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Acrobatic feats example of faith
I remember a Holy Week a few years ago that wasn’t very holy for me. There was a spiritual smorgasbord of special events in my community honoring the religious holidays that fell during the week...

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College speech teacher learns to speak again after stroke
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Don Forss walks with a cane and speaks haltingly — measuring his words carefully before pushing them through his lips in a slow, slightly slurred cadence. But there’s no need...

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Church calendar
Special services Broadway United Methodist Church, Watoto Children’s Choir from Uganda will present a concert at 6 p.m. Saturday. The children are orphans resulting from the loss of their parent...

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Pastor preaches online to Pakistan
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Before the news broke locally in March, Carlton Potts was well aware of the religious conflict in Lahore, Pakistan. The Lafayette pastor preaches via Skype every week to a Christi...

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Church calendar
Special services Immanuel Baptist Church, 3465 Buckner Lane, will have an Easter Week service at noon today. There will be a reading of the passion narrative from the Gospel of Mark. At 7 p.m....

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Contributed photo
Students at Mid-Continent University celebrate Easter Week by carrying a 200-pound cross along U.S. 45 near the campus on a one-mile trek in Graves County. This is the third year for the tradition.

Bearing the cross
Contributed photo Students at Mid-Continent University celebrate Easter Week by carrying a 200-pound cross along U.S. 45 near the campus on a one-mile trek in Graves County. This is the third ye...

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Pope Francis names bishop successor
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Pope Francis has made his first appointment of a bishop, naming Mario Poli on Thursday to succeed him as archbishop of Buenos Aires and the top churchman in Argentina. ...

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Associated Press
Diogo Morcaldo (center), as Jesus, is baptized by Daniel Percival, as John, in a scene from "The Bible." The History network's first installment of the miniseries "The Bible" was seen by 13.1 million people on March 3. The series concludes Easter Sunday.

Seeing can be believing
If you’ve missed “The Bible,” airing on the History Channel, you’ve missed something worth watching. The miniseries, co-produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, is well done. The premiere episode ...

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Associated Press
Pope Francis washes the foot of an inmate Thursday at the juvenile detention center of Casal del Marmo, Rome. Francis washed the feet of a dozen inmates at a juvenile detention center in a Holy Thursday ritual that he celebrated for years as archbishop and is continuing now that he is pope.

Pope washes feet of young detainees
ROME — Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of a dozen inmates at a juvenile detention center in a Holy Thursday ritual that he celebrated for years as archbishop and is continuing now that he i...

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Maundy Thursday service offers meaningful symbolism
As I sat in a Maundy Thursday service one Easter season many years ago, facing the huge round stained glass image at the front of the church, my eyes were continually pulled to the picture. The ima...

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