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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — A US federal appeals court dismissed a case on Monday in which a Las Vegas attorney argued his Mormon religion should exempt him from Social Security taxes.“I don’t believe in it, I don’t like it, I think it is Satanic,” Jon...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI accused the media of promoting sexual immorality as he canonised Brazil’s first native-born saint Friday before hundreds of thousands of faithful and a sea of flags from the world’s largest Catholic nation.H...

CAMARILLO, California (AP) — A man who retired after 32 years as an Episcopal priest in Massachusetts was ordained as the first married priest in the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese.The Rev. Bill Lowe was ordained Sunday by Cardinal Roger Maho...

CHICAGO (Reuters) — An African archbishop’s defiant intervention in the US Episcopal Church has sent new shock waves through a global Anglican church already badly divided and facing possible schism over gay issues.Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria...

TOMORROW Diocesean Guilds Awards tea, St. Paul’s Christian Education Centre, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: $5. Further information: Mrs. Mildred Hill 238-1166. Vernon Temple AME Church Mother’s Day services: 7 a.m. Preacher Sis. Georgette Godwin. 11 a...

MUMBAI (Reuters) — Hindu hardliners attacked two Christian missionaries in public in western India on Tuesday, the latest violence against priests accused by right-wing groups of trying to convert lower-caste Hindus to Christianity.Indian TV channels...

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — A woman of quiet faith on most days, Lucille Mills transforms each Sunday into the Rev. CeCee — a foot-stompin’ minister who can match hallelujah’s with the best Southern preachers.Like black ministers across Virginia, she a...

For two centuries the West has sent missionaries to covert the heathen in Africa and Asia. Last weekend Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola installed Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, a native of England, as the Missionary Bishop of CANA, the Convocation of Angli...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A victims’ rights group released documents yesterday that showed the Jehovah’s Witnesses recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually abused by church elders or that church officials failed to...

Marsden First United Methodist Church on South Shore Road, Smith’s will celebrate Heritage Month with a special service on Sunday, May 20 at 10.30 a.m., highlighting the beginnings of the Marsden congregation. “The church’s ‘Genesis Heritage Service’...