Megachurch Leader Surrenders
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The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch turned himself over to authorities Tuesday night to face a charge that he lied under oath about his sexual affairs
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ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Feb. 18 -- The Anglicans' spiritual leader, faced with a deepening rift over homosexuality and scripture in the worldwide Anglican Communion, called Sunday for humility among bishops as the conflict threatened to fracture the church.
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DUBLIN - The Rev. Ian Paisley said yesterday that he is stepping down as leader of the hard-line Protestant church he founded 56 years ago, a decision his opponents say was inevitable after he angered many by cooperating with Sinn Fein to form a Northern Ireland government.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. marines and a radical Iraqi  cleric were locked in a tense standoff on Thursday after the  firebrand leader refused to leave a holy shrine in Najaf  despite earlier agreeing to disarm his militia and withdraw.
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Tyco's former tax chief surrendered to   U.S. authorities on Monday on charges he falsified the   manufacturing conglomerate's 1999 tax return to evade more than   $50 million in taxes, federal investigators said.
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The resignation of the pastor, the Rev. Paul Barnes, came after the pastor was confronted by another minister in his church, The Denver Post reported.
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An evangelical church in Tysons Corner, Va., is growing beyond its 13,000 worshippers and $93 million campus, following the trend of modern megachurches.
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CINCINNATI - The walls of a church fell about 90 minutes after the last of Sunday's worshippers left, causing the roof to drop onto the pews and pulpit, officials said.  Pastor Carl McMullen and his family were the last to leave the Zion Hill Baptist Church at 1:40 p.m.
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The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a native of Birmingham, says he is resigning from his position as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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The Anglicans' spiritual leader, faced with a deepening rift over homosexuality and scripture in the worldwide Anglican Communion, called Sunday for humility among bishops as the conflict threatens to fracture the church.
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A Zimbabwean archbishop who was an outspoken critic of President Robert Mugabe before becoming embroiled in a sex scandal resigned on Tuesday, but vowed to continue championing his countrymen facing political and economic crises.
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By Marco Aquino and Jude Webber LIMA, Peru  - The leader of an armed group whichtook over a police station in a southern Peruvian town threedays ago and demanded the president's resignation made a freshpromise on Monday to surrender.
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By Mark Agee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 6--Agape Christian Fellowship's board has fired the church's founder and pastor, Terry Hornbuckle, because of his sexual assault convictions, according to a statement released Tuesday.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has held last-ditch talks to end the gay clergy row threatening the worldwide Anglican church.
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LOS ANGELES - The founder of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network has sought repeatedly to prevent a former male employee from going public with allegations of a sexual encounter between them eight years ago, a newspaper reported Sunday.    Paul Crouch, 70, president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, reached a $425,000 settlement in 1998 with the former worker who threatened to sue over claims he had been unjustly fired from the network, the Los Angeles Times said...
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Tyco's former tax chief surrendered to  U.S. authorities on Monday on charges he falsified the  manufacturing conglomerate's 1999 tax return to evade more than  $50 million in taxes, federal investigators said.
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Militant fathersâ rights protester Jonathan Stanesby described today how he managed to handcuff himself to Childrenâs Minister Margaret Hodge for 40 minutes at a conference.