Parishioners with a mental illness or their family members may feel more comfortable asking for assistance from other parishioners, be it emotional or physical support.
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In Washington, D.C., a church rector who gave communion and shook hands with parishioners at Christ Church Georgetown was identified as a patient, prompting officials to urge hundreds of parishioners to self-quarantine.
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He made his money through the support of his parishioners.
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And who is more devoted than a group of parishioners?
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It's hard to not be charmed by these unorthodox parishioners.
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Plata's parishioners mourned their passing Thursday night at the church.
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"Find your polling place and get there," he tells parishioners.
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He's well practiced in his pastoral craft of comforting parishioners.
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Many parishioners were on vacation; so was the parish priest.
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In a reprieve for dozing parishioners everywhere, Paul resurrects him.
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None of its parishioners live in the neighborhood, he added.
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Ms. Dussourd was shunned by many of her fellow parishioners.
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Parishioners lost the safety of their place of worship that day.
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It is a fear shared by many of her fellow parishioners.
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Parishioners fanned themselves to stay cool in the packed, stuffy room.
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He tells his parishioners, after this storm, the calm will come.
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He met with fellow travelers in the clergy and among parishioners.
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The couple met as parishioners at Harvest City Church in 2011.
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He has a little flock of parishioners and feels the responsibility.
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For some churches, the immigrants at risk are their own parishioners.
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The parishioners do not appear to be hit against their will.
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Willow Creek, however, remains particularly successful, boasting about 26,000 parishioners per week.
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Within minutes, parishioners and tourists emptied the cathedral, leaving just staff behind.
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Or the one who murdered nine black parishioners in Charleston in 2015.
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Tom, bit by the horde of turned parishioners, is not going gently.
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A white supremacist murdered nine black parishioners at the church in June.
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This has created divisions between neighbors, friends, co-workers and fellow parishioners.
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Parishioners said the church building had not been updated in a while.
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Parishioners found themselves frustrated by unanswered questions that challenged their strongest beliefs.
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Some parishioners complained of a lack of transparency on the diocese's part.
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An assistant pastor made almost 50 calls to counsel and comfort parishioners.
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The result has been a breach of trust among many of the 25 million parishioners of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, the archdiocese has itself acknowledged, as wealthy donors and humble parishioners alike wonder whether their donations were used appropriately.
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It feeds the hatred of parishioners, which spreads to people outside the Church.
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"The parishioners could not have seen the hatred in his heart," Williams said.
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St. Louis Park parishioners said they don't know why Prince died so suddenly.
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The gruesome assassination of Hamel was carried out as parishioners watched in horror.
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On Sunday morning, St. John the Evangelist parishioners held Mass outside the church.
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The blaze broke out just hours after its Serbian orthodox parishioners celebrated Easter.
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He checked the churches on Alabama, and the parishioners turned up their noses.
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A card, likely from the early 1950s, urging parishioners to come to church.
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At recent church services, we found mixed feelings about Mr. Moore among parishioners.
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Local papers covered shouting matches when Bishop Wuerl came to meet angry parishioners.
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By 17, he was the pianist at a church with thousands of parishioners.
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Parishioners liked his work so much they hired him to build an addition.
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A video of the incident shows other parishioners reaching for firearms, as well.
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Parishioners named the second year's trio Elizabeth, Mott and Mulberry, after nearby streets.
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Some former parishioners of the shuttered churches, like John Ahearn, have moved on.
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Then, with the parishioners' eyes clenched for a benediction, Mr. Roof brandished the .
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And the mood among parishioners is different than when Archbishop Myers took over.
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I am fascinated with the depth and sincerity of parishioners, the immense generosity.
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But in a letter last month to parishioners, administrators and parents, the Rev.
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Parishioners of doctrines that promote slavery, prison industrialism, and other exploitative capitalist interests.
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One day, she built a website to update parishioners on the goings-on of the parish, which featured contact information about the parish's members and informed parishioners that the priest's availability would be limited as he had injured his foot.
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First Baptist Church parishioners now consider this structure as a memorial for the victims.
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More parishioners are willing to challenge their church, which failed them for so long.
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To their parishioners and to the families that are the members of the church.
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The Church of England decided to give parishioners the choice of making contactless payments.
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The total number of white parishioners at the church has declined over the years.
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Many parishioners think the administrators who covered it up deserve to be punished too.
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Last month, parishioners were inside when a man approached, apparently intent on doing harm.
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The Catholic Church views Chiapas as a battleground against Protestant denominations converting Catholic parishioners.
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"I tell my parishioners that it's not opportune to do so," said the Rev.
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The settlement will be covered by insurance, donations from parishioners and diocese property sales.
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Deya, however, has been charging his customer/parishioners upwards of £5 ($7.17) per bottle.
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Afterward, as Father Kingsley greeted exiting parishioners, he was met with hugs and praise.
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Parishioners and community members also donated another $1,000 toward the gun buyback, Creehan said.
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Avery Johnson, led the integration of their churches, despite the opposition of some parishioners.
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Across most of the country, parishioners oppose the idea of churches directly endorsing candidates.
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"The citizens who were inside that church undoubtedly saved 242 other parishioners," Williams said.
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Grace Road Church's 400 parishioners are employees of the Grace Road Group, Kim said.
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Imagine a powerful ruler demanding that a priest divulge what parishioners said during confession.
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During the war, priests and Catholic parishioners alike were slaughtered, while anticlerical laws were enacted.
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Among the parishioners in Rouen was a nun who was taken hostage at Hamel's church.
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Most parishioners felt poor and powerless, so they wanted to live vicariously through their pastor.
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Dong and his parishioners are among millions of illegal Christians worshiping in officially atheist China.
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Pieroni expressed his fear that the tweet would result in the loss of gay parishioners.
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The crowdsourced database aims to rate American churches based on their support of LGBTQ parishioners.
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According to parishioners, the government put pressure on the most active members of the congregation.
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The photos showed priests and well-dressed parishioners smiling over baskets of colorfully dyed eggs.
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At lunchtime, he often brought communion to housebound parishioners he explained in a telephone interview.
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He is attempting to live by the advice he typically gives to parishioners in mourning.
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For one child, the price is $5,095 a year for parishioners, and $5,455 for nonparishioners.
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Ivan Strmecki was struggling to decide what to tell parishioners at their Ash Wednesday Mass.
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He emerged leading the parishioners and carrying the chalice, his suit jacket covered in soot.
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They have also taken a priest and his parishioners hostage and set fire to buildings.
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Smaller stained-glass panels throughout were made in memory of parishioners, with their names inscribed.
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As other parishioners began to arrive, a priest bumped into Bryant on his way out.
