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Associated Press The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro stands in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Opponents of the mosque got the government decision that approved the construction overturned June 1, but they lost their bid to stop construction immediately.
Murfreesboro mosque foes seek to stop construction
MURFREESBORO, Tenn.  — Opponents of a mosque in Rutherford County filed Wednesday for an injunction seeking to stop construction. According to The Daily News Journal, plaintiffs filed the reques...
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Church calendar
Special services Freemont Baptist Church, 8425 Old Mayfield Road, Amazing Wonders Vacation Bible School, Sunday through June 8, 6-8:30 p.m. each day. Calvary Baptist Church, 270 Clements St...
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Governor favors prayer in schools
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — First-term Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant told a group of teenagers that he believes it should be possible for public schools to have some sort of nondenominational prayer to ope...
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Associated Press Shalendrick Tribble, 19, holds an early photo of her son, Malick, who is now almost 2, on May 2. Tribble has stayed in school despite the challenges of having a child at a young age. She hopes to be a cosmetologist one day.
Mississippi attacks high pregnancy rate
MARKS, Miss. — With her hair in a ponytail and her smile quick and wide, it’s hard to tell that high school junior Donyell Hollins has been pulling all-nighters for most of the semester to take car...
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Associated Press Pastor Mack Wolford, a devotee of the Pentecostal "Signs Following" tradition, handles a rattlesnake during a service at the Church of the Lord Jesus in Jolo, W.Va. Rooted in Appalachian folk practices and the King James Bible's Book of Mark, the "Signs Following" tradition encourages believers to handle deadly snakes, drink poison and speak in tongues as a testament to their faith. Wolford died Sunday after being bitten on the thigh by a timber rattler during an outdoor service. He was 44.
Snake-handling Pentecostal preacher dies from bite
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.  — A West Virginia preacher who followed his father into the rare practice of handling snakes to prove faith in God died after being bitten during an outdoor service involving the...
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1st edition Mormon book stolen from Mesa
MESA, Ariz. — A first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon that draws hundreds of missionaries to a Mesa bookstore is missing. Mesa police said Wednesday they are investigating the theft, which ha...
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Baby boomers’ lives begin to intersect with losses
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Rachael Mahoney is in the midst of a decade of loss. In the last few years, her father and her sister, her only sibling, died. Her marriage ended in divorce. And now her elderl...
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Bishop pushes to reopen some Ohio churches
CLEVELAND — The Roman Catholic bishop in Cleveland says some of the dozen northeast Ohio churches that were closed but later spared by the Vatican might begin reopening in mid-June. Bishop Richa...
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Missouri prayer issue makes August ballot
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A proposed amendment to Missouri’s Constitution asserting the right to pray in public will go before voters in August. The measure guarantees the right to pray in public pl...
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Associated Press Rachel Ascione stands next to a tribute to her stepbrother, U.S. Marine Cpl. Ronald R. Payne Jr., on the rear window of her car Tuesday in Springfield, N.J. Payne died May 8, 2004, when his unit came under fire from rocket-propelled grenades while searching for a Taliban official outside Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
Memorial Day: Remembering the fallen of decade at war
Most people run marathons to challenge themselves. Maj. George Kraehe runs them to challenge others. As a member of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors’ “run & remember team,” the New M...
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