Black vicar backs Church racism claim.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  April 17, 1999 ;     538 words ...Most Church of England members and leaders in Birmingham...such as Islam because of the attitude of white church-goers, according to the Rev Jemima Prasadam, the Vicar of St Paul and St Silas Church in Lozells, Handsworth. She said the problem...

Divorced couples to remarry in church

The Independent - London;  January 23, 2000 ;     700+ words ...THE CHURCH of England will take the first step towards letting divorced couples remarry in church with the publication next week of a controversial...caused bitter divisions. On Tuesday the Church authorities will release the results of...

The road less traveled Christians find alternative worship away from...

The Gazette;  August 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Church is the big building with the steeple on it. Church is the house two doors down. Church is the strip-mall coffee shop. Church is the deeply wooded hiking trail. Church, for better or worse...

ESSAYS on faith: Loving, caring believers can make the church relevant in...

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  July 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Church attendance in the United States is down by several percentage...points from just a few years ago. Eighty percent of recorded church membership growth comes not from new converts but from...demand loyalty or make any demands upon one's time. The church is losing its influence upon society. Every ...

Faith & Reason: Confessions of a 47/52ths church-goer

The Independent - London;  November 15, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Church attendance is down again. Paul Handley has a sneaking suspicion...vicars or women priests. It is him. Ask me how often I go to church, and I will say, smugly, every week. Ask me where I was...was sick. And so on. Then ask me again how often I go to church, and I'll say, probably with the same ...

TAZEWELL MURDER SUSPECT TESTIFIES PETE CHURCH SAYS HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE...

Roanoke Times & World News;  September 25, 2002 ;     549 words ...Pete Church testified Tuesday in federal court that while he may not...not murder a Tazewell County family more than 13 years ago. Church, whose given name is Walter LeFight Church, could face the death penalty if convicted of the 1989 slayings...

'Church's mission is weakened'

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ...'Church's mission is weakened' By CARDINAL FRANCIS GEORGE Sunday, June...affirm our profound commitment to the mission Christ gave the church and to do so at a time when the church in the United States is in great danger. The church's mission...

Church flexing its legal muscle

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Church flexing its legal muscle Aggressive tactics called necessary...2002 Eighteen months ago, she sued the Roman Catholic Church of Hawaii after a parish sacristan who trained her son as an altar boy pleaded guilty to molesting him. Assuming the church would settle before the case went to trial, the ...

Downtown church that caters to homeless declared a nuisance

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Downtown church that caters to homeless declared a nuisance By TOM KERTSCHER...Milwaukee, the police department has declared a downtown church a public nuisance, which means the church will have to begin paying up to $275 each time police are...

Church Struggles to Forgive Deadly Betrayal by Man it Tried to Help - -...

Yakima Herald-Republic;  August 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ...church LYNNWOOD, Wash. (AP) - Pastor Jim Johnson does not often...the challenges of faith at the Lighthouse Free Methodist church here. Elledge, 58 - scheduled to die early Tuesday by lethal...murder of Eloise Fitzner - has tested the faith of this church almost beyond bearing. "It's something we're trying ...

Church tracing history to 1906 nearing its end

Daily Breeze;  July 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Church tracing history to 1906 nearing its end LAWNDALE: Residents...new elementary school will open there. Outside a Lawndale church, a sign that reads "Beware of God" stands guard among dead...formerly thriving congregation. Yet the First Congregational Church isn't just another aging building abandoned ...

Church services at First Bapti ...

The Washington Post;  July 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Church services at First Baptist Church-Watson are still minutes away and Betty Banks, 77, looks fidgety...the Book of Samuel winds down, Banks heads for the front of the church and picks up a wireless microphone. She asks everyone in the small...

CHURCH'S BUILDING PLANS WORRY NEIGHBORS

Roanoke Times & World News;  January 21, 2004 ;     690 words ...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is...Utah. In Rockbridge County, members of the church, also known as the Mormons, are having...miles. The Lexington ward, part of the church's Buena Vista Stake, wants to tear down...

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France.

Church History;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. By John McManners. 2 vols. The Oxford History of the Christian Church. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. This magisterial, synthetic, and exceptionally readable inquiry into the Christian church and French society during the eighteenth century is at...

A LOWER PROFILE THE LDS CHURCH DOESN'T PLAN TO USE THE SALT LAKE OLYMPICS...

Rocky Mountain News;  February 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints aims...acknowledges Henry B. Eyring, one of the church's Quorum of Twelve Apostles, "if you're...get noticed anyway." And in Utah, the LDS church is a big ballerina. But church officials...