British vicar bars Father Christmas from carol service
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A British vicar banned a man dressed as Father Christmas from a carol service at his church, he said.
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A Roman Catholic diocese has asked priests to refrain from using the communion chalice and parishioners to avoid shaking hands until the end of the flu season.
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A Roman Catholic priest on Saturday led one of the first cheerful Christmas Day celebrations in Bethlehem in years, after fighting, military curfews and a general glum had kept most visitors away since the late 1990s.
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Bookmakers have slashed the odds on the possibility of a White Christmas for several parts of the UK.
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An ailing Pope John Paul II is to miss Ash Wednesday services for the first time in his 26 years as pontiff.
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Compensation is awarded to a gay man whose appointment as a youth worker was blocked by the Church of England.
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'You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy f-----' The BBC has censored The Pogues' xmas classic Fairytale of New York lest the lyrics offend homosexuals, the Telegraph reports.â¦
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Pastor Patrick Wooden is encouraging Christians to only patronize stores that acknowledge the Christmas holiday. . RALEIGH, NC, Dec. 24, 2004 - At shopping malls and department stores across
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Firms and local authorities which &quot;ban&quot; Christmas, fearing that celebrations or references could offend other faiths, risk triggering an anti-Muslim backlash, religious leaders have warned.
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The Anglican Church in Uganda is to stay away from the Lambeth Conference, a meeting of the world's Anglican bishops.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka&#39;s Buddhist clergy yesterday called off a protest against a Bollywood concert being staged on the first anniversary of the death of a popular monk, but their followers later clashed with police, officials and witness said.
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A judge Wednesday refused to save a Roman Catholic church where parishioners have staged a sit-in for the past two weeks to protest its closing by the archdiocese.
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Senior bishop who claimed parts of Britain are no-go areas for non-Muslims criticised
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A vigil at a Natick church has ended this afternoon after police told parishioners to leave the church where two people were arrested after refusing to leave the church Christmas Eve.
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Iraqi Christians won't be celebrating  Christmas this year. Midnight mass, the centerpiece of  Christmas festivities in Iraq, has been canceled because of  night-time curfews.
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By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania  Seven conservative Anglican leaders refused Friday to take Holy Communion with the head of the U.S.
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MSPs vote to ban large stores from opening on Christmas Day but they reject a ban for New Year's Day.