An annual Christmas dinner serves more than 800 homeless Utahns Friday at St. Vincent de Paul Dining Hall in downtown Salt Lake City.

Refugee families receive blankets, clothing, coats, hygiene kits, detergent, rice, oil, spices, potatoes, fruit, vegetables and bread on Christmas day. No Christmas themed items are included, yet the items are representative of as unity and celebration of all refugees. December 25, 2015. Shalom, Salaam – Tikkun Olam Christmas Day Project, a project that reaches hundreds…

Photos by Al Hartmann, Steve Griffin, Trent Nelson

Therill Tso, of the Native American Church of A’Shii’be’to (meaning Salt Lake), presents a portrait of Quanah Parker to Primary Children’s Hospital for display in the hospital’s Meditation Chapel. It will join items representing many faith traditions that help create a spiritual atmosphere in the chapel. The print, entitled “Hope, Faith, Strength, Courage & Healing,”…

Monday’s storm may have blocked roads with buckets of snow, but northern Utah is going to need much more of the same if it’s going to break its four-year-long drought. The storm hit the Salt Lake Valley with enough snow to put Dec. 14, 2015, in the National Weather Service record books — on the…

Utah children in need received hundreds of new coats Saturday from the Utah Knights of Columbus. Families were invited to select coats at Catholic Community Services of Utah’s St. Vincent de Paul Dining Hall in downtown Salt Lake City.