Clergy from various local Christian churches joined Bishop Larry Silva and dozens of faithful for a Taize prayer service at the Newman Center at the University of Hawaii-Manoa Jan. 21. The Taize service was one of the events commemorating the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which this year took place Jan. 18-25. At top, congregants bow in prayer on a large iconographic cross. Conference minister of the United Church of Christ Charles Buck, bottom right, and Right Rev. Robert L. Fitzpatrick of Hawaii’s Episcopal Church, bottom left, read prayers during the service. (HCH photos | Darlene Deal Cruz)