Church Says Girl's Communion Not Valid
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An 8-year-old girl who suffers from a rare digestive disorder and cannot eat wheat has had her first Holy Communion declared invalid because the wafer contained no wheat, violating Roman Catholic doctrine.
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An Anglican Communion report released yesterday urged those involved in last year&#39;s consecration of an openly gay Episcopal Church bishop in New Hampshire to apologize
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By Frank E. Lockwood, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 16--When it severed ties with its denomination, Church of the Apostles forfeited more than its "Episcopal" label. It also gave up its buildings, its bank accounts, its furniture, even its name tags.
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Conservatives and liberals locked horns  over homosexuality at a Church of England synod on Wednesday as  the worldwide Anglican communion faced the grim prospect of  schism.
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In a Feb. 15 story about the Anglican conference, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said a parallel church within the United States was contrary to Episcopal teachings.
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LOUISVILLE, Colo. - Somebody handed a group of Girl Scouts a bogus $50 bill and left with three boxes of their famous cookies and $40.25 in change, police said Wednesday.
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By Stephanie Koons, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun. 16--Does spending only $25 on a full load of groceries sound too good to be true? A local church will soon make that idea a reality for community members.
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Roman Catholic bishops in England and  Wales rejected as "false and entirely misleading" a BBC  documentary about what it said was a cover-up of child sexual  abuse under a system enforced by Pope Benedict XVI in his  previous job.
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Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales rejected as "false and entirely misleading" a BBC documentary about what it said was a cover-up of child sexual abuse under a system enforced by Pope Benedict XVI in his previous job.
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CANADA Same-sex union blessings rejected WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada narrowly overruled clergy and laypeople yesterday to defeat a proposal to give churches the option of blessing same-sex unions. The issue has threatened to split both the Canadian church and the 77-million member worldwide Anglican Communion, a loose federation of national churches around the world ...
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A Presbyterian minister has been charged with breaking church law for performing a marriage between two women.
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Some clergy have criticized what they regarded as the churchâs leftward drift, including the consecration of an openly gay bishop.
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The Catholic Church accuses the BBC of a prejudiced attack on the Pope over claims of a cover-up of child sex abuse.
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PUGHTOWN, Pa.  - A Methodist minister was tried by  an ecclesiastical court on Wednesday for being a practicing  homosexual and said she believes God created her as a lesbian  but she does not expect to keep her job.
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ARSAW, Poland, NOV. 11, 2004 .- A representative of the Catholic Church in Poland reported the undue interference of U.N. organizations trying to impose the liberalization of abortion in his country.
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The presiding judge in the church trial of a Methodist minister who declared she is a lesbian in a committed relationship ruled Wednesday that the cleric&#39;s defense could not call witnesses who would challenge the denomination&#39;s ban on sexually active gay
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A teenage girl has lost her high court challenge over a ban preventing her from wearing a Christian 'purity ring'.