Defrocked Minister Files Appeal With Methodist Church&#39;s Court
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A Methodist minister who was defrocked for declaring that she is a lesbian living with her partner is taking her case to a church appeals court.
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A former US Marine jailed for the murder of a police officer in Leeds is to appeal against his 'whole life' sentence.
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They are challenging a 2000 federal law that gave houses of worship more room to grow.
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A very divided jury of United Methodist church clergy has voted to defrock an open lesbian minister whom they&#39;d earlier convicted of violating church law.
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LOS ANGELES An attorney for Michael Jackson is seeking to appeal a retired judge&#39;s ruling in a &quot;family law matter&quot; between the pop singer and his ex-wife Deborah Rowe.
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CALGARY (CP) - A Calgary man suing the Jehovah&#39;s Witnesses, claiming they contributed to his daughter&#39;s death by encouraging her to avoid life-saving blood transfusions, said Friday his lawsuit is for her and for his family.
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By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun  May 26--Local United Methodist clergy are asking for a judicial opinion from the denomination's highest legal authority on Bishop John R. Schol's decision to reappoint a transgender pastor to a Charles Village congregation.
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A liberal church that has been threatened with the loss of its tax-exempt status over an anti-war sermon delivered just days before the 2004 presidential election said Thursday it will fight an IRS order to turn over documents on the matter.
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By Howard Yune, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep.
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By becoming only the third diocese nationally to seek shelter in bankruptcy court, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane is hoping the court will help provide a clearer picture of its financial liability in mounting sex-abuse lawsuits and goad its
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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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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  While Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is remaining silent on a personal-injury lawsuit filed against him, lawyers for the polygamist church's financial arm are registering their objections.
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A lesbian Methodist minister was defrocked on Thursday after being found guilty by an ecclesiastical court of violating a church law that bars its clergy from being practicing homosexuals.
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The latest clash in the struggle among mainline Protestant denominations over gay clergy hits a critical point Wednesday with the church trial of a United Methodist Church minister who declared in a sermon last year that she is a lesbian living with her partner.
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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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WILLMAR, Minn. - After its last pastor allegedly bilked them out of $10,000, leaders of Rejoice Ministries church thought they were being extra careful when they hired James Poole.
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A lesbian minister in the United Methodist Church who lives with her partner was found guilty Thursday of violating a church ban on actively gay clergy and defrocked.