From prison to pulpit
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On Evansville Courier & Press: Lifestyle
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TOKYO - First he struggled through 40 years of life in North Korea as a deserter. Then he spent a month in an American military prison for abandoning his US Army post for the isolated communist state.
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How the Illinois senator came to embrace religion in his life.
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He was born into the glare of televangelist parents Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Then the "Praise the Lord" empire collapsed in scandal. His father went to jail for fraud.
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A growing religious movement sees potential to shift a blue state's hue.
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RICHMOND, Texas - A minister convicted of biting a police officer during a traffic stop avoided two years in prison after a judge gave him 10 years of probation and ordered him to enroll in an anger management program.    After a Fort Bend County jury found the Rev...
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The federal Bureau of Prisons has decided to return religious materials that had been purged from prison chapel libraries.
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By Jay Tokasz  The Rev. Charles E. Blake, presiding bishop of Church of God in Christ, the largest  African-American Pentecostal denomination in the world, has spent 38 years  building his congregation into a societal force, as well as a spiritual one.
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Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British national who was released from a Pakistani jail after spending 18 years on death row, has spoken of how he turned to Islam for solace as his situation worsened in prison.
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A record 7 million people &#151; or one in every 32 American adults &#151; were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2,193,798 were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year.
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Mary Kay LeTourneau -- a former Washington state teacher -- is reportedly moving forward with the relationship that landed her behind bars.
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By Karen Owen, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Jun. 24--Local churches are being recruited by a faith-based program to befriend ex-convicts and help them stay out of jail or prison.   Fresh Start for Life Inc.
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By Reading Eagle, Pa.  Feb. 3--As the Reading Berks Conference of Churches observes its 60th anniversary this year, the organization's executive director, the Rev. Calvin Kurtz, has a vision in which those who benefit from the organization's ministries minister to others in turn.
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The town where Jesus was born is being turned into a &quot;big prison&quot; by the separation fence, the heads of churches in the Holy Land said in a pre-Christmas message yesterday.
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit....
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Business & money: Former Telegraph owner says his faith is providing comfort - although he seems to acknowledge he may be destined for prison.
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A leader of China's underground Protestant church has been released from prison after serving a three-year sentence for distributing Bibles and other religious literature without a business license, an overseas monitoring group said Sunday.