Death Penalty Tests a Church as It Mourns
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A Connecticut congregation debates capital punishment after the brutal murders of three of its members.
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Roman Catholic organisations and the Vatican have reacted with outrage to the news that a hospital in the Netherlands has been carrying out &quot;mercy killings&quot; on newborn babies.
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The parishioners at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Bothell got a shock this weekend: Instead of delivering a typical sermon, the Rev.
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New plays by Michael Murphy and John Patrick Shanley explore the reaction of church members to suspected sex abuse by priests.
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The Supreme Court said on Friday it  would decide whether the death penalty can be imposed for the  crime of raping a child, expanding its review of how capital  punishment is carried out in the United States.
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Church congregations in north-east India are preparing to hold special services after blasts and gun attacks killed at least 56 people on Saturday.
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It's not official, but a "creeping  moratorium" on the death penalty in the United States is taking  hold as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge to the  method of lethal injection.
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After the Supreme Court granted two stays of execution and refused to vacate a third, some say that a de facto moratorium on the death penalty is in place.
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As Christianity begins to reshape the nation, TIME learns new details about a crackdown on one church
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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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The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether a jury that sentenced a convicted killer to death had properly taken into account his religious conversion, which a prosecutor incorrectly contended was irrelevant.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. 11 -- After killing two young people at a missionary training center in a Denver suburb on Saturday night, but before taking the lives of two more at a megachurch on the outskirts of Colorado Springs the following afternoon, Matthew Murray posted a screed on an Internet forum.
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Bishop Antonio Montes Moreira compares abortion to the hanging of Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile, parish priest Tarsicio Alves warns worshippers they'll be automatically excommunicated if they vote "yes" in a referendum Sunday.
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KIAMBAA, Kenya  - Even as Kenya Red Cross staff cleared the last of the bodies from the church's smoldering remains, traces of the massacre still haunted it.
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As the community struggled to comprehend the killerÂs actions, families prepared for funerals.
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PALU, Indonesia  - The execution of three   Christians in Indonesia on Friday brought thousands of   protesters to the streets in the hometown of one of the dead,   where they freed prisoners and burned an official's house, a   witness said.
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A murder inquiry is launched into the "violent" death of a Polish student whose body was found inside a church.