HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Several congregations in Huntsville and other cities have found tangible ways to wrap people in prayer through making and giving away crocheted shawls and hand-knit blankets. The ...

Among the women from Saints Peter and Paul Church in Plains Township who have been making baby hats for the Tiny Angel Gowns project are, from left, Priscilla Marchak Valeski, Irene Hanratty Martin, ...

The First Presbyterian Church Prayer Shawl Ministry in Goshen began in 2007 and recently marked its 5th anniversary. Prayer Shawls, lap robes and baby blankets have been hand crocheted by members of ...

NORRISTOWN >> A group of women at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Norristown are using their spirituality, their knitting needles and a rainbow of colors to reach out to Pope Francis during ...

The group of women sat around a table at Broadway Court Estates Friday, crochet hooks in hand, as activities assistant Sarah Ivie dumped bags of new skeins of yarn on the table. “Oh, I like that one,” ...

At Ephrata Community Hospital, a special ministry is providing comfort to patients through knitted and crocheted shawls. For the past year and a half, a group of women has been gathering the first ...

"I feel the arms of our Lord are around me," wrote Mary in a thank you note to Grace Lutheran Church in Hendersonville after she'd received a Prayer Shawl knitted by Skip Andersen, church coordinator ...

After her father’s cancer-related death in 2010, Laurie Kennedy took to her rocking chair and burrito-wrapped herself in a prayer shawl. Though ancient Jewish men first wore them to show reverence ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- You don't hear needles clicking and clacking at The Buckingham retirement community, even as women knit colorful shawls. There's too much activity. 1 of 28 If you're viewing on our ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — It's a story about about finding hope in the darkest of circumstances. In 2009, a prayer shawl program started at Indiana University Health West. "We give those to patients when ...