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Once the shooter is subdued, several other parishioners are seen approaching with their weapons drawn.
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As young Angela watched, many of her father's parishioners wept openly in church that morning.
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"Wonder how many parishioners take birth control or eat meat on Fridays," wrote one person.
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"Words do matter," Reverend Eric Manning told more than 100 parishioners attending the Sunday service.
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Remarried parishioners should be able to feel part of the church community, the pontiff said.
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Two other parishioners were injured while allegedly pulling Moreno off of the pastor, according to KZRV10.
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Parishioners worshiped on the ground floor of a modest four-story building at 155 Cedar Street.
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Many of Plata's 30 or so parishioners mourned the women's passing Thursday night at the church.
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The Rev Stone said her main concern after transitioning was what to wear to meet parishioners.
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The concerns, voiced by a variety of sources including parents and parishioners, date back to 2008.
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To gather the raw data, GoodLands partnered with parishioners, academic institutions, NGOs and other social services.
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In the months since Gutierrez was freed, two more of the church's parishioners have been detained.
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As The Sun reports, many parishioners have been tweeting about wtinessing fidget spinner-themed church sermons.
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Future generations of would-be parishioners may not look so kindly on the bargain he's made.
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Last year, they handed out ornaments discouraging parishioners from buying toys of violence for their children.
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Mr. Roof killed the parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015.
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The White House said Trump wanted parishioners to pray for victims of a recent mass shooting.
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Some pastors tell parishioners that the gamblers helping to save the town are committing a sin.
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When Bishop Jenik answered, Mr. Garcia held the phone so parishioners could see him over FaceTime.
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There, in that world of parishioners crying holy, the small community lives surrounded by other sounds.
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The pastor added, as an example, that Mentawai parishioners should cross themselves before consulting their ancestors.
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Opponents say they harbor criminals at the expense of citizen parishioners who could use their aid.
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He urged city officials to install better lighting for parishioners coming and going after work hours.
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Those acts of heroism, however well-intended, did not prevent the senseless deaths of those parishioners.
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The parishioners said they planned to continue to pray their nightly rosary outside of the church.
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Parishioners at Christmas Eve Mass shared sorrow about the fire, but also a feeling of solidarity.
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"I was being expressive!" he recalls, adding that other parishioners expressed themselves by speaking in tongues.
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Upon his arrival, a group of African American parishioners invited him to join their Bible study.
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One of the armed parishioners who took down the gunman that opened fire One of the armed parishioners who took down the gunman that opened fire On Sunday, a gunman shot and killed two On Sunday, a gunman shot and killed two America is changing fast!
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He spent much of his free time making hospital visits to parishioners who contracted black lung disease.
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He hoped to show parishioners he believed he was "a pastor after God's own heart," he said.
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Father Roberto Mena, parish priest of St Michael's Church in nearby Forest, says his parishioners are frightened.
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The church is thousands of years old, and operates as such; LGBTQ parishioners are proposing radical change.
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Congregations are hemorrhaging parishioners and confidence in the church is falling in the U.S. at unprecedented rates.
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Republican hypocrisy on sex tends to involve self-professed Christians being caught fooling around with the parishioners.
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"In the past, 50% of our budget was obtained from the help of poor parishioners," said Marquez.
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His mother had raised him in a church where parishioners learned that gay people went to hell.
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The dead parishioners from First Baptist Church ranged in age from 17 months to 77 years old.
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The newest pastor plans to take a busload of parishioners out to see Newell perform on Broadway.
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But the couple continued to recruit students from area churches, telling parishioners that teaching was their calling.
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Teresito Suganob, who was abducted by gunmen last week with some parishioners, appealing for the group's safety.
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Even with his church's history, he has a message for ordinary parishioners who bring guns to church.
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For all his good works, parishioners say Father Sandoval's know-it-all, paternalistic attitude can be grating.
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While its parishioners pray, the sanctuary is bolted shut and a police officer is now stationed outside.
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A drive-in church in Florida where parishioners can attend services from the comfort of their cars.
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Michael Meyers, the pastor of St. James Catholic Church, said in a letter to parishioners last month.
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"Anybody in the neighborhood can go," he said, explaining that there are about a dozen regular parishioners.
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It fires gay workers, vilifies gay priests and alienates parishioners who can't make any sense of this.
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"Hundreds of victims, thousands of parishioners and many members of the community are awaiting the report," Shapiro wrote.
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Here, the avatars of parishioners—sleek chiseled robots and blocky cartoon humans—came and went throughout the service.
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Parishioners said he was attracted to the three Virgin Mary statues in the north transept of the church.
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Hundreds of Catholic parishioners wear birdlike costumes and parade down the streets to honor the 16th-century saint.
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But the Church of England has one slightly unconventional vice it wants its parishioners to give up: plastics.
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And no matter what Jesus commands, the parishioners admit, finding unity won't be easy and can't be easy.
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If Wells' followers are dedicated, they're also literalists when it comes to his teachings, more apostles than parishioners.
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Besides, if parishioners find spiritual peace, does it matter if the minister is a robot or a human?
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Since she left, she's been an outspoken critic of Scientology, claiming its practices are abusive towards its parishioners.
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From the moment he walks through the door, parishioners forget the dreary weather as electricity fills the room.
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It emerged on Twitter as a response to the killing of nine parishioners in Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.
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To this day, all the cooks, including Kovalenko, are volunteers, and the majority of the patrons are parishioners.
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Hundreds of parishioners encircled the church to protect the cross, facing off against hundreds of riot police officers.
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The 26-year-old was sweeping outside the VP Racing gas station when the gunman began slaughtering parishioners.
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At one point, he even offered to share the tenets of his own faith with Howard's fellow parishioners.
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What kind of faith community denies a sacrament to parishioners who don't happen to have been born heterosexual?
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Parishioners at St. Joseph's said in December that Father Timone divides his time between New York and California.
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Given the church's heavy Hispanic demographic, immigration policy in general looms large for the church and its parishioners.
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It was over in 85033 seconds thanks to the brave parishioners who acted to protect 242 fellow worshippers.
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But we know nothing about the at least six other parishioners who also appeared to draw their handguns.
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Dozens of parishioners surrounded the couple, who bowed their heads, their faces stoic, and swayed to background music.
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"The threat is stopped based on the heroic actions of the two parishioners in the church," Bevering said.
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Rosary beads handmade by parishioners of the Church of Annunciation have become newest sensation in the Lone Star State.
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St Peter's itself was set up by 30 HTB parishioners in 2009 and now boasts a flock of 1,000.
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Over the years, parishioners at St. Paul's have debated everything from the Vietnam War to the ordination of women.
