2,500 people accept Christ during first night of crusade
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PASADENA, Calif. (BP)--Nearly 55 years to the day after ending a Los Angeles crusade that launched evangelist Billy Graham onto the national scene, he was back in Hollywood preaching the same timeless Gospel of grace and redemption Nov. 18.
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The celebration of an important Mexican holiday drew about 250 people to Assumption Catholic Church Sunday for the festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is the spiritual leader of the world's more than 250 million Orthodox Christians and is often called the "first among equals" of the Orthodox religious leaders.
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Pope John Paul II led prayers for peace and a more tranquil future, pilgrims flocked to Bethlehem and Iraqis stayed away from church for fear of bomb attacks as Christians around the world celebrated Christmas over the weekend.
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By Lisa Crutchfield, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 23--U2's "Gloria" poured from the speakers. The pews were packed.   And the newly consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia was pumped.
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Encouraged by renewed peace talks, Christian pilgrims on Monday converged on this city, to celebrate Christmas â a palpable contrast to the sparse crowds of recent years.
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Hundreds of pilgrims and a new Palestinian leadership came to Bethlehem for Christmas as the town of Jesus's birth celebrated the festival with new hopes for peace following Yasser Arafat's death.
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Most of the world&#39;s 1.2 billion Muslims began Ramadan on Thursday, a holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, festivities -- and abstinence.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Thousands of pilgrims and  a new Palestinian leadership celebrated Christmas in the town  of Jesus's birth Saturday with prayers for peace after the  death of Yasser Arafat.
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An emerging thaw in Israeli-Palestinian relations helped draw several thousand pilgrims to the traditional birthplace of Jesus on Christmas Eve, but crowds were far smaller than during the mid-1990s.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Hundreds of pilgrims and a  new Palestinian leadership celebrated Christmas in the town of  Jesus's birth on Saturday with new hopes for peace following  Yasser Arafat's death.
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COPENHAGEN -- The "Amens!" flew like popcorn in hot oil as 120 Christian worshipers clapped and danced and praised Jesus as if He'd just walked into the room. In a country where about 2 percent of the population attend  church regularly and many churches draw barely enough worshipers to fill a si...
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Crowds have begun converging in central Istanbul for a demonstration called by a small Islamist party against the visit to Turkey by Pope Benedict XVI, which starts on Tuesday.
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Worshippers brought hopes for greater peace in the coming year as they flocked to Manger Square in Bethlehem and to St. Peter&#39;s in the Vatican to hear Christmas messages urging an end to violence, particularly in the Middle East.
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Pope John Paul has said Mass for several hundred thousand people and put two Italians and a Spaniard who lived in the 20th century on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
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More than two million Muslims stand on Mount Arafat for the high point of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
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Christians around the world celebrated Christmas Saturday with Pope John Paul II leading prayers for peace and a more tranquil future, as pilgrims flocked to Bethlehem, and Iraqis stayed away from church amid fears of bomb attacks.