikaua's congregation was established by Christian missionaries in 1820, with the church building completed in 1837. "So he said you'd better call a structural engineer and have him evaluate the structure for you. So we brought in a structural engineer, and he confirmed that we…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1247+ words) Thursday, November 27, 2025 70" Today's Paper Punahou eighth graders Connor Ueki, right, and Logan Miyasaki, second from right, assist volunteer lead Wendy Howell, middle, in sorting produce for distribution during Central Union Church's weekly food pantry handout "Serving Aloha" Wednesday in Honolulu. Lead volunteer Fanny Yeung, left, sorts bread during Central Union Church's weekly food pantry handout "Serving Aloha" Wednesday in Honolulu. On Thanksgiving Day, families gather in gratitude for a bountiful feast, but many are also struggling to put food on the table. Food insecurity in Hawaii, where the cost of living is especially high, is on the rise during a year fraught with upheaval, job cuts, inflation and a temporary suspension of food stamp benefits during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Oahu churches, many in partnership with the Hawaii Foodbank, are stepping up to feed the hungry " not just…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (608+ words) Thursday, November 13, 2025 75" Today's Paper By Kenneth Valencich Japan News TOKYO >> The wisdom of the Buddha may one day be in the palm of your hand, with a BuddhaBot icon on your phone nestled between the latest mobile game and a dating app. BuddhaBot is a chatbot that uses text based on Buddhist scripture to answer user questions. It was developed with the help of professor Seiji Kumagai of the Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human Society, who is also a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist monk. He spoke about the chatbot at a Foreign Press Center Japan briefing earlier this year. Kumagai is also working on Teraverse, an augmented reality system that displays Buddhist avatars in one's surroundings on a screen. While not yet available for public use, BuddhaBot is being used first by select monks in Bhutan after the…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago (861+ words) Saturday, November 29, 2025 70" Today's Paper By Joshua McElwee and Huseyin Hayatsever / Reuters MOHAMED AZAKIR / REUTERS A woman stands next to a poster depicting Pope Leo XIV at De La Croix Psychiatric Hospital in Jal el-Dib, Lebanon, on Nov. 19. REMO CASILLI / REUTERS Pope Leo XIV looks up during a general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vaticanon Wednesday. ANKARA, Turkey >> Pope Leo lamented during his first trip outside Italy as Catholic leader on Thursday that the world was seeing an unusual number of bloody conflicts, and warned that a third world war was being "fought piecemeal" with humanity's future at risk. In his first speech given overseas since his election in May to lead the 1.4 billion-member Church, Leo, the first U.S. pope, said "ambitions and choices that trample on justice and peace" were destabilizing the world. He told political leaders in Turkey…...