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They took hostage the 85-year-old priest celebrating mass and the tiny congregation, two nuns and two parishioners.
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Mr. Rogers can't see his parishioners, but he knows that they're out there, and he waits for their response.
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And she was responsible for putting them there because she'd fed a bunch of church parishioners poison communion wafers.
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Jean Baya, a plumber who knew Father Hamel well, was one of many parishioners who recalled the priest's dedication.
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It was a Sunday, and the soldiers blocked parishioners from leaving the church, then set the building on fire.
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There, parishioners began collecting donations — mainly food, hygienic supplies, and clothing — to distribute to families affected by the arrests.
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"Sexual abuse is not something most parishioners thought they'd have to think about in this campaign," said the Rev.
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The members of the evangelical panel answer to their parishioners, white evangelical Christians who are intensely loyal to Trump.
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The family shared Craddock's diagnosis with their church, and fellow parishioners at Grace Episcopal Church in Medford embraced them.
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John Cornyn, a United States senator from Texas, spoke at the service and later praised parishioners for their resilience.
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Father Sanchez, known to his parishioners as Father Zeke, helped a flight attendant escort people off the burning jetliner.
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The chanting faded, transitioning to sounds of a Saturday morning church service, where black parishioners were preparing to demonstrate.
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There are people collecting garbage, building things, reporting, checking on livestock, on parishioners, harvesting oysters, delivering food, operating trains.
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The 2015 murders of nine black parishioners by a young white supremacist laid bare the work left to do.
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Karla, Lou, Richard and Therese will not be joining other parishioners to tuck into plates of turkey and pie.
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The rebels went on a rampage, burning several buildings and taking hostage a Roman Catholic priest and several parishioners.
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" Nearly half of these religiously observant parishioners, Burch wrote, "91,373 mass-attending Catholics — are not even registered to vote!
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In the letter to parishioners, Dolan also explained that the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program, or IRCP, is investigating.
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Parishioners had hitched boats to their pickups, then driven to Texas to deliver food and clothing to flood victims.
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As gunfire ensues, some parishioners are seen taking cover under their pews while others rush out of the sanctuary.
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"A happy and blessed Christmas to everyone from St. Anne Church and parishioners!" the diocese said in the statement.
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But Kim is vigorously fighting that narrative, denying allegations that the church treats its parishioners like modern-day slaves.
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Ms. Reuter said some of her parishioners were preoccupied with fears that more refugees would be sent to Buch.
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Journalists and security officers almost outnumbered the 100 parishioners and priests attending Mass on Wednesday in the monastery chapel.
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The apparent decision to stop borrowing money for rent perplexes both the parishioners and a former pastor, the Rev.
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He is also working with the state's Council of Churches to hold sessions with parishioners to hear their concerns.
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"It&aposs too easy to just conduct business as usual as a group of predominantly white, privileged parishioners," Goldsmith said.
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After a white supremacist fatally shot nine black parishioners in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in July 211, Sen.
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In 2016 a study of five HTB churches in London found that 38% of parishioners had transferred from another church.
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That was, of course, the shooting of nine parishioners at a historically black church in Charleston, in Haley's home state.
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The removal of the monuments was prompted by the 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church.
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He arrived six months ago and says he has focused only on tending to the spiritual needs of his parishioners.
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The number reportedly spiked following the 2015 white supremacist shooting in Charleston, S.C., that left nine African-American parishioners dead.
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Andrew Stehlik, the church pastor, in response to his parishioners, many of whom he said were phoning him in tears.
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In churches, offerings had plummeted because parishioners used the little cash they could withdraw for food and other basic necessities.
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There were two: one for regular parishioners, most of whom were black, and the other largely for white European tourists.
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With large gatherings banned, ministers will preach messages of calm and compassion on Sunday as parishioners watch on live stream.
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Another victim was a lifelong friend of one of my parishioners; they graduated from La Vernia High 38 years ago.
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He then went into a historic church in Charleston, S.C., and fatally shot nine African-American parishioners in June 2015.
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In one case a member of the clergy told parishioners that anyone who voted "Yes" could leave the church immediately.
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In January of 2017, Charleston shooter Dylann Roof was sentenced to death for gunning down nine parishioners in a church.
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Don Giuseppe Corbari celebrates Mass in front of portraits and selfies sent by parishioners in Robbiano, Italy, on March 231.
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Don Giuseppe Corbari celebrates Mass in front of portraits and selfies sent by parishioners in Robbiano, Italy, on March 231.
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The married couple was among the 26 parishioners, including children, who were killed by a gunman at First Baptist Church.
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But some parishioners, including Mr. Merriweather, held their own service on Malcolm X Boulevard, on the sidewalk outside St. Martin's.
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Some of his young parishioners became "guerrilleros," and the island became a central military training ground for the Sandinista movement.
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She wanted them to hear the worried voices of undocumented parishioners who'd just filed in for their weekly English lesson.
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One after another, at least half a dozen other parishioners drew their own weapons and began moving up the aisles.
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He taught parishioners to read and write, helped them farm, and founded a hospital, a school and a radio station.
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The parishioner who shot the gunman trained worshippers on a shooting range; it was not the assailant who trained parishioners.
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Parishioners held Sunday Mass outside the church the next morning and worshippers "gave thanks that the people inside survived," Low said.
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At each church, he learned the names of his parishioners so he could address them personally when he prayed for them.
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Adam Satchell (D) said he found out his name was on the letter from friends who are parishioners at the church.
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Churches have a lot of choices when it comes to charity, but medical debt and affordability issues often resonate with parishioners.
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Millions remain loyal to the pope and worship in secret, underground churches, whose priests and parishioners are frequently detained and harassed.
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He urged his parishioners to reach out to those of different faiths and ethnicities and to conduct random acts of kindness.
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Osorno parishioners said on Wednesday that specific measures, including the resignation of Barros, were needed to restore confidence in the Church.
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In May 2015, a State Superior Court justice ruled against the parishioners, who later appealed to the United States Supreme Court.
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Lawmakers voted to take down the flag last summer following a mass shooting of parishioners at a black church in Charleston.
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The dead parishioners from the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs ranged in age from 17 months to 77 years old.
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Parishioners in a group called Iowa Welcomes Immigrant Neighbors raised $80,000 to help detainees' families pay rent, utilities and legal fees.
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Priests in the underground on the mainland tell me that they are discouraging parishioners from coming to Mass to avoid arrest.
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Still, many churches have canceled the use of the common cup at communion, eliminating the distribution of wine to parishioners altogether.
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About seven miles away at Our Lady of Victory Church in Brooklyn, parishioners listened to a sharper rebuke from the Rev.
