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With the onset of autumn comes the fruits of harvest time, celebrated by most North Americans through the Thanksgiving holiday. While the holiday will be celebrated this week in Canada, and not until the end of November in the United States, the cong...

TODAY St. James Church, Somerset. Rummage/bake sale, church hall, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. TOMORROW Emmanuel Methodist Church, Southampton Morning worship 11 a.m. Sermon: God's concern for the poor. Text: Luke 16:25. Preacher: Rev. Joseph Manchester. Furthe...

DALLAS (Reuters) – The growth of megachurches in the United States has spawned mega revenues, leading many to find the financial light and embrace transparency to assure their congregations that their offerings are well spent. Many now have come to r...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — When the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego filed for bankruptcy six months ago, it hoped to find shelter from potentially embarrassing and costly lawsuits from people claiming they were sexually abused by priests. Instead, the chur...

CALCUTTA, India (AP) — The destitute and the diseased still gather outside Mother Teresa's clinics in this sprawling city in eastern India, where the ethnic Albanian nun — known simply as "Mother" — dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the po...

TOMORROW Emmanuel Methodist Church, Southampton. Morning worship 11 a.m. Sermon series: Book of Revelation (series). Sermon topic: The Church with Christ on the outside. Text: Rev. 3:8. Tel. 238-1945. MONDAY Salvation Army, North Street Citadel. Lab...

"The poor you will always have with you." Jesus (Mark 14:7) WASHINGTON — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire who cares about the poor. At a Brookings Institute press conference this week, he asked, "Is leaving one in eight Americans i...

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have welcomed their newest elder, Elder Cody Jack Larsen. Hailing from Draper, Utah, a small town outside of Salt Lake City, Elder Larsen expressed his thrill of being in Bermuda. "I can't ex...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican's top diplomat accused the media of "shameful and mystifying" coverage of allegations of sexual abuse by Italian priests and suggested there might be a campaign against the Church. Vatican Secretary of State Tarci...

WONEWOC, Wisconsin (AP) – They see dead people on Spook Hill. They're walking around the grounds, sitting in the dining hall and in the pews at the abandoned church. Kids, heard by visitors but usually only seen by those trained to see into the spiri...