Pastor Decried After Child's Arms Severed
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Long before Dena Schlosser took a blade to her baby's arms, her parents had begun to worry. In the years after she moved to Texas with her husband and children, their gentle, dependent daughter had become increasingly isolated. And, according to her stepfather, she was dangerously consumed by a self-described prophet and his church.
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The funeral of a slain evangelical pastor was postponed Saturday after tens of thousands tried to attend, underscoring frustration with crime in a country where rebels who ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide six months ago still patrol some towns.
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An American Christian pastor was  stabbed in the Algerian capital on Wednesday and security  services were investigating whether the attack was linked to  Islamist rebels, security and diplomatic sources said.
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Churchgoers in two communities stunned by the murder of an expectant mother whose baby was cut from her womb grieved for the young woman Sunday and struggled to understand her grisly death.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - A father who allegedly tried to circumcise his 8-year-old son in the bathroom after reading selections from the Bible has been charged with first-degree assault of a child...
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New Hampshire clergy acknowledge a  split within the Anglican church, but stop short of an apology.
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An American Christian pastor was stabbed in the Algerian capital on Wednesday and security services were investigating whether the attack was linked to Islamist rebels, security and diplomatic sources said.
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The Rev. Michael L. Welch was doing what he could to help people recover emotionally after a twister killed 14 people in rural Macon County, Tenn., setting up his church as a family crisis center.
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Murders are not shocking in this city once called the nation's most dangerous. But even this place is shaken by the killing, still unsolved after five months, of a 12-year-old boy whose skull was so badly shattered by bullets that an undertaker used a top hat to hide the damage.
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An infant died Monday after her mother called 911 to report that she had cut off the baby's arms, police said.
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Police have said they are investigating the death of a baby boy who stopped breathing and had a heart attack minutes after being circumcised at a synagogue.
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An Amish man, standing by the bed of his slain granddaughter, told young relatives not to hate the gunman who killed five girls in their classroom, a pastor said on Wednesday. Simple funerals are being planned for the victims, while their families work to forgive the killer, neighbors say.
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City health officials are investigating the death of a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract herpes after a rabbi circumcised them.
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The Rev. Harold Hamon said he was probably addressing Christmas cards when his pregnant neighbor, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, was strangled and the infant ripped from her womb.
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"I am not ashamed of my tears," Pastor Dennis K. Butts Sr. said in opening the funeral for Jessie Davis on Saturday. "Tears are a gift from God. Today is a good day to cry."
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Between the time Roman Catholic Church officials first learned in 1997 of allegations that the Rev. Joseph Byrns had molested two altar boys 30 years ago and finally removed him in June, the cleric allegedly abused another altar boy, law ...
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A Belfast missionary priest seriously injured in a shooting in South Africa says he is recovering well.