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For some parishioners, the grand jury report need not be mentioned: For them, the Catholic Church was being unfairly singled out.
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Like many dioceses, the Brooklyn diocese has confronted waves of parish mergers and closures as the number of parishioners has shrunk.
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After realizing it had gone missing, parishioners gathered on Sunday at his namesake basilica to pray for Bosco's brain to return.
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Around the country, Roman Catholic bishops have been issuing reminders to parishioners that the holy obligations of Ash Wednesday still apply.
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Several parishioners known to be opposed to the L.G.B.T. ministry and to Mr. Bianco did not respond to requests for interviews.
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They had come to Baltimore wanting to prove that they had heard their parishioners' cries of despair and calls for change.
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But it takes communion at Fellini's church rather than Francis's — a surreal congregation whose parishioners express their devotion through enchanted excess.
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Jurors unanimously condemned to death the white supremacist for killing nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
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Still, Trump's presence at the 7,000-seat church could prove unsettling for the ministry's immigrant parishioners, particularly those who are undocumented.
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Head Pastor Guillermo Maldonado told congregants Sunday that undocumented parishioners would be welcome at Trump's rally, according to the Miami Herald.
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Parishioners are asked to tithe ten per cent of their income, but, given their income level, that is a mighty ask.
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Federal prosecutors successfully brought hate crime charges against Dylann Roof for murdering nine black parishioners at a Charleston church in 2015.
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While most of Mr. Wang's parishioners, including his wife, Jiang Rong, were eventually released, Mr. Wang never re-emerged from detention.
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One of his parishioners, then a vulnerable 18-year-old looking for guidance, was given alcohol by a then-church deacon.
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He said that recognition of Father Rother as a martyr reflected the priest's enormous courage and commitment to serving his parishioners.
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Tell us in the comments, then read the related article to find out how Catholic parishioners reacted to the pope's announcement.
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Many of the people here, she said, were Guatemalans, and about 200 of the 1,000 parishioners in the church were Hispanic.
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Many of the people here, she said, were Guatemalans, and about 200 of the 1,000 parishioners in the church were Hispanic.
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Oleksandr estimates between 40-70 percent of Moscow Patriarchate churches will join the new church, though his parishioners have mixed views.
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"We believe the victims of sexual abuse have been marginalized (by the Church)," said Juan Carlos Claret, a spokesman for Osorno parishioners.
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The most important agents, however, are all of us -- as citizens or parishioners, members of charities or country clubs, teachers or shareholders.
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Hundreds of parishioners, overwhelmingly Nigerian, many in African ceremonial clothes, swayed to gospel songs made faster and funkier by Nigerian highlife beats.
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Roof, who is unrepentant, has since been sentenced to death and many of Collier's fellow parishioners are still trying to forgive him.
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In 43, two months after receiving his doctorate, he carefully wrote a sermon on "Worship" intended to impress his well-educated parishioners.
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The Catholic Church's all-male leadership is mired in a growing, global scandal that includes mass abuse of kids, nuns and parishioners.
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South Carolina was also the site of a deadly mass shooting that killed nine parishioners at a historic black church in June.
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It's yet another reason why I feel that queer parishioners like myself need to continue fighting back against the institution we love.
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"The pulpit isn't simply to discuss chapter and verse but to address issues that plague our parishioners when Monday morning rolls around."
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The parishioners smile and laugh as they hold the doll-like figures, sometimes taking a picture of them before passing them on.
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Mass on Monday morning, about 100 parishioners sat in long wooden pews in the cathedral, rebuilt not far from its original site.
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About 6,000 parishioners live in areas designated as mandatory evacuation zones, mostly where there are no levees to hold back flood waters.
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The Christian identity and sense of fellowship it provides its largely young, smartphone-savvy parishioners is designed to transcend Sunday morning services.
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That ban ended in July 2015 when the state took down the flag after nine parishioners were killed at a Charleston church.
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Gambrell's office has been key in helping individual Presbyterian churches decide how to proceed with services in ways that keep parishioners safe.
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Coffins bearing deceased parishioners no longer leave one at a time in a shiny hearse after a funeral every week or so.
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She was among several parishioners I found on a Facebook page for the church; I'd left a message for her hours earlier.
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For its priests, this now means daily Masses in English, Spanish and Chinese, catering to the needs of its parishioners, many undocumented.
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The small church on Fourth Street remained closed on Sunday morning, so parishioners and hundreds of guests gathered under a white tent.
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A fire in 1939 left the building badly damaged, but as Father Johnson's parishioners made plans to rebuild, they commissioned the carillon.
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Karen is indefatigable and largehearted, a caretaker who cooks for family, seminarians, parishioners and workers alike, and frets over their collective health.
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Letter sent to parishioners Dolan sent a letter to Our Lady of Refuge Parish on October 29 explaining the situation regarding Jenik.
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He's secretly put out by the parishioners who believe that the serpent has been unloosed on Essex as punishment for their sins.
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One of the parishioners killed was a security guard responding to the shooter, church elder Mike Tinius told The New York Times.
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Back then, the parishioners were much more influential than they are now, and they probably wouldn't have let him off the hook.
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"The citizens who were inside that church undoubtedly saved 242 other parishioners," said Jeoff Williams, from the state's department of public safety.
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Many of her elderly parishioners, she said, had told her that they couldn't believe what young people today had to contend with.
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John Barbella, the pastor, said that a statement about the arrest and indictment would be read to parishioners at Masses this weekend.
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The bus was filled with high school students and parishioners returning from the Steubenville Catholic Youth Conference in Denver, the station reported Monday.
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By focusing on the shared call to care for what they see as God's creation, the church isn't just asking parishioners to recycle.
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Parishioners overpowered the 17-year-old when he assaulted the priest with a knife on Sunday, and he is now in police custody.
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In Lagos, the large Deeper Life Bible Church has constructed traffic lights and a bridge, and has turned some parishioners into traffic wardens.
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They know the Sunday service was filled with tearful prayers and that the parishioners, just like their mother, told them not to worry.
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Black churches are losing clout with their base for their steadfast support of politicians whose values are often at odds with their parishioners.
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Oh, come all Ye faithful to St. Andrews Church in Hornchurch, London — a cool church that's drawing parishioners in with Kanye West lyrics.
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Father Joe obediently rescinded the declaration of sanctuary, but he kept talking about immigrant rights, despite pushback from some of his white parishioners.
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There's Laurie who manages the pizza shop, Sandrine who defends her country, Jane who cares for her parishioners, Kip who keeps the peace.
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"Trump" is then seen pulling out a gun and shooting parishioners, including those representing Politico, Black Lives Matter, Slate, HuffPost, and Vice News.
