Join the Comparison Project at their next Meet My Religious Neighbor event visiting the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Iowa for a Holi celebration! There will be holi homa (fire), color-throwing, and a meal served.

Enjoy multi-cultural snacks, take a tour of the mosque, lean about Islam, and meet the diverse community that worships here! Modest dress recommended.

Two Centuries of Family and Faith Saturday, February 8, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 3301 Ashworth Road, West Des Moines, IA 50265 Find your ancestors in the family history center, sing with young people, and learn more about core doctrines while enjoying food and fellowship at an open house that shows how faith functions in the lives of the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is a bicentennial…

The “Meet My Religious Neighbor” open-house series continues March 8 with the celebration of Holi, beginning at 11am at the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center, 33916 155th Lane, Madrid Iowa 50156. Holi is an important occasion in the Hindu tradition. The festival signifies the arrival of spring, the end of winter, and the beginning of a good spring harvest season. For many, it is a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive. Join us at the…

Please join us on Sunday, April 19, for the annual Lao New Year’s Service at the Wat Lao Buddhist Temple on East Park Ave. The event will include a “Tak Bat,” in which lay members of the temple donate “alms” to their Buddhist monks; this food later comes back to the community “blessed.” The service includes a washing of the temple’s Buddha statues, as well as a ritual sprinkling of water on the congregation, both of which symbolically remove any…