Blessed with a nest egg of nearly $1.5 million, a Woodland Hills parish donated almost all of it, leaving just $1,000 in its savings account.
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Pastor Gregory
L. Waybright struggled from the pulpit Sunday to reconcile the laws of God with the laws of man.
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A group of prominent
U.S. evangelical Christians is urging other evangelicals to step back from partisan politics and avoid becoming “useful idiots” for any political party.In an often strongly worded statement released this week, more than 70 pastors, scholars and business leaders said faith and politics have become too closely intertwined and that evangelicals err when they use their religious beliefs for political purposes.About a quarter of
U.S. adults call themselves evangelical Christ
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In an unprecedented gesture, Pope Benedict
XVI met privately Thursday with a small group of men and women who were sexually abused as youths by their clergy, an emotional encounter of prayer and tears.
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In a summons that is prompting both anticipation and unease, Pope Benedict
XVI has asked the presidents of all
U.S. Catholic colleges and universities, along with Catholic school superintendents from across the country, to meet with him this week during his East Coast visit.
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In his first pilgrimage to the United States as pope, Benedict
XVI will minister to a Roman Catholic Church that is both troubled and alive with faith.
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Bishop John-David Schofield’s tone was urgent this month as he
exhorted delegates from his Central California diocese to leave the
Episcopal Church.
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A 44-year-old man and a boy, whose age was not known, were killed
in separate shootings in Compton on Saturday afternoon, Los Angeles
County Sheriff’s Department officials said.
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in a long-awaited message
to the global Anglican Communion he heads, said Friday there was no
consensus among Anglican leaders on whether the Episcopal Church had
met demands that it stop consecrating openly gay bishops and
authorizing same-sex blessings.
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One day after the Diocese of San Joaquin became the first in the
country to break ties with the Episcopal Church, the Rev.
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