Gordon B. Hinckley Is Dead at 97; Led Mormon Church in Global Expansion
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Gordon B. Hinckley, the president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led Mormonism through a period of global expansion.
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Mormonism's home is America, but most of its believers don't live here anymore. In the past 13 years the church has flourished as never before around the world, with new temples rising in Africa and South America and new members joining by the tens of thousands.
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Most Rev. James Hickey, former archbishop of Washington who led the Roman Catholic Church in the US capital for two decades, died Sunday.
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Al Shugart, 76, who pioneered the multibillion-dollar computer hard drive industry and was one of the more colorful characters of Silicon Valley, died Dec. 12 at California's Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula of complications from heart surgery he had six weeks earlier.
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The Rev. Frank Wade, a veteran of the brawling theological debates in the Episcopal Church, said the denomination was once filled with people like him: "old white men." It was the church of the establishment, the spiritual home of more U.S. presidents than any other denomination.
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The head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, died of cancer on Monday at the age of 69.
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Tens of thousands of people passed by the coffin of the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City.
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, head of  the Roman Catholic church in Washington, D.C., for 20 years,  died on Sunday, the city's regional church body said. He was  84.
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The Rev. Donald R. Herren, who founded Southern Hills United Methodist Church in Lexington, where he was pastor for 39 years, died Friday night of cancer.
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L. Gordon Cooper was the real deal. He and his six colleagues - known as the Mercury Seven - inaugurated an age and captivated a generation of Americans.
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A retired Mormon educator who wrote a book questioning whether the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints misrepresented his authority as a prophet was suspended from the church Sunday.
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HILDALE, Utah  - From a cell in the Purgatory jail 10 months after his arrest, fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs is still God's voice on Earth to thousands of polygamists in this isolated community.
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The man who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, who briefly became a guru to the Beatles and other pop musicians and who built a multimillion-dollar global business based on teaching people how to pause and close their eyes twice a day, died Feb. 5 at his home in Vlodrop, Netherlands....
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - The trial of the leader of the largest polygamist sect in the United States is forcing people in Utah, where polygamy has a long history, to confront a practice that many would prefer stay hidden.
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WASHINGTON The man who led the Roman Catholic Church in the nation&#39;s capital for 20 years has died. Cardinal James Hickey -- who was ordained a Catholic priest 58 years ago -- died this morning at a nursing home in Washington.
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Rex Humbard, a US televangelist, who enjoyed an audience of millions in his 1970s heyday, dies.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - Attorneys for polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is on trial as an accomplice to rape, said on Friday that "religion was on trial" and the state had overstepped its bounds in bringing the case.