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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church shootings got underway Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church. The service marked the one-year anniversary of the shootings that claimed the lives.... |
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The relationship between Hope United Church of Christ and the Islamic Center of Naperville began more than five years ago, when center leaders approached the church about buying land so they could annex it into the city and build a new mosque on 248th Avenue. |
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A special outdoor service to honor veterans and celebrate our nation’s freedom is planned for 10 a.m. on Sunday, June 26, at Jaycee Park in Lonsdale. The public is invited to attend, wear July 4th gear, sing patriotic songs with the band and hear an uplifting message from Pastor Ben Fenderson of Triumphant Life Church. |
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The Centre for Cultural and Religious Rights (CECCUR) has said if nothing urgent is done concerning the hijab crisis in Osun, the state could be enveloped by violence. The group also chastised religious leaders in the state for attempting to breed the seed of discord that could consume the state following religious lines. |
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The Latest on observances for the anniversary of the Charleston, South Carolina church shootings in which nine people were shot and killed during a Bible study (all times local): 10:15 a.m. Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church.... |
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In his keynote address, former Congressman Frank Wolf, now Distinguished Senior Fellow, 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, brought deep personal expertise to this topic, having sponsored many religious freedom bills during his time in Congress, and also having personally traveled to many of the.... |
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One person wrote to me, "You've never experienced the new birth and have nothing in Christ to protect, or you wouldn't think so lightly of Christians who are angered by the foolishness of your accusations...and neither would you be vilifying Christians instead of LGBT beliefs. |
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HARARE — Some political activists held a meeting with Zimbabwe’s central bank governor John Mangudya on Wednesday and Thursday to express their disatisfaction over the bank’s moves to introduce bond notes. The activists, drawn from various organizations including Pastor Evan Mawarire of #ThisFlag.... |
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In a chaotic week dominated by reaction to the mass shooting in Florida, South Carolina’s senators appeared on the Senate floor on Thursday to remind their colleagues of the one-year anniversary of another tragic shooting – this one in their state. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. |
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A Franklinton pastor who testified against former North Shore District Attorney Walter Reed and who pleaded guilty last year to an unrelated federal charge will avoid jail time under a sentence imposed Thursday (June 16) by U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown. |
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As memorials grow larger in Orlando, reality starts to set in that many families will be saying their final goodbyes. A Latino church leading the Hispanic community is openings its doors for the first funeral in their church since the tragic Pulse shooting. |
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Lawrence McKinney speaks at a news conference at the Legislative Plaza Thursday, June 16, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. McKinney, who spent 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, continues to wage a battle with the state of Tennessee to get the compensation he is legally owed. |
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A man who spent 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit is at the center of a battle with the state of Tennessee for compensation that supporters say he is legally owed after being robbed of decades of his life. Lawrence McKinney, who is now 60 and works part time at his church to help.... |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man who spent 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit is at the center of a battle with the state of Tennessee for compensation that supporters say he is legally owed after being robbed of decades of his life. Lawrence McKinney, who is now 60 and works part time at.... |
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Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Charleston church massacre, when nine black parishioners were shot and killed inside the historically black Emanuel AME Church. Dylann Roof is charged with federal hate crimes in the shooting, and prosecutors will seek the death penalty when his trial begins Nov. |
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In a chaotic week dominated by reaction to the mass shooting in Florida, South Carolina’s senators appeared on the Senate floor on Thursday to remind their colleagues of the one-year anniversary of another tragic shooting – this one in their state. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. |
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In a chaotic week dominated by reaction to the mass shooting in Florida, South Carolina’s senators appeared on the Senate floor on Thursday to remind their colleagues of the one-year anniversary of another tragic shooting – this one in their state. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. |
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Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Charleston church massacre, when nine black parishioners were shot and killed inside the historically black Emanuel AME Church. Dylann Roof is charged with federal hate crimes in the shooting, and prosecutors will seek the death penalty when his trial begins Nov. |
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Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Charleston church massacre, when nine black parishioners were shot and killed inside the historically black Emanuel AME Church. Dylann Roof is charged with federal hate crimes in the shooting, and prosecutors will seek the death penalty when his trial begins Nov. |
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Clergy members met at Central Tech to discuss the impending crisis facing the Erie School District. Superintendent Dr. Jay Badams outlined options and what they could mean for the schools and the community if adequate funding is not awarded by the Pennsylvania state budget. |
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As Doug Andreassen, the chairman of US Soccer’s diversity task force, looks across the game he loves, all he can see is a system broken in America. And he wonders why nobody seems to care. He sees well-to-do families spending thousands of dollars a year on soccer clubs that propel their children to.... |
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Malcolm Graham is not ready to forgive the man accused a year ago of murdering his sister. But on the first anniversary of the killings of Cynthia Graham Hurd and eight others during a prayer vigil at historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, the former Charlotte state senator has formed some strong opinions about an appropriate punishment. |
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The grief brought on by the death of 49 victims in Orlando, Florida on Sunday is grueling, and, sadly, Rev. Dr. Betty Deas Clark of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina, is well-acquainted with that anguish. As the new pastor of the historically black church,.... |
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Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Charleston church massacre, when nine black parishioners were shot and killed inside the historically black Emanuel AME Church. Dylann Roof is charged with federal hate crimes in the shooting, and prosecutors will seek the death penalty when his trial begins Nov. |
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Lawrence McKinney, right, listens as Rep. Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, left, speaks at a news conference at the Legislative Plaza Thursday, June 16, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. McKinney, who spent 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, continues to wage a battle with the state of Tennessee to get the compensation he is legally owed. |
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