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WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservative Christian and traditional Roman Catholic leaders have issued a declaration and warning today on what they&#8217;re calling &#8220;moral issues of great concern.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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ROME (AP) - A Vatican researcher claims she has found a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin and says the discovery proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus&#8217; burial cloth.           ]]></description>
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A woman who sued the University of Nebraska last year saying the school fired her because she is a witch has agreed to settle the case for $40,000.           ]]></description>
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NEW YORK (AP) - A New York pastor accused of using church funds to pay for plastic surgery has been ordered to serve five years probation.           ]]></description>
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ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia&#8217;s top fire official is urging churches to bolster security after two metro Atlanta churches were set ablaze.           ]]></description>
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HOLCOMB, Miss. (AP) - Members of a tiny Mississippi church are mourning the loss of their pastor who was found stabbed to death in his home this past weekend.           ]]></description>
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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey high school student claims in a federal lawsuit that administrators violated her religious and free-speech rights by barring her participation in a silent abortion protest.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a valedictorian who complained that high school officials violated her constitutional rights when they turned off her microphone when she started sharing her faith during her graduation speech.           ]]></description>
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of students who accuse their Tennessee school district of unconstitutionally promoting Christianity.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The Rev. Billy Graham&#8217;s son says that at his father&#8217;s 91st birthday celebration Saturday, the legendary evangelist invited the family back to celebrate his 95th birthday.           ]]></description>
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BOSTON (AP) - The driver of a Boston subway train that stopped just inches short of a woman who had fallen onto the tracks says she expected the worst.           ]]></description>
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DETROIT (AP) - A man shot by a pastor during a burglary at a Detroit church has been sentenced to one to 10 years in prison.           ]]></description>
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PHOENIX (AP) - The kitchen is closed at a Phoenix church that fed the homeless.           ]]></description>
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that South Carolina cannot issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window with the phrase &#8220;I Believe.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Police in Buffalo, N.Y., say a pastor has admitted he was the gunman who fatally shot a teenager nearly 12 years ago.           ]]></description>
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GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization says it expects GlaxoSmithKline to complete shipping donations of swine flu vaccine to poor countries by May 2010.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The Billy Graham Library will close for three months next year for renovations.           ]]></description>
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NEW YORK (AP) - A 16th century Hebrew Bible looted by the Nazis six decades ago has been returned to the Jewish community in Vienna, Austria.           ]]></description>
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ATLANTA (AP) - An Atlanta city bus driver has been suspended for five days after passengers said he insisted they hold hands as he led them in prayer.           ]]></description>
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GROVE HILL, Ala. (AP) - Federal agents say they&#8217;re searching for an Alabama preacher who&#8217;s facing arson charges in connection with a fire at his church.           ]]></description>
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Federal agents have made an arrest in connection with the slaying of a nun on the Navajo Indian reservation in New Mexico.           ]]></description>
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NEW YORK (AP) - Oprah Winfrey says she&#8217;s keeping singer BeBe Winans off her show until domestic violence charges against him are resolved.           ]]></description>
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The tall, decorated tree on the Kentucky Capitol&#8217;s front lawn this holiday season will be called a &#8220;Christmas&#8221; tree after all.           ]]></description>
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LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) - A joint publishing venture between influential pastor Rick Warren and Reader&#8217;s Digest magazine has collapsed less than a year after it was announced with great fanfare.           ]]></description>
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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