1+ week, 3+ day ago (1024+ words) All Saints Orthodox Church: 211 Willow Ave., Olyphant, offers a frozen pierogi sale from 9 to 11 a.m. every Friday and 10:30 a.m. to noon every Sunday in the church basement. Christ Episcopal Church Forest City: Delaware Street, will conduct its annual homemade soup, Welsh cookies and cabbage and noodles sale to benefit the church's community programs. Assorted homemade soups are $5 per pint; cabbage and noodles, $7 per pint, and Welsh cookies, $7 per dozen, for sale each Friday, from 3 to 5:30 p.m., starting Dec. 5 through April 3. Christ the King Parish: will sponsor a Christmas cookie sale at Sacred Heart of Mary Church, 624 Madison Ave., Jermyn, on Dec. 20 in the parish center from 9 a.m. to noon. The home-baked holiday treats are available in one-pound packages for $12 or two-pound packages for $20. Sacred Heart of Jesus Church: hosts a food giveaway from 1 to 2 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month. Giveaways are sponsored by…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (539+ words) SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. " Elected officials and community leaders touted the importance of faith in daily life and governance during the NEPA Prayer Breakfast. Elected Republican leaders, along with pastors, students, families, teachers and administrators from Summit Christian Academy gathered Wednesday for the breakfast, hosted by the South Abington Twp. school, at Best Western. U.S. Reps. Rob Bresnahan, R-8, Dallas Twp., and Dan Meuser, R-9, Jackson Twp. acknowledged veterans and military members in their remarks. Bresnahan spoke about the bill he introduced that would authorize President Donald Trump to award the Medal of Honor to retired Air Force Col. Robert Graham, a native of Nuangola. Graham, who lives in New England, was a captain when he flew a heavily damaged F-100 Super Sabre through monsoon conditions in Vietnam in 1966. He made more than 15 low-level attack passes under artillery fire, destroying eight enemy gun positions and…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago (219+ words) Editor: Sadly, with the increased civil unrest in our country, our nation may be facing rebellious times. An indicator of this unrest is apparent with some who celebrate the killing of Charlie Kirk. Some in authority in our country are concerned that civil conflict could be on the horizon. How many today ever thought we would witness the scope of this moral decay in our lifetime? To some extent, the murder of Kirk presages the possibility of civil war and, worse yet, a religious persecution for defending a higher moral law. Put simply, the cause is that may are not in conformity with God's will. "If they resisted this guidance and instead of following the motion set for them, they followed a different one, they would soon fall into the utmost confusion and destroy the world." It is the same…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (90+ words) St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, 600 E. Lackawanna St., Olyphant, sold over 400 dozen fresh and fried pierogies at a fundraiser Oct. 13. St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, 600 E. Lackawanna St., Olyphant, sold over 400 dozen fresh and fried pierogies at a fundraiser Oct. 13. The church holds this particular fundraiser twice a year, but selling pierogies has been an ongoing tradition for over 50 years. The Rev. Nathan Clausson, pastor, worked alongside volunteers as they took orders and bagged the pierogies for each customer. More in Valley Advantage Around Town...

2+ week, 2+ day ago (504+ words) SCRANTON " Catholic Social Services will now operate the city's emergency "code blue" overnight homeless shelter at Weston Field House during extreme cold or snowy weather, the mayor and CSC announced Wednesday. Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton replaces the financially struggling Keystone Mission as the operator of the code blue shelter at Weston Field House, 982 Providence Road. The Christian-based Keystone Mission and the city first partnered in 2019 to open the code blue shelter at Weston Field House during frigid weather. Keystone Mission also used Weston Field House in 2020 as a temporary homeless shelter during the COVID-19 state of emergency. During a code blue event in February when temperatures dropped to 9 degrees, the code blue shelter opened several hours late because of a Keystone Mission staffing shortage, according to archives of The Times-Tribune. Then in the summer, the mission…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago (1159+ words) Leo is fulfilling a trip Pope Francis planned to make, to mark an important anniversary with the Orthodox church in Turkey. In Lebanon, he'll try to boost a long-suffering Christian community as well as Lebanese of all faiths who are still demanding justice over the 2020 Beirut port blast. Leo, who spent 12 years as superior of his Augustinian religious order and two decades as a missionary in Peru, says he loves to travel. And in recent weeks, he has shown both diplomatic and linguistic dexterity in answering questions on the fly from reporters. The trip is being covered closely by U.S. media, with all major U.S. networks " ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox as well as CNN and the BBC " inside Leo's traveling pool, following his speeches, homilies and prayers at a crucial moment in negotiations to end Russia's war in Ukraine and maintain…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago (77+ words) Sister Marionette Coll, I.H.M., marks her 104th birthday with the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Dunmore Sister Marionette Coll, I.H.M., celebrated her 104th birthday Monday with the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at Our Lady of Peace Residence dining room in Dunmore. The congregation said Sister Marionette is its oldest sister and "a champion Scrabble player." More in Local News...