(JTA) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was gifted a traditional Jewish prayer shawl by a pastor during a visit to a black church in Detroit. Bishop Wayne Jackson of the Great ...

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Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora blessed 76 handmade prayer shawls during Sunday worship. On behalf of United Women in Faith, a church women's group, Aurora resident Mari Curless led a ...

More specifically, the Ladies of Faith Alive Church Prayer Shawl Ministry in Bowmanstown make memory blankets for Alzheimer’s patients. The group crochets various items such as prayer shawls ...

This Christmas season, the First United Methodist Church’s Prayer Shawl ministry donated prayer shawls to Kearney-area non-profits. Some of the recipients were Crossroads Mission Avenue ...

At any given time, there are 12 members who crochet and/or knit triangular prayer shawls. "We do meet the second Thursday of the month to pray over the completed shawls and attach a prayer," said ...

Taking things a step further, the group meet every Friday to knit items for Sanford patients ... and scattered out there knitting… knitting the prayer shawls,” Gaarder said.

Prayer shawls, knit entirely by the volunteers of NewDay Foundation, are given to cancer patients as they receive their first chemotherapy treatment. Each shawl is wrapped and presented with a ...

That’s when Parver, the director of operations at the Hebrew Free Burial Association in New York City, put out a call for donations of prayer shawls for traditional Jewish burials. Less than 48 ...