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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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Joplin mosque members encouraged by support
JOPLIN, Mo. — Members of Joplin’s Islamic community whose mosque was destroyed in a recent fire hope to call on the camaraderie that the southwest Missouri city displayed in the wake of last year’s...
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Associated Press Biblical scholar professor Menachem Cohen reads from a book at the library of Bar Ilan University, outside Tel Aviv, Israel. For the past 30 years the 84-year-old Judaic biblical scholar has been immersed in a Sisyphean task of correcting all known errors in Jewish scripture to produce a definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible.
Scholar completes mission to ‘fix’ Bible
RAMAT GAN, Israel — For 30 years, Israeli Judaic scholar Menachem Cohen has been on a mission of biblical proportions: correcting all known textual errors in Jewish scripture to produce a truly def...
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Church Calendar
Special services Lexie B. Ray, minister of the Fairdealing Church of Christ in Benton, will speak in a gospel meeting at the Kirksey Church of Christ on Aug. 12-14. Sunday hours are 10 a.m., 10:...
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Associated Press Rabbi Yaakov Perlow addresses a large crowd of Orthodox Jews at MetLife stadium Wednesday in East Rutherford, N.J, during the celebration Siyum HaShas. It marks the completion of the Daf Yomi, or daily reading and study of one page of the 2,711 page book.
Thousands complete reading of Jewish Talmud
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — In a sports stadium transformed into what was called the world’s largest synagogue, tens of thousands of people celebrated the completion of the reading of the Talmud, the b...
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Missouri: Voters to consider defense of public prayer
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri voters are considering a constitutional amendment about prayer. The proposal states people can pray as long as they do not disturb the peace. In addition, the cons...
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