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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The pastor of a Los Angeles church has an idea he hopes will draw new followers and help his church reconnect with the community.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The Rev. Billy Graham will be 91 years old on Saturday.           ]]></description>
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STRASBOURG, France (AP) - Europe&#8217;s court of human rights says the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms.           ]]></description>
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AMELIA, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio village&#8217;s Christmas parade has been canceled amid concerns over possible lawsuits, protests and logistical problems.           ]]></description>
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ANGELUS OAKS, Calif. (AP) - A 60-year-old woman has been shot and killed at a religious camp in California&#8217;s San Bernardino Mountains.           ]]></description>
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NAVAJO, N.M. (AP) - The FBI says a nun has been found dead in her residence at a church in a small community on the Navajo Indian reservation near the Arizona-New Mexico border.           ]]></description>
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DENVER (AP) - Dr. James Dobson, the voice of Focus on the Family, will no longer host its flagship radio broadcast and is cutting formal ties with the Christian ministry he founded more than 30 years ago.           ]]></description>
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police have detained a man near the North Hollywood synagogue where two people were shot in the legs.           ]]></description>
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ALSTEAD, N.H. (AP) - Christians who believe they&#8217;ll vanish from Earth in the rapture can now hire a company to care for their pets.           ]]></description>
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A suburban New York City priest has pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from parish accounts, including a fund for victims of Hurricane Katrina.           ]]></description>
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CINCINNATI (AP) - An attorney for two Kentucky counties says courthouse displays of the Ten Commandments are for educational and historical purposes.           ]]></description>
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea&#8217;s state media says that the son of evangelist Billy Graham has left the North after a three-day trip.           ]]></description>
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ABERDEEN, Wash. (AP) - A man walking from Texas to his hometown in Washington state has had a cross to bear for months.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is taking on a long-running legal fight today over an 8-foot cross that stands as a war memorial in the vast Mojave National Preserve in California.           ]]></description>
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A federal appeals court in New Haven, Conn. has heard arguments about New York school officials&#8217; refusal to rent public school buildings to churches for weekend worship services.           ]]></description>
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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A New York school district has reportedly settled a lawsuit filed by a student who said officials refused to let him form a Bible club.           ]]></description>
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LONDON (AP) - Researchers say a new find near the famous Stonehenge monument shows the religious significance of the site.
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DETROIT (AP) - Two Maryland men are being sought in connection with a scheme that bilked 21 black churches across Michigan out of $660,000.           ]]></description>
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Columbia, Missouri&#8217;s first Catholic high school will be named after the nation&#8217;s first known black priest.           ]]></description>
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - A prominent African cardinal says there&#8217;s no reason why the next pope can&#8217;t be black.           ]]></description>
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TORONTO (AP) - A Roman Catholic bishop who oversaw a sex abuse settlement in his Canadian diocese has turned himself in after a warrant was issued for his arrest on child pornography charges.           ]]></description>
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DETROIT (AP) - The Rev. Lawrence Adams teaches his flock at Westside Bible Church to turn the other cheek. Just in case, though, the 54-year-old retired police lieutenant also wears a gun under his robe.           ]]></description>
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LODI, Calif. (AP) - In California, the Lodi City Council has voted unanimously to let religious leaders give uncensored prayers before meetings despite criticism that it promotes Christianity.           ]]></description>
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) - A Kentucky church&#8217;s newest minister is a convicted sex offender.           ]]></description>
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A prominent Muslim cleric has criticized a new Saudi university launched by King Abdullah for allowing men and women to take classes together.           ]]></description>
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TORONTO (AP) - Canadian authorities say a Roman Catholic bishop who oversaw his diocese&#8217;s settlement with victims of sex abuse is facing child pornography charges.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Mourners attending funerals in Washington, D.C. wouldn&#8217;t have to worry about getting parking tickets under a bill being considered by the D.C. Council.           ]]></description>
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BERLIN (AP) - A German court has ruled that a Berlin high school must provide a room where Muslim students can pray or otherwise be in violation of Germany&#8217;s guarantees of freedom of religion.           ]]></description>
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KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Police in Nepal say a church collapsed early Wednesday in the eastern part of the country, killing dozens of people. Dozens more were injured.           ]]></description>
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DETROIT (AP) - Pastor Lawrence Adams knows how to handle a gun after spending 25 years as a Detroit police officer, many at the department&#8217;s training academy.           ]]></description>
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a Jewish husband and wife were within their rights to disinherit any grandchildren who married outside the faith.           ]]></description>
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A new report finds that the growing number of Americans who don&#8217;t claim any religious affiliation are more likely to be male, young, living in the West and politically independent.           ]]></description>
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Americans are learning more about Islam, and familiarity with the faith makes people more likely to view Muslims favorably and less likely to believe Islam encourages violence, according to a new study.           ]]></description>
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PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, which could reopen a contentious debate about changing gender terms in the sacred text.           ]]></description>
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - State investigators have increased to $15,000 the reward being offered for information in the grisly slaying of a pastor at her small church in Anadarko, Oklahoma.           ]]></description>
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A public charter school is suing Idaho officials in federal court, saying the state illegally barred use of the Bible as an instructional text.           ]]></description>
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean is suing pageant officials for libel, slander and religious discrimination.           ]]></description>
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NEW YORK (AP) - Gospel legend Marie Knight has died in New York City at age 84. She came to prominence while touring with Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the 1940s and singing hits such as &#8220;Beams of Heaven.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - As many as 1,000 people have packed an Oklahoma church to remember a pastor who was killed as she prepared for a Sunday service.           ]]></description>
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The son of the pastor who was brutally killed inside her Oklahoma church says her funeral will be another chance for his mother to spread the word of God.           ]]></description>
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A spokesman says religious broadcaster Pat Robertson is recovering well after undergoing 10 hours of heart surgery in North Carolina.           ]]></description>