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On this particular Sunday, a party at the Lot Radio the night before had kept some parishioners home from services, Mr. Spano said.
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I looked around at my fellow parishioners – these innocent people, young and old, choir and clergy – and shuddered to think about losing them.
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Black pastors would be more effective if they lived among their parishioners and expanded their churches' outreach to young males on the streets.
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And three years ago, a confessed white supremacist went on a shooting spree inside the city's Emanuel AME Church, killing nine black parishioners.
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The nuns were active in the church's Bible study, Father Plata said, and were deeply connected to the congregation of about 30 parishioners.
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A group of politicians in Chicago were so moved by parishioners' reaction to the murders that they decided to file for the nomination.
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The South Carolina church where a white supremacist murdered nine black parishioners in June was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize on Monday.
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Thus, when a white man spews racist hate speech and kills nine parishioners in a Black church, he is not considered a terrorist.
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Often, LGBTQ members are welcomed as parishioners, but, according to ex-members, those in same-sex relationships are discouraged from seeking leadership positions.
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But if you hit them in the pocketbook, where they get most of their money from their parishioners ... that's about the only way.
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There were calls by Texas Republicans to have more parishioners arm themselves at churches on Sundays, and responses by Democrats denouncing such moves.
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The church has no pews—pine needles from the mountain forests form a carpet for kneeling parishioners—and no priest commanding the service.
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Then, we found the Church of Perpetual Life, a transhumanist temple in Hollywood, Florida, where parishioners believe they won't ever have to die.
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Footage from a security video shows the shooter, seated in a pew, suddenly stand up and take aim at parishioners right behind him.
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Ms. Durham filled the church with fresh-cut greenery, pine cones and red roses for Christmas; a tree had been decorated by parishioners.
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Survivors, parishioners and the public want to see proof that every diocese has taken sweeping, decisive and impactful action to make children safer.
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Two months later, the avowed white supremacist used that gun to kill nine black parishioners who'd gathered for Bible study at Mother Emanuel.
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The Roman Catholic priest at the local church declared that parishioners no longer have to kneel for prayer when the tides are high.
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The diocese, which includes 1.6 million parishioners, is asking anyone who may have been abused by someone on the list to come forward.
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As news of the resignation began to leak earlier this week, some parishioners called their priests to see if it could be true.
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The report notes that Wuerl had previously written to the Vatican that parishioners had a right to know if their priests were pedophiles.
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He once helped run a parish in South London, visiting sick and elderly parishioners, playing the church organ and running the youth club.
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The former parishioners speaking out allege collusion between the church and the Fijian government for them to be able to thrive in Fiji.
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" Tami Ellen McLaughlin, 51, who led eight other parishioners in the 30-minute rosary on the sidewalk on Friday, said: "Why the rush?
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The plaques honoring Lee and Washington, who were former parishioners, were displayed on either side of the altar at Christ Church in Alexandria.
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The gunman reportedly pulled out a shotgun and fired at parishioners before being shot and killed by members of the church's security team.
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As new cases are unearthed, Catholic parishioners are focusing their anger and anguish on the bishops — even more than on the perpetrator priests.
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At a recent morning Mass at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Sydney's eastern suburbs, there were just a dozen parishioners, mostly older women.
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Feit told investigators at the time of the crime that he had counseled Garza that evening, but then went to hear other parishioners' confessions.
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The model, worked — setting the standard for megachurches across the globe, many of which used the approach to vastly increase their number of parishioners.
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I recall watching one pastor smile and hug his parishioners -- and then later tell me they got on his nerves and had bad breath.
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The items were brought in by parishioners after the priests encouraged their followers to empty their houses of evil objects, according to the AP .
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After the Gemstones deliver a maudlin report from China to their thousands of parishioners, the rock music begins, and the offering plates are passed.
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It has survived heartbreak and scandal: A few years ago, businessmen came to the church and bilked numerous parishioners in a mortgage-fraud scheme.
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Roof allegedly sat alongside his victims for about one hour inside the Emanuel AME Church before opening fire on the parishioners, according to authorities.
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" Hillary Clinton also weighed in on Trump's Khan comments on Sunday in remarks to parishioners at the Imani Temple Ministries in Cleveland, Ohio. "Mr.
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He allegedly sat alongside his victims for about one hour inside the Emanuel AME Church before opening fire on the parishioners, according to authorities.
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A seemingly harmless discount to parishioners who wanted a good meal after church backfired on a Ohio restaurant after a secular organization cried foul.
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The parishioners contended that since their donations had paid for the church to be built, they were entitled to a say in its closing.
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Feit, who was a visiting priest at the church, told police he'd counseled Garza that night but then went to visit with other parishioners.
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Shrinking congregations and growing repair bills are typically the fatal combination: about a quarter of Sunday services are attended by fewer than 22007 parishioners.
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Last week Alicia witnessed Chris holding back from helping Madison while the group fought its way out of the horde of infected church parishioners.
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And in Charleston, South Carolina, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church reopened just days after nine parishioners were killed in a racially motivated attack.
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Shortly after the festival ended last year, on June 17, a gunman killed nine parishioners of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, including its pastor.
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Mike Coffman is sitting in a church communicating with a group of Spanish-speaking parishioners in their native tongue with a heavy American accent.
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The Church's image among people under 30 has never been worse, meaning the next generation of priests — and parishioners — simply may not be there.
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So while Jackson believes his parishioners are open to hearing from Trump, he's not entirely sure what kind of reception he's going to get.
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And in that crypt — a cavernous space with dark corners, vaulted ceilings and the ashes of past parishioners — you may listen to classical music.
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The historic Episcopal church canceled Sunday services — the first cancellation since a fire in the 19th century — and has been calling and emailing parishioners.
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Since 2010, six churches, including one near Atlanta and another in Chicago, have adopted Mr. Carter's pathway to marriage program for their own parishioners.
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The gunman who shot two parishioners at the West Freeway Church of Christ had come earlier looking for food and money, church leaders said.
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He said nothing for nearly 274 minutes, hanging his head and waiting for the 183 parishioners to stand and close their eyes in benediction.
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Parishioners had gathered for Mass, to be followed by a pilgrimage, in support of mothers in Masaya's cathedral who are on a hunger strike.
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In White Settlement, Texas, on Sunday, a man entered a church and fatally shot two people before being shot and killed by armed parishioners.
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A forensic pathologist, Dr. S. Erin Presnell, described the findings of autopsies that showed the nine parishioners had been struck at least 60 times.
