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Man breaks into church, beats up nun
12:16 PM on 03/12/2010
VIDEO - Police are searching for the heinous individual who heartlessly beat a nun at St. Lucy's Church in Newark, N.J. Thursday morning...
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Afro-centric brides on parade
5:16 PM on 02/23/2010
From The Local - Brooklyn, NY - The ceremony started with a bang as the drum processional proceeded down St. James Place, onto Lafayette Avenue and through the doors of the church...
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'Fight Church' embraces in-your-face love of Christ
10:35 AM on 02/18/2010
VIDEO - It's a church where you might want to think twice about turning the other cheek...
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Victims aid police in California church shooting
8:17 AM on 02/16/2010
VIDEO -- Two teenage brothers wounded during a brazen shooting inside a Northern California church were cooperating Monday with police in the search for a hooded gunman and two other suspects...
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Black Pentecostalism's silence complicit in spreading HIV/AIDS
12:40 PM on 02/12/2010
OPINION - My conclusion is that the black church has been complicit in the spreading of HIV/AIDS because of our deafening silence...
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Cite Soleil's best and brightest buried in mission school
8:00 AM on 01/21/2010
VIDEO - Singing once filled the classrooms at this Salesian mission school in Cite Soleil - in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Now, there is only silence...
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For Haitians Sunday mass was about honoring the lost
8:02 AM on 01/18/2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE - This was not just a regular church service. For one thing mass is usually celebrated in the pews, not in the yard...
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Homeless couple ties the knot
8:35 AM on 12/21/2009
VIDEO - The bride and groom don't have a home. Let alone money to pay for a wedding...
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Church expansion brings 'New Hope' in tough economic times
6:00 AM on 11/26/2009
VIDEO - A multi-million dollar building project sounded a lot more practical for New Hope Baptist Church back in April 2007...
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Finding spiritual uplift in an economic downturn
7:00 AM on 11/25/2009
OPINION - A connection with an authentic faith experience can help people survive and even defeat the most difficult circumstances.
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Jackson's former doctor, Conrad Murray makes emotional plea at church
11:00 AM on 11/23/2009
VIDEO - Dr. Conrad Murray, the man at the center of the Michael Jackson death investigation, went home to Houston, Texas to worship with his friends on Sunday.
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Caught on tape: 3 Seattle cops wrestle man at police department
10:18 AM on 11/16/2009
VIDEO- The suspect is seen leaving the evidence room when three officers arrive to put him back under arrest. The video shows the officers punching him and trying to subdue him for two and a half minutes...
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Cleveland memorial service remembers serial killer's victims
5:27 PM on 11/09/2009
VIDEO - At the memorial service the seven known victims were each remembered and face and name. Their deaths mark the birth of a new, promised movement...
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Keep your politicians out of my church
9:00 AM on 10/23/2009
OPINION - It is interesting that so many politicians absent themselves from churches throughout the year and then appear in church a few weeks before an election.
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Women pastors break the stained-glass ceiling
7:34 AM on 10/21/2009
VIDEO - It's a typical Sunday at a church in Harlem, New York. Except with Reverend Kim Anderson at the pulpit...
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Churches could fill the gap in black education
6:00 AM on 10/16/2009
OPINION - Perhaps our churches can take a page out of the churches that used their facilities as schools for freed slaves.
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Leave the government out of religion
6:40 AM on 10/12/2009
OPINION - The first amendment should be the foundation for our growth as a religiously diverse nation. Just as we have been able to overcome much of our racial narrow-mindedness...
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Pastors look for answers in ponzi church scam
6:16 AM on 10/07/2009
VIDEO - An investigation is underway in Michigan where two men are accused of bilking dozens of Michigan churches out of thousands of dollars...
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National Baptist Convention, heavy on preaching but light on issues
8:57 AM on 09/10/2009
OPINION - It is almost unbelievable that a meeting of black people that large could go unnoticed by the general public. Especially a meeting of black church leaders whose members...
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Toddler killed in dispute over washer, dryer and $20
2:35 PM on 09/09/2009
WHEATON, Minn. (AP) - Aundrea Brownlow's father says he's forgiven the man who came into church swinging a baseball bat that killed the 14-month-old girl.
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Obama seeks to reassure seniors on health care
VIDEO - With a fresh sense of urgency, President Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress...
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