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THE VANCOUVER USA SINGERS will perform at 7:30 p.m. tonight and 3 p.m. Sunday at Northside Baptist Church, 5201 N.E. Minnehaha, Vancouver. Two young sing ...more.
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Police: Man with rifle wounds 3 outside LA church
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police said. Shots rang out shortly before 11 a.m. outside St. John Baptist de la Salle, a Ro... |
Pope Benedict pens prayer for Chinese Catholics
 VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has written a special prayer for Chinese Catholics who face "daily trials" in the officially atheistic country, the Vatican said Friday. The prayer will be uttered across the world on May 24, a day the pope has dedicated to pra... |
In Qatar, Muslim, Jewish clerics meet
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- More than a dozen rabbis, including two from Israel, were in attendance this week as this conservative Muslim sheikdom opened one of the Gulf's first scholarly centers dedicated to interfaith dialogue. The rare meeting of Muslim, Christian and Je... |
Spree of jewel heists puts Houston dealers on edge
HOUSTON (AP) -- Brazen jewel thieves are robbing traveling dealers around Houston in a spree of heists that has jewelers on edge. Police say the fourth holdup in three weeks occurred Thursday when three masked men walked into a restaurant, pistol-whipped a dealer in... |
Religion in the news
 TRAMOUNG CHRUM, Cambodia (AP) -- When residents of this poor, Cambodian village need something built, they call on the Lightmans. The Jewish-American family's latest gift: a mosque. "We never had such a beautiful mosque in our village," said 81-year-old Leb Sen, a toothl... |
Order that sat out LA abuse settlement makes deal
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Catholic order of priests that refused to join a record sex-abuse settlement between accusers and the Los Angeles Archdiocese has reached a deal, an attorney for the plaintiffs said. The Salesian Society of Catholic priests reached a $19.5 mill... |
Ellison, Carson urge US to take action in Darfur
 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress' two Muslim members urged the U.S. government on Wednesday to lead efforts to end the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced. Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota and An... |
Reports: Acquittals overturn in Vatican Radio case
ROME (AP) -- Italy's top criminal court overturned the acquittals of a Vatican cardinal and another top churchman accused of environmental pollution involving a Vatican Radio transmission tower near Rome, news reports said Tuesday night. The Court of Cassation order... |
Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted... |
Ga. church tempts worshippers with $500 gas raffle
SNELLVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- So much for spaghetti suppers: The First Baptist Church of Snellville is fueling its membership drive with a sign in front of its sprawling campus proclaiming "Free Gasoline." There's a catch, of course. The offer is a not a giveaway. Instead... |
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