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"In every case that I know of they have been greeted with overwhelming support by parishioners," he said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
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The Bishop of Parramatta, Vincent Long Van Nguyen, however, told his parishioners in a pastoral letter that the vote was a matter of individual conscience.
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Parishioners in Osorno, a small city 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of the Chilean capital, say Vatican representatives denied their requests to meet with Francis.
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The cathedral's exterior is adorned with sculptures illustrating biblical stories, known as the "poor people's book," as, historically, the majority of parishioners could not read.
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The Rev Simon Lockett, whose parish will host the first pod, admits that some of his parishioners are going along with the scheme only reluctantly.
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Although not completely eliminating sexual abuses, it would significantly reduce them and save parishioners from the harm such assaults do to them and their families.
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Father Teresito "Chito" Soganub, the vicar general of Marawi City, had been taken hostage by Islamist militants along with about a dozen of his parishioners.
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Parishioners from Scalise's home church in the Bayou State "turned out in large numbers," for a Sunday blood drive, according to local affiliate WVUE-TV.
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Ever since a white nationalist killed nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, in 19973, momentum to remove Confederate symbols has grown throughout the South.
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The patch of asphalt, on the southwest corner of the complex at Barrow and Greenwich Streets, was used by staff and parishioners, said the Rev.
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The inquiry, described as an "apostolic visitation," involved three trips to Buffalo over seven days and interviews with 80 people, including clergy members and parishioners.
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A group of angry Catholic parishioners are preparing to storm their walls when members of the congregation begin bleeding from their eyes and then dying.
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On Sunday, having exhausted their options in Vatican and American courts, the parishioners held their last service, but not without a final act of defiance.
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At Mr. Brown's Third Baptist Church, attendance has been steadily declining; on a recent Sunday, around 150 parishioners worshiped in a sanctuary that seats 1,100.
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The men at the gym, the parishioners at my church, the salespeople at the department stores, even the guards at the White House were there.
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Mr. McLellan spent about two months staying in the homes of parishioners of his church in Fort Montgomery and of its former pastor, the Rev.
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" Hodges, in his book "The Game of Baseball," recalled the story of a Brooklyn priest who told his parishioners: "It's too hot for a sermon.
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The issue became especially prominent after the 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, South Carolina, church by a self-described white supremacist.
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He had no trouble recruiting parishioners to return with him to the Case Farms plant in Morganton, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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In her Bible-study group, she'd referred to Satan as Old Onions so much that some of her fellow-parishioners had started doing the same.
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Dylann Roof, the young white man who murdered nine black parishioners in a Charleston church in 2015, left a racist manifesto online before the shooting.
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Several said that if church leaders had trusted in the unshakable faith of the parishioners, they would not have engaged in such extraordinary cover-ups.
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Some Catholic priests offered fiery homilies, telling parishioners their anger at the sex abuse detailed in last week's grand jury report was justified, even necessary.
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Forever Young explores the transhumanist and spiritual beliefs of some of the church parishioners, including businessman Bill Faloon, who co-founded the church in 2.
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Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the year in which nine black parishioners were killed by a white supremacist.
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Videos posted online show lyrics to the hymns appearing on television screens with parishioners playing electric guitars and a sign language interpreter translating the songs.
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" Then the pastor, Frank Pomeroy, told his parishioners — 20 to 30 were visible in the video — to walk around the room and "shake somebody's hand.
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In many versions of Protestantism, parishioners are urged to reject merely human authority in any form and go directly to the pure word of God.
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Parishioners have appealed the deconsecration of at least two churches: St. Elizabeth of Hungary on the Upper East Side and All Saints Church in Harlem.
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An article in a Minnesota newspaper reported over the weekend that a church asked older parishioners to leave in an effort to attract younger families.
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A jury will begin deciding next month whether the white supremacist who fatally shot nine black parishioners in Charleston, S.C., last year should be executed.
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READ: What we know about the shooting at Pearl Harbor Authorities said there were 240 parishioners in the church at the time of the shooting.
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When the shooter opened fire, killing two parishioners in the West Freeway Church of Christ sanctuary, Wilson ended the incident as quickly as it began.
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Rival claims to lead some Chinese dioceses and the absence of bishops in others have left many priests and parishioners isolated or feuding, they said.
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In their memory, parishioners of St. Joseph Church and School have been placing flowers at the base of a bell tower, CNN affiliate KRCR reported.
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The first: On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and during a prayer service killed nine African American parishioners.
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Add the invite-only celebrity parishioners like Katy Perry and Courtney Love, and it all feels more like a performance-based cult than a church.
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One of the armed parishioners who took down the gunman that opened fire One of the armed parishioners who took down the gunman that opened fire Two teenagers in Wyoming were disciplined after walking through their school doors Wednesday morning in KKK outfits Two teenagers in Wyoming were disciplined after walking through their school doors Wednesday morning in KKK outfits America is changing fast!
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With almost 40,000 parishioners, the C.C.C. is the sort of megachurch that is more common in Atlanta or Houston or some other wealthy black urban center.
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Weeks before, white supremacist Dylann Roof gunned down nine parishioners and injured three more during Bible study at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The trial got under way of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist accused of killing nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
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They will scarcely have been reassured when Francis last month encouraged a gathering of priests to show understanding for parishioners who were living together before marriage.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told Fox News that churches should consider whether they wanted parishioners to be armed as a way of preventing another tragedy.
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Parishioners present at the First Baptist Church's Sunday service — when the shooter attacked — were likely all members of Sutherland Spring's small community of around 700 people.
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This had led me to the only church with parishioners under 50 in my rural South Australian town, which just happened to be a Pentecostal Church.
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And let us correct those congregants, parishioners, elected officials and opinion makers who deny, against all evidence, that racism remains a powerful force in American life.
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Upon arriving, his father passed away and Kasuga felt pressurized by his temple's parishioners to take up his position of 17th head monk of Shoganji temple.
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The "sacred" arena of the football stadium, and the "sacred" flag, have, perhaps to Morris and his parishioners, been profaned by Kaepernick and his fellow protestors.
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At 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, nearly 200 still grieving parishioners mounted the steps to Calvary Episcopal Church on Park Avenue South and East 21st Street.
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The Dansalan College, a Protestant institution, and the Catholic Cathedral of Maria Auxiliadora, were both razed, and a priest and about a dozen other parishioners captured.
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Volunteer security guards patrol the Buffalo, New York church, and on Sunday, parishioners are due to learn "run, hide and fight back" techniques from local police.
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Below, parishioners prayed during Mass at Sacred Heart Church on Hawaii's Big Island as fissures sprayed lava on the Puna subdivisions throughout most of the day.
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He died at the hands of two knife-wielding men who stabbed and slashed at clergy members and parishioners and took hostages before being fatally shot.
