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Evangelist Haggard starting church at home

Thursday 05th of November 2009 12:18:58 PM
COLORADO SPRINGS, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Evangelical preacher Ted Haggard said he is planning to start a new church at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo. The New Life Church founder said he would hold a prayer meeting at his Colorado Springs home on Nov. 17 as part of his efforts to form a new church focused on helping others, The (Colorado Springs, Colo.) Gaz...
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Church of Scientology convicted in France

Tuesday 27th of October 2009 12:16:42 PM
PARIS, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The Church of Scientology Tuesday was convicted of fraud and six of its members ordered to pay as much as $595,000 each, prosecutors in France said. The two plaintiffs in the trial testified the church and its members defrauded them through the use of a so-called electropsychometer, or E-Meter, that allegedly measures spiritual well-bein...
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Simple lifestyle tweaks key in climate change fight: study

Monday 26th of October 2009 05:15:14 PM
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The United States could cut greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of France's total annual emissions by getting Americans to make simple lifestyle changes, like regularly maintaining their cars or insulating their attics, a study showed M...
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Anglican bishop may join Catholics

Saturday 24th of October 2009 08:02:09 PM
CHICHESTER, England, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A senior Anglican bishop says he is contemplating taking up Pope Benedict XVI's invitation to Anglican clergy to convert to the Roman Catholic Church. The Right Rev. John Hind, bishop of Chichester, says divisions within Anglicanism have pushed him to consider becoming a Catholic, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday....
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Church janitor charged with killing priest

Saturday 24th of October 2009 06:26:01 PM
MORRISTOWN, N.J., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A janitor at a Catholic church in New Jersey was charged Saturday with killing a priest whose body was found in the kitchen of the church rectory. Jose Feliciano, 64, allegedly stabbed the Rev. Edward Hinds, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said at a news conference. Investigators said the priest had been stabbed 32 ti...
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Catholic priest killed in church rectory

Friday 23rd of October 2009 06:38:01 PM
CHATHAM, N.J., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The pastor of a Roman Catholic church in a New Jersey suburb was found slain in the rectory kitchen Friday morning. A deacon went to search for the Rev. Edward Hinds, 61, when he failed to appear for the 8 a.m. mass at St. Patrick's Church in Chatham, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported. The priest's body was on the floor in the ...
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Historic church bell to toll again

Friday 23rd of October 2009 06:21:32 PM
BRIDGEWATER, Mass., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts church bell will toll again after 20 years of silence, thanks to volunteers who restored it to its former glory, the church's pastor said. Cast in 1862 in Boston, the bell rang in the tower of Bridgewater's Central Square Congregational Church for 120 years before the foundation structure became too weak for...
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Condolences sent to living soldier's wife

Friday 23rd of October 2009 01:37:13 PM
OTTAWA, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The wife of a retired and healthy Canadian soldier said she's appalled at receiving a letter of condolence from an insurance company about his death. Lisa Scott, 45, told the Ottawa Citizen she opened a letter from the insurance company soon after her husband set out on a city bus for a haircut this week and couldn't believe her eyes.
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Lifestyle changes key to treating PAD

Friday 23rd of October 2009 12:40:41 PM
DUBLIN, Ireland, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Irish and British researchers say risk-reducing lifestyle changes are still key to treating peripheral arterial disease. PAD occurs when plaque accumulates in arteries that supply blood to areas of the body other than the heart and brain. The study, published in the Journal of Vascular and Intervention Radiology, found ...
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Church of Sweden to conduct gay weddings

Thursday 22nd of October 2009 08:08:04 PM
UPPSALA, Sweden, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The Lutheran Church of Sweden, of which 74 percent of Swedes are members, announced Thursday it will conduct wedding ceremonies for homosexuals. The governing board of the Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden in Uppsala, Sweden, passed the gay wedding proposal 176-73, the Swedish News Agency TT reported. The decision...
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Catholic scholar: Marx worth studying

Thursday 22nd of October 2009 04:52:41 PM
VATICAN CITY, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Karl Marx, known for his hostility to religion, had relevant theories on social alienation, a Catholic scholar said in the Vatican newspaper. Georg Sans, a professor of contemporary philosophy at Gregorian University, the pontifical university in Rome, said Marxian thought may help guide people at a time of search for a ...
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Beer-friendly church meets at bar

Tuesday 20th of October 2009 06:41:41 PM
JANESVILLE, Wis., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin woman who leads weekly church services at a pub said t is perfect for preaching to the wounded. Kathy Price of Beloit said The Red Door ministry holds services at 10:30 a.m. every Sunday at the Willowdale Saloon in Janesville and the dozen or so parishioners are allowed alcoholic drinks and cigarettes durin...
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Lifestyle, not alcohol, may stem decline

Monday 19th of October 2009 05:50:08 PM
FERRARA, Italy, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Italian researchers say lifestyle related characteristics -- rather than alcohol -- may affect functional decline in drinkers. The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, finds participants consuming moderate levels of alcohol had the lowest incidence of mobility limitation and disability. ...
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Church settles abuse case

Wednesday 14th of October 2009 02:40:43 PM
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The Washington Archdiocese has settled a lawsuit brought by a man who says he was molested by a priest who later broke with the Catholic church. Church officials said the victim would be paid $125,000. The man said he was molested at the age of 14 by two men, the Rev. George Stallings Jr., then at St. Teresa of Avila Church i...
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Churches and parishioners adapt to flu

Monday 12th of October 2009 09:55:56 PM
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Churches in the Pittsburgh area are taking steps to keep parishioners healthy in the face of a possible swine flu pandemic, church officials said. In Catholic churches, parishioners are dispensing with the traditional passing of the peace through a handshake and opting instead for a nod or a bow. At St. John Evangelical Lutheran Chu...
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Scientists grow living 'heart patch'

Monday 12th of October 2009 04:21:23 PM
DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. bioengineers say they have successfully mimicked the way embryonic stem cells develop into heart muscle in a lab study. Duke University researchers say their achievement using mouse embryonic stem cells is a important first step toward growing a living heart patch to repair heart tissue damaged by disease. The ...
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LDS churches in Utah targeted by vandals

Monday 12th of October 2009 12:20:42 PM
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Vandals threw rocks laden with antagonistic messages through the glass doors of Five Latter Day Saints churches in Utah, police said. Police in South Jordan, Utah, said the typewritten messages attached to the thrown rocks last weekend read Stop spreading your lies, pagans, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Monday. ...
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Loud church-goers told to pipe down

Sunday 11th of October 2009 04:30:10 PM
LONDON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A London church can no longer amplify its hymns and sermons after neighbors complained, the Pentecostal church's pastor says. All Nations Centre pastor Victor Jibuike said a Lambeth Council decision in response to a complaint to town hall that left his congregation of 600 people under orders to quiet down wasn't about volume levels, The...
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Swedish church opens gas station

Thursday 08th of October 2009 04:30:10 PM
TARNSJO, Sweden, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The Church of Sweden said it is preparing to open the country's first church-operated gas station near a town with no other fuel pumps. The gas station near the village of Tarnsjo, which hasn't had its own gas station since last winter, is set for a grand opening Saturday alongside a connected convenience store, The Local repor...
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Hong Kong's luxury living draws mainland Chinese

Saturday 03rd of October 2009 11:30:31 PM
by Eleanor Wason HONG KONG (AFP) -- Mainland Chinese once fled to the slums of Hong Kong's Kowloon to escape poverty, war and communism but many mainlanders in the district these days are seeking swimming pools and harbour views.A rising number of mainland bu...
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