Hundred of prayer shawls arrive after Hebrew Free Burial puts out call Less than 48 hours later, he had collected 150 himself and pledges of hundreds more to come from as far away as South Florida and ...

Knitting and praying go hand in hand for the Prayer Shawl Ministry at NorthHaven Church. Inside the conference room on a Monday night, about a dozen women ranging in age 16 to about 80 have gathered ...

"Knit three … purl three … knit three … purl three … and please, God, bless the person who will wrap this prayer shawl around them." So goes the solitary ...

“By knitting in a very contemplative way, we’re praying for the person who’s going to get the shawl,” said Teresa Knipper, of Princeton, founder of the Prayer Shawl Ministry at St. Paul Roman Catholic ...