Preacher Dies During Sermon About Heaven
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OVIEDO, Fla. - A Presbyterian minister collapsed and died in mid-sentence of a sermon after saying "And when I go to heaven ...," his colleague said Monday.  The Rev.
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The patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of the estimated 300,000 Orthodox Christians in Africa, died Saturday when a helicopter taking him and fellow churchmen
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A 31-year-old Roman Catholic priest who had been questioned by police in two gunshot slayings has killed himself, church officials said Monday.
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Japan's agricultural minister died Monday after reportedly hanging himself just hours before he was to face questioning in parliament in a political scandal, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A Pakistani religious leader, allegedly linked with the al-Qaeda terrorist network, has died here in police custody, local media reported Thursday.
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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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Belgian Cardinal Gustaaf Joos, who derided lesbians and gays as "sexual perverts," died Tuesday, local church officials said. He was 81.
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The Rev. D. James Kennedy, a pioneering Christian broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose fiercely conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the religious right in American politics, died Wednesday. He was 76.
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By Robert D. Davila, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 10--Monsignor Patrick Michael Nolan, who served Northern California Catholics for more than half a century as a parish priest, chaplain, marriage counselor and diocesan official, died Thursday. He was 82.
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Cardinal James Aloysius Hickey, head of the Washington Archdiocese for 20 years, died at a Washington nursing home Sunday, the Washington Post reported.
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, head of the Roman Catholic church in Washington, DC, for 20 years, died on Sunday, the city&#39;s regional church body said.
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The Patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of all Orthodox Christians in Africa, died Saturday when a helicopter taking him and fellow churchmen to a monastic enclave in northern Greece crashed into the sea, government and church officials said.
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John W. Peterson, who authored more than 1,000 gospel hymns in a musical career that began before World War II, has died. He was 84. Peterson died Sept. 20 of cancer at his home in Scottsdale.
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The United Methodist Church defrocked a lesbian minister this week for the first time in 17 years. In a sermon to her congregation, the Rev.
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CHICAGO -- Three children and a teenager were killed in a late-night fire at a pastor's home while the pastor and his wife attended a church service, fire officials said yesterday. The frame house was engulfed in flames and the blaze had jumped to a neighboring house when firefighters arrived Friday night, said Deputy District Fire Chief Patrick Keehoe. An ...
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A man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer who was planning to host his own living wake has died.
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Harrell, Edgar Graham  Of Platteville. Died peacefully at home September 16, 2006 of renal failure. Memorial services will be 4:00PM Saturday, October 21, 2006 at the First Congregational United Church of Christ Platteville. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the E.G.