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"Governments should, in general, keep out of the friendship business and out of the bedroom," Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher told parishioners at St Mary's Cathedral.
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Enraged white South Carolinians hung three-dozen parishioners and burned the building to the ground in 1822 following a thwarted slave revolt planned at the church.
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Anna Blaedel, and they decided to launch Enfleshed earlier this month, a non-profit organization that helps faith leaders and parishioners make their practice queer-friendly.
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Among them is Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners when he opened fire on a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
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This year parishioners at this church in Dedham, a suburb of Boston, decided to blend the annual crèche with the ongoing national conversation about gun violence.
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Dusk settled over a clapboard Pentecostal church, where parishioners speak in tongues, and past a red-and-blue circus tent promising alcohol and a strip tease.
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Faloon and the parishioners—nearly all who doubt the existence of an afterlife—are people bent on using the latest anti-aging science to live indefinitely.
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Although the Catholic church teaches that same-sex relationships are sinful, growing pockets of the church have accepted openly gay parishioners, staff members and even priests.
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A video of the church killing reportedly shows Mr. Kelley working his way methodically through the aisles, shooting some parishioners, even children, at point-blank range.
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"At least arming some of the parishioners or the congregation so that they can respond, if something, when something, like this happens again," Mr. Paxton said.
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Dr. Betty Deas Clark preach, but over a half dozen parishioners told CNN that Buttigieg's sexuality was not a factor when considering supporting his 2020 campaign.
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Parishioners, other churches in the Episcopal diocese and civic organizations raised $5,100 for the gun buyback program on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the church said.
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We were like the parishioners who Jonathan Edwards warned were suspended over Hell by "a slender thread," which an angry God might sever at any minute.
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Then Francis stood firmly by Bishop Barros when priests and parishioners disrupted his installation ceremony and wrote letters pleading with the pope to rescind the appointment.
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But his sartorial style sent a message to his parishioners -- don't take a backseat to anyone -- and he backed it up with his civil rights activism.
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The couple met in November 2013 in New York as parishioners at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, where the groom was a tenor in the choir.
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The indictment on multiple occasions cites the trial of the shooter in the 2015 racially driven slayings of black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina, church.
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Seventy-two pictures lined the entrance of the pilgrimage church and greeted parishioners attending traditional Christmas Mass, a nine-day novena that ends on Christmas Day.
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Measures that level the field between priests and parishioners would help bridge the distance between the two, opening up more options for actual friendship and genuine collaboration.
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You won't overhear many people speaking Russian in Sea Cliff these days, as you would have in the 1970s, residents say, because many parishioners now live elsewhere.
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The Virginia senator encouraged parishioners to vote, emphasizing the responsibility to participate politically in accordance with Christian values, and reminded them of the October 18 registration deadline.
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In it, he challenges church leaders and queer parishioners alike to find common ground, in the hopes that the church can move forward from its homophobic past.
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Church leaders will create a committee of parishioners to explore options for displaying the plaques "prominently and with appropriate historical context on our campus," the letter says.
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McDowell's apparent inspiration, white supremacist Dylann Roof, was sentenced to death last month for gunning down nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church in June 2015.
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However, prosecutor Scarlett Wilson is also prosecuting Dylann Roof, the white suspect in the killings of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church, in a July trial.
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In the days leading up to Russian Christmas on January 7, parishioners parade from house to house carrying a wooden star, which represents the star of Bethlehem.
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People were on the verge of losing their jobs, he added, and church elders felt they had no choice but to call on parishioners to give in.
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"Many of my parishioners escaped from their country this way, and they also bear this mark," he said of the journey in the back of a truck.
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Priest: Parishioners are 'leaving in droves' It's unclear how many of the 600,000 Catholics in the Buffalo diocese would like for Malone to give up his leadership.
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The attack by Mr. Roof, who is white, against black parishioners who had welcomed him to their Bible study renewed debates about race relations in the South.
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But it's unclear how the church's parishioners fit into the business side of things or if they're employed by GR Group's various companies across the island nation.
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The parishioners are constituents he desperately needs to vote for him if he has any chance of winning re-election in his suburban Denver seat in November.
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"Our parishioners can occasionally find themselves strapped for physical cash, so it's fantastic to be able to offer an alternative which is quick and convenient," says Davie.
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On Sunday night, distraught parishioners gathered near the smoldering ruins of the church, where smoke and the acrid smell of ash hung for hours in the air.
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Roof, a white supremacist, is charged with killing nine African-American parishioners on June 17, 2015, during a Bible study meeting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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In Hnath's breakout play, " The Christians ," from 123, a doubting pastor tries to persuade his angry parishioners that a person can have faith without believing in Hell.
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But at Ms. Mastropietro's funeral, parishioners in the back of the church whispered "No, no, no" when a delegation of Nigerian officials came to pay their respects.
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That would have prohibited him from legally buying the military-style rifle he used to kill 26 parishioners on Sunday inside a church in Sutherland Springs, Tex.
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The pope has argued that the abuse is a symptom of a culture of privilege and imperviousness among priests who value the church's traditions over its parishioners.
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Is it true that your church conducts funeral services "in absentia" for undocumented parishioners who can't return to their countries of origin for funerals of loved ones?
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It also came two days after the third anniversary of the killing of nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston by Dylann Roof.
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But the magical thinking that she is going to see her murdered son again, along with the hugs from and songs with fellow parishioners, can sustain her.
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The Associated Press first reported Thursday that Seattle's Archbishop Paul Etienne urged parishioners who show signs of illness to remain home in a letter to parish leaders.
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"Four," he said, looking out at the four parishioners in a small chapel behind the soaring Gothic sanctuary of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart here.
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At one point, they blocked the front doors and refused to let Father Román inside to offer Mass in his own church — so the parishioners prayed outside.
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Dylann S. Roof, the white supremacist who fatally shot nine black parishioners in Charleston, S.C., last year, was found guilty on all counts by a federal jury.
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"Two of the parishioners who are volunteers on the security force drew their weapons and took out the killer immediately, saving untold number of lives," he said.
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Those parishioners, who were also volunteer members of the church's security team, are able to carry guns into church due to a law passed by Texas Gov.
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The parishioners say Father Quinn has told them that means they will vacate St. Joseph's this spring unless something changes, even though the lease ends in 2019.
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These parishioners weren't gathered for a powerful and life-changing morning; they were there as spectators, and this was spectacle, because Kanye can't help but be Kanye.
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Standing in the Emanuel sanctuary after the two-hour service, many parishioners, including some survivors of the 2015 tragedy, said Trump's words incited division and inflamed tensions.
