Mormon church appoints new leader
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - Thomas Monson, a longtime senior leader of the Mormon church, was officially named its 16th president on Monday at the age of 80, assuming the reins of one of the world's fastest growing and most affluent religions.
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The men&#39;s national football (soccer) team in Argentina has a new coach. The South American nation&#39;s football association announced Thursday that Jose Pekerman will lead the team.
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Kalkot Mataskelekele becomes the new leader of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - The head of the Mormon church, Gordon B. Hinckley, died on Sunday at the age of 97, church officials said.
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By Sheena McFarland, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 14--LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the new site of LDS  Business College on Wednesday afternoon before a crowd of more than 1,000  people.
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America&#39;s Roman Catholic bishops chose a new president Monday who has released the names of priests accused of molesting children and reached out to victims but who also plans
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China's state-controlled Catholic Church installed a cleric well-regarded by the Vatican as bishop of Beijing on Friday in a move that officials say should help ease their tense relations.
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Thomas S. Monson, a longtime Mormon leader who has served in the top echelon of the church for more than 40 years, will head the 13 million-member faith, Mormon church officials announced today.
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  A judge is poised to sign a plan that will overhaul the Fundamentalist LDS Church's United Effort Plan Trust, which controls nearly everything in the polygamous border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.
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A BYU legal counsel is among 20 names that will be renominated by President Bush for judicial seats. Thomas Griffith was turned away in the president&#39;s first term because of a lapsed license.
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WASHINGTON, DC - In an apparent affirmation of church tradition, Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane yesterday was elected president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops at its annual fall meeting.
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The bishop of Spokane, Wash., was elected president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops yesterday, despite his intent to declare his diocese bankrupt in the next few weeks.
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The Free Presbyterian Church is to elect a successor to Ian Paisley, its moderator for almost 57 years.
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Bishop John C. Wester lays his hands upon the Rev. Jose Gregorio Rausseo Gomez while the Rev. Manuel de Jesus Ceron-Valdez waits his turn during their ordination to be priests at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City.  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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WASHINGTON, DC, NOV. 15, 2004 .- The nation&#39;s Catholic bishops elected Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane to a three-year term as president of the US episcopal conference.
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If leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hold with tradition, the next president of the church will be a soft-spoken World War II veteran with a love for telling stories.
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Senior clergy of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church are gathering in Athens to elect the new leader following the death last month of Archbishop Christodoulos.