Historic Church Vandalized
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By Deidre Williams, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Dec. 9--Thieves broke through a basement window of a landmark church on the East Side this week, ransacking the building and leaving behind a big mess.
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An influx of immigrants and refugees to Clarkston, Ga., sparked a battle within one church that led it to change not just its name but its mission.
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All across central Florida, people have gathered at battered churches to ask themselves whether nature's swirling wrath had also unsettled their faith.
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A new church building in Houston has become the focal point of what some architects are calling a revival of traditional religious architecture in the United States.
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Gospel singing and shouts of "Hallelujah!" competed with the sounds of hammers, chain saws and dump trucks Sunday as parishioners of a church obliterated by a tornado gathered around the rubble to remember the dead and pray for the strength to rebuild.
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Â· Minister turns to sporting youth to pack pews  Â· Plywood ramp replaces pulpit as focal point
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By Sam Hodges, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 16--The dedication of a gleaming new church building is no big deal in suburban Dallas. Downtown, though, it's almost as rare as real wine in a Baptist communion.
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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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Many houses of worship are under threat, crumbling from years of neglect, or becoming targets for acquisition by developers in neighborhoods where choice real estate is scarce.
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Christian symbols are being denigrated over Christmas says a leader of the Catholic Church of England and Wales.
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A monument to Soviet soldiers has been vandalised in Estonia. Unknown malefactors smeared with paint a memorial in Rakvere, a town 100 kilometres east of the capital Tallinn.
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By Steve Lyttle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 17--Firefighters battled a blaze Sunday morning at a Catholic church in southwest Charlotte. No injuries have been reported.   The fire was reported shortly after 9 a.m. at St.
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By TOM KERTSCHER  Work is continuing on the Mequon Nature Preserve. Workers renovating the former Spirit Life Church on the property began removing the roof this month from the church building, which is being transformed into the PieperPower Education Center.
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A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the use of churches as polling places.  Jerry Rabinowitz, a Delray Beach photographer, says a church strewn with religious messages was an unconstitutional site in which to vote.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - When scuffling sisters brought their family squabble into the Assemblies of Jesus Church, the preacher says the devil came, too. The Rev. Clarence June Love was just about to begin his Sunday service to a congregation of less than a dozen on Jan.
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The acrid scent of explosives and fire hovered inside the gutted church as Iraqi Christians baptized Savio Mar Georgis. By Muhannad Fala&#39;ah, Getty Images.
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THE GAZETTE. The Episcopal Church was scolded but not punished in a document released Monday by the churchâs parent organization.