Festivities in Focus

Thousands gathered on Sunday to mark the two-day Ethiopian Orthodox holiday after two years of the pandemic and the Tigray war.

On the rainy bank of the Pilchuck River in Snohomish, a growing St. Thomas Orthodox Church celebrated the Holy Trinity and the baptism of Jesus.

A NAAM gathering on the fourth day of the secular pan-African holiday honored the principle of Ujamaa, or cooperative economics.

St. James's nine-day Advent Mass draws hundreds from all over Western Washington.

As the days grow darker, the Festivities in Focus project aims to celebrate joy within a barrage of often difficult news.

After a pandemic hiatus, the Day of the Dead event returned to Seattle's El Centro de la Raza.

People gathered on Monday night — some for the first time since 2019 — to celebrate the Hindu Festival of Lights.