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Special services Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 1213 Walter Jetton Blvd., will honor its minister of music (George Donelson) at 6 p.m. Saturday. Rev. Michael J. Wade is host pastor.  Com...
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Associated Press The 20th century Ecce Homo-style fresco of Christ before (left) and after (right) is displayed in this undated combination photo. An amateur artist Celia Gimenez, 80, took it upon herself to restore it in the church of the northern Spanish agricultural town of Borja.
Painting of Christ disfigured in Spain
MADRID — A small Spanish town is trying to figure out what to do with a 20th-century painting of Christ that has been disfigured by a local artist who was trying to restore it. Juan Maria Ojeda,...
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Catholic school enrollment up in tiny Kansas district
OST, Kan. — While many rural schools are struggling to survive as their student population declines, St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Ost, a far southeast Reno County community that barely qualifies...
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Special services The White Oak Missionary Baptist Church will observe its 132nd anniversary at 3 p.m. Sunday. The special guests will be Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn Duncan, choir, officers, auxiliaries, ...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service New Life Evangelistic Church stands abandoned in Philadelphia's Fairhill section. The one-time Catholic church is in ruins, its timbers exposed and rotting.
Empty sacred spaces become white elephants
PHILADELPHIA — Hunger, health care, and urban violence are the usual subjects of concern when the Religious Leaders Council of Greater Philadelphia gathers for its semiannual meetings. But at th...
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Associated Press  Parishioners take communion at the Flora Bama Lounge, Package and Oyster Bar in Pensacola, Fla. The iconic bar, which sits on the Florida and Alabama line, is home to about 450 congregants of Worship at the Water, an outreach service of Perdido Key United Methodist Church.
Bibles, booze mix on Sunday mornings at iconic bar
PERDIDO KEY, Fla. — On a balmy Sunday morning at the Flora-Bama Lounge, Package and Oyster Bar, barkeeps set up their stations as churchgoers filtered in under a Jack Daniels banner. The iconic ...
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Associated Press World Trade Center construction workers hold hands during a prayer at a ceremony for the Sept. 11 cross. A judge should toss out a lawsuit by a national atheists group seeking to stop display of the beam found among trade center wreckage, lawyers for the operators of the Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero say.
Sept. 11 memorial managers defend display of steel cross
NEW YORK  — A judge should toss out a lawsuit by a national atheists group seeking to stop the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among the wreckage of the World Trade Center, lawyers for t...
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Associated Press Progressive National Baptist Convention member Merdean Gales of St Loius, Mo., belts out hymns as a crowd of PNBC members descend on the Civil Rights Museum Monday in Memphis, Tenn., for a ceremony in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Progressive National Baptists gather in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Progressive National Baptist Convention will wind up its 51st annual gathering in Memphis on Friday. As many as 4,000 members of the denomination were expected to attend. ...
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Associated Press Volunteer pastors Douglas and Magarita Barr-Hamilton roam the St. Pancras station as they look for people to help Wednesday in London. Roaming London's transport network in blue baseball caps are 300 volunteer "games pastors" from a range of Christian denominations. Deployed at airports and train stations, they are ready to step into the most trivial or most serious situation, from a lost contact lens to a potential suicide.
Olympic ‘games pastors’ minister to games-goers
LONDON — At the Olympics, it’s not just the athletes who go faster, higher and stronger. So do the emotions of spectators at this vast, dramatic and often confusing event. Amid the mayhem, a rel...
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Missouri voters OK ‘Right to Pray’ amendment 5-1
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment that supporters said will protect religious freedom. Amendment 2 says Missourians’ right to ex...
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