Cities 'shun church at Christmas'
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Church attendance rockets in rural parishes over Christmas but rises only a "meagre" amount in the cities, according to a study.
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A judge Wednesday refused to save a Roman Catholic church where parishioners have staged a sit-in for the past two weeks to protest its closing by the archdiocese.
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When a church group put a nativity scene on public property, officials warned it might open the door to other religious &#151; and not-so-religious &#151; displays. They were right.
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Iraqi Christians won't be celebrating  Christmas this year. Midnight mass, the centerpiece of  Christmas festivities in Iraq, has been canceled because of  night-time curfews.
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Three out of four British businesses have banned Christmas decorations from the workplace out of fear for offending people of other faiths, according to a report.
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A vigil at a Natick church has ended this afternoon after police told parishioners to leave the church where two people were arrested after refusing to leave the church Christmas Eve.
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The Archbishop of Wales uses his Christmas message to warn of dangers posed by "atheistic fundamentalism".
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For a growing number of churches, the boundary between sacred space and marketplace is coming down.
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Carol services banned, religious references carefully excised from cards: to read the press this year, you could be forgiven for thinking the politically correct brigade are set on taking the Christian out of Christmas.
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The pastor at Anchorage First Free Methodist Church was mystified. Why was the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals chastising him? No animals are harmed in the church's holiday nativity display. In fact, animals aren't used at all.
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Security concerns kept many Iraqi Christians away from church Christmas Day, while U.S. troops in Baghdad celebrated the holiday as traditionally as possible &#151; feasting on turkey and then relaxing at the pool table or computer screen.
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Church leaders condemned on Wednesday a  Christmas nativity tableau depicting English soccer star David  Beckham as Joseph and his pop singer wife Victoria as the  Virgin Mary.
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Colin Riley has gone obediently to Mass since boyhood, but he was mumbling apologies for raw words the other day to a statue of Jesus in the quiet sanctuary of St. Albert the Great. He was seething over efforts to close his church and others around Boston.
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Queen Elizabeth has called for tolerance between different cultural and religious groups in her Christmas address to the nation. &quot;Religion and culture are much in the news these days, usually
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Islamic extremism has made some UK places  into no-go areas for non-Muslims, says the bishop of Rochester.
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BARTOW, Fla. - When a church group put a nativity scene on public property, officials warned it might open the door to other religious - and not-so-religious - displays. They were right.
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A Christmas grotto which has replaced Santa with a man with horns angers church leaders in York.