Religious Land Use Trial Begins
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By Josh Richman  SAN FRANCISCO -- A long legal battle over a proposed Christian school near Castro Valley finally went to trial Monday, with a 10- person jury ready to decide whether the situation is a civil-rights violation or sound suburban planning.
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The U.S. Supreme Court debated on Wednesday whether taxpayers can contest the use of government funds for church-related activities, with examples about presidential travel to address religious groups and bagels served at prayer breakfasts.
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A Catholic priest accused of participating in Rwanda's genocide goes on trial at the UN war crimes court.
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By David Yonke, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 16--LAKESIDE, Ohio -- When the Rev. Adam Hamilton decided to preach a series of sermons on world religions, the first thing he did was his homework.
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Advocates of same-sex marriage began a crucial legal test Wednesday in a San Francisco courtroom packed with supporters, arguing for marital equality and invoking California judges&#39; trailblazing role in overturning a ban on interracial marriage 56 years
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By JAMES MINTON  ST. FRANCISVILLE - The owners of four tracts for a proposed large- scale development near Lake Rosemound joined Thursday in a lawsuit attacking the project.  A hearing is scheduled Jan. 3 in the lawsuit that adjoining landowners James D. and Laurel B.
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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.
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An Indonesian Muslim cleric goes on trial on Thursday charged with leading a militant network seen as the regional arm of al Qaeda in a case that will test the new president's pledge to fight terrorism.
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A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in the case of an atheist who wants to prevent a Christian minister from reciting a prayer at President Bush's inauguration.
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The landmark trial of a Rwandan Roman Catholic priest accused of supervising the massacre of 2,000 of his Tutsi parishioners during the central African country's 1994 genocide opens at a UN court in Tanzania.
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The alleged spiritual leader of Southeast Asia&#39;s most dangerous terrorist group is due to go on trial in Indonesia Thursday. Militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir is accused of involvement in at least two attacks on western targets.
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The jury in the Suffolk murder trial are to visit some of the areas connected with the case.
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Trial set to begin of polygamist sect leader on charges that he coerced a 14-year-old girl into marriage.
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A federal trial began today in Atlanta over evolution disclaimers in Cobb County schools. A group of parents backed by the ACLU argue that the disclaimers in science biology textbooks are a government endorsement of religion.
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Â·  Church landlords accused of speculative frenzy Â·  Conduct 'not in line' with papal stance on housing
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A decade after allegedly bulldozing his church to crush parishioners cowering inside, a Rwandan priest went on trial for genocide yesterday at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania.
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By Julia Oliver, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 18--Wesley Chapel has filed a complaint against Union County and asked that a judge resolve a dispute over the village's zoning power.