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the early retirement of a U.S. bishop who has denounced nuns for sponsoring lectures by gay-rights advocates and directed priests to deny communion to abortion backers.           ]]></description>
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - One of the Reverend Billy Graham&#8217;s daughters says he now has difficulty seeing, hearing and walking, but is still clear-minded and quick to pray about current events.           ]]></description>
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Authorities say whoever killed a pastor inside her small Oklahoma church &#8220;staged&#8221; the body, meaning it was moved into an unnatural position after the slaying.           ]]></description>
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - School officials in Iowa say they&#8217;ve tossed out plans for Bible classes to avoid possible litigation.           ]]></description>
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MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio school board has approved a $121,000 settlement with the family of a student who said his teacher burned the image of a cross on his arm.           ]]></description>
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ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) - Police in Oklahoma say authorities are reviewing video surveillance tapes for clues in the brutal killing of a pastor inside her church.           ]]></description>
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - After a series of flip-flops, authorities in Malaysia have decided that a 32-year old Muslim woman caught drinking beer in violation of Islamic law won&#8217;t be caned after all.           ]]></description>
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A judge says it&#8217;s unconstitutional to require the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge it can&#8217;t keep the state safe without God&#8217;s help.           ]]></description>
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ATLANTA (AP) - A stained glass window bearing the likeness of Martin Luther King Sr. has been returned to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta as part of a $4 million restoration project.           ]]></description>
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court says a Connecticut Roman Catholic Diocese cannot keep sealed thousands of documents from lawsuits accusing six priests of sexual abuse.           ]]></description>
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ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) - A prosecutor in Anadarko, Okla., has asked local clergy to meet with him Wednesday about the murder of a pastor whose body was found Sunday inside her small Pentecostal church.           ]]></description>
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ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) - Investigators want to talk to people who live near a small Pentecostal church in Anadarko, Okla., as they try to find the person who killed the church&#8217;s pastor.           ]]></description>
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The first woman in Muslim-majority Malaysia to face caning for drinking beer has been reprieved because this is the holy month of Ramadan.           ]]></description>
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The holiday tree can stay, but no more Nativity scene.           ]]></description>
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - A fan-shaped baptismal font lies beneath a prominent chandelier, the centerpiece to a new worship center where priests hope to further expand one of the nation&#8217;s largest Korean Catholic congregations.           ]]></description>
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Muslim model who will be beaten with a cane for drinking beer says she asked Malaysian authorities to punish her in public instead of in a prison, but they refused to make an exception to the rules.           ]]></description>
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CAIRO (AP) - The Egyptian head of antiquities has unveiled restoration work at a historic synagogue in Cairo, a project he denies was meant to assuage Jewish anger at Egypt&#8217;s culture minister.           ]]></description>
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WILLIAMSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - One of only two churches in Williamsville, Illinois, has been destroyed by a tornado that struck Wednesday afternoon.           ]]></description>
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MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) - A federal appeals court has reversed a federal judge&#8217;s order that religious displays be removed from a Christian store that offers postal services in Manchester, Connecticut.           ]]></description>
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The Maine Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that Portland city officials violated the rights of Afghan Muslims who want to use a building as a mosque.           ]]></description>
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho charter school&#8217;s plan to teach about the Bible has been blocked.           ]]></description>
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - An Italian priest who ran a shelter for homeless children in Brazil has been charged with sexually abusing boys for years and allowing visiting foreigners to exploit the children.           ]]></description>
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WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) - Police are looking for whoever stole the head off a statue of baby Jesus from St. Joseph&#8217;s Church in Wauwatosa, Wis.           ]]></description>
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Weather experts are looking into tornado reports after powerful winds ripped through Minneapolis, tearing off part of a 90-year-old metal church steeple.           ]]></description>
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CANYON, Texas (AP) - Preliminary autopsy results indicate that heat stroke killed a 24-year-old youth minister who died while hiking alone in Palo Duro Canyon, near Amarillo, Texas.           ]]></description>
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - A New Hampshire grand jury has indicted a Maine man who authorities say is linked to a 4-year-old church vandalism case through his blood.           ]]></description>
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is supporting religious license plates featuring the words &#8220;I Believe&#8221; that are being challenged in federal court.           ]]></description>
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PARIS (AP) - French officials say a Muslim woman wearing a head-to-toe swimsuit has been denied access to a public swimming pool in a town southeast of Paris.           ]]></description>
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MIAMI (AP) - Descendants of two of the country&#8217;s most influential evangelical leaders - Billy Graham and the late D. James Kennedy - are feuding over control of a Florida megachurch.           ]]></description>
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal appeals court has finished hearing arguments in the case of a suburban Dallas school district accused of banning Christmas messages and religious expression from the classroom.           ]]></description>
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - A new study suggests that college students who major in the humanities or social sciences become less religious, while education majors become more religious.           ]]></description>
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The daughter of the associate pastor of First Baptist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana, has died from injuries she suffered in a church bus accident last month in Mississippi.           ]]></description>
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A former Roman Catholic priest claims that a Connecticut bishop threatened to send him to live with nuns after he hired a private investigator to look into his pastor.           ]]></description>
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GILMER, Texas (AP) - Officials in east Texas say three people were injured when an SUV crashed into a church just as the Sunday morning service was about to start.           ]]></description>
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho is reviewing a new public charter school&#8217;s plans to use the Bible as a primary source of teaching material.           ]]></description>
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina minister has been charged with a sex crime against a 15-year-old boy.           ]]></description>
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WARROAD, Minn. (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service has notified a Minnesota pastor that it has closed its inquiry into complaints that he preached politics from the pulpit in violation of federal tax law.           ]]></description>
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