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Churches seek to reclaim the religiously unaffiliated
ST. LOUIS — On a recent Wednesday night, Patrick Foran spent his evening with one of the country’s most prominent humanists, even as churches throughout the area would have rolled out the red carpe...
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Some tornado-damaged Joplin churches to reopen this month
JOPLIN, Mo. — Jim Hemphill remembers the way the First Community Church looked right after the tornado in May 2011. “There was no debris in the building,” he said. “The tornado sucked it all out...
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Native Americans begin celebrating first of their own to be canonized
ROME — The Roman Catholic Church began final preparations Wednesday for what will be a watershed event in the church’s relationship with Native American cultures, the canonization of Kateri Tekakwi...
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Church Calendar
Items for the Church Calendar must be received by email by noon Tuesdays to news@paducahsun.com. Put Church Calendar in the subject line and include the name, address, date and time of event. No ha...
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Associated Press Mother Marianne Cope dedicated her life to caring for exiled leprosy patients on Kalaupapa in Hawaii. Mother Marianne gave her life to caring for Hawaii's leprosy patients, outcasts that others stayed away from at the time out of fear they might contract the disfiguring disease.
2 American women to be elevated to sainthood
HONOLULU — In life, Mother Marianne Cope was known for her strength and kindness, battling bureaucrats in Hawaii as she led a group of fellow Franciscan nuns to care for leprosy patients in the isl...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Diagram showing how a cell salvage machine, an alternative to blood transfusion, works.
Doctors honor religious objections to transfusions
CHICAGO — As a Jehovah’s Witness, Tracy Pickett always has enjoyed knocking on doors and introducing strangers to the tenets of her faith. But by the time she reached her mid-40s, scoliosis made ev...
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Protestants lose majority in US
LOS ANGELES — Protestants, whose ideals of hard work, individualism and democratic governance have fundamentally shaped the national character, no longer make up a majority of Americans for the fir...
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Baptists plan 175th annual convention
LEXINGTON — A ministry with roots deep in the fabric of the commonwealth’s history will mark a milestone Nov. 13 as Kentucky Baptists gather at Immanuel Baptist Church for the 175th annual meeting ...
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Special services Pilgrim Baptist Church annual homecoming Sunday. Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m. with Rev. Alfred Roundtree and congregation of Walton Grove Presbyterian Ch...
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Associated Press Kountze High School cheerleader Brooke Coates paints scripture verses on a car on Sept. 19 in Kountze, Texas. The small Hardin County community is rallying behind the high school's cheerleaders after the squad members were told they could not use scripture verses on their signs at the football games.
Cheerleaders fight to wave Bible-passage banners
HOUSTON — Texas is football country, and in the small town of Kountze, about 85 miles north of Houston, that means many of the roughly 2,000 residents gather at the public high school on Friday nig...
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