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Kauf recently founded a spiritual emergency hotline for his parishioners in the small southern village of Boleslawow in southern Poland with the aim of helping those in need.
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Last year (Happy 2016!), John Oliver took predatory televangelists to task for squeezing their parishioners for every last penny, then using those millions to support their lavish lifestyles.
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Father Clive wants us to know that he is doing today's cat blessing for the benefit of the parishioners, and not because he's weird about cats or whatever.
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She ran a Tumblr page called "CharlestonChurchMiracle" – named for Dylann Roof's deadly attack on a historic black church in South Carolina in 2015, which left nine parishioners dead.
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For this reason, he said, it was all the more vital that faith communities respond effectively to parishioners dealing with mental illness, getting them the help they need.
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Since then, however, Kay Warren has become an outspoken advocate for mental health care, encouraging pastors to educate themselves to recognize the warning signs of parishioners in need.
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This is a Southern church led by a white Southern pastor in a deep red state with mostly (but not exclusively) white parishioners and an all-white leadership.
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Others took it much more seriously: Churches taught parishioners lessons on how to convert the army of robots the US military was building to assist the AI's directives.
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In Wittenberg, Germany, one church has taken to automating spiritual guidance, creating a new robot, called the Bless U-2, that offers robotic benedictions to its fleshy parishioners.
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After Dylann Roof gunned down nine black parishioners in a Charleston church back in 2015, photos surfaced of the self-identified white supremacist posing with a Confederate flag.
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The issue became front and center in the United States after the 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners by a white supremacist at a Charleston, South Carolina, church.
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" Lee also shared a snippet of what he told his parishioners in tendering his resignation: "I regret that speaking out has caused concern and pain to my church.
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Charleston A young, white man entered the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in June 2015 and, after joining a Bible study class, opened fire and killed nine parishioners.
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On Sunday, Assistant Police Chief Michael Brunson spoke to parishioners about the release of unspecified video footage during a program for a nonviolence initiative at a Milwaukee church.
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He said that the white individual who is charged in the shooting of nine black parishioners in South Carolina did not represent the views of all white Americans.
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He nearly broke down addressing Sunday's service, the first since a gunman entered the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs last week and opened fire on Pomeroy's parishioners.
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He vividly remembered the day in 21977 when, under procedures to bring the clergy closer to their congregations, he celebrated Mass facing his parishioners for the first time.
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Montreal Dispatch MONTREAL — For generations, parishioners whispered their sins in the dark wooden confessional booths of Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours, an imposing Roman Catholic church in Montreal.
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Cardinal Wuerl has faced calls for his resignation by some of his priests and parishioners since the release of a bombshell grand jury report last month in Pennsylvania.
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"Upon serious reflection and prayer, I have concluded that this practice has become a roadblock to moving our local Church forward," Cunningham wrote to parishioners, according to Syracuse.com.
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They were also galvanized by the 2015 killing of eight black parishioners and their pastor at Emanuel AME church, by Dylann Roof, a man who professed white supremacy.
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"The pain and the suffering [of victims] are something that we need to take responsibility for," Wuerl told his parishioners shortly after the Pennsylvania report was made public.
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Bernard Preynat to the authorities from 20183 to 22018, after parishioners accused the priest of sexually abusing dozens of Boy Scouts in the late 22001s and early 22016s.
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About 40 minutes later, with the parishioners' eyes closed for a benediction, Mr. Roof pulled the weapon out, and began to fire seven magazines of hollow-point rounds.
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When he arrived to take over after Father Crowley left, he remembered getting some calls from parishioners wary of the official line that he had chosen to retire.
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After a nearly monthlong gathering, a group of bishops presented Pope Francis with a document calling for the increased inclusion of women and young parishioners in the church.
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The pastor had ended the service early to give parishioners a chance to meet in person the billionaire presidential candidate who they can't escape on their TV screens.
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A group of parishioners and clergy at a church a half mile from where the helicopter went down certainly remember and are likely to for a long time.
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His 2015 eulogy in Charleston, S.C., after a Confederate flag-waving white supremacist slaughtered nine African-American parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, was redolent with history.
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Parishioners who cannot tolerate even a trace amount of gluten should receive "wine only," the bishops' conference says, even if they would normally receive bread but not wine.
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Hundreds of parishioners gathered at a Pennsylvania church Wednesday to exchange or renew their wedding vows -- some clutching unloaded AR-15 rifles, according to CNN affiliate WFMZ-TV.
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"He was a man who never had any pastoral experience," she said, contending that his academic background had not prepared him well for dealing with parishioners' everyday concerns.
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Shooter Dylann Roof killed nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015, and his actions were widely accepted as a racially motivated attack.
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Some priests in Phoenix's Mexican-American neighborhoods harangued their parishioners the weekend before the election about the evils of abortion and often implicitly tied it to Mrs. Clinton.
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He lost a philandering brother-in-law and a young niece and nephew, as well as many parishioners, but the defining loss in Matt's life is his wife.
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Claret said that his group had sold empanadas, a traditional Chilean pastry, since August to help pay for as many as 30 parishioners to go to the Santiago protests.
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Mr Wood says he does his best to persuade such parishioners to return, but if they claim God called them to his church there is little he can do.
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Confederacy statues and flags have been removed from public spaces across the United States since 2015, after a white supremacist murdered nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church.
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Roof allegedly sat alongside his victims for about one hour during a Bible study class inside the Emanuel AME Church before opening fire on the parishioners, authorities have said.
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Hagatña, Guam (CNN)Father Paul Gofigan began his homily with a question for the parishioners in Guam's biggest place of worship -- the Catholic Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica.
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The question of enabling, or even encouraging, parishioners to shoot back is a discussion particularly important to communities where guns are a part of life, such as rural Texas.
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Initially, it was one of more than a dozen Boston-area Catholic churches occupied by parishioners, but the other groups either lost in the courts or abandoned their efforts.
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A few dozen parishioners and a crowd of photographers had gathered outside the church on Sunday morning in cold, rainy weather as other members of the royal family arrived.
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The numbers overall may also be boosted by a "Souls to the Polls" drive that is being organized by churches, synagogues and mosques to encourage their parishioners to participate.
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Creflo Dollar says he needs a $65 million Gulfstream jet to help him spread the good word, and had the nerve to ask his parishioners to pay for it.
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On Friday, several dozen friends and parishioners gathered on East 182nd Street, at the corner of Grote Street, for the unveiling of a sign for John C. Flynn Way.
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Ms. Atchison said that after Ms. McCray visited her church in March, more than a dozen parishioners approached her for advice about relatives or co-workers with mental illness.
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" Besides news reports, word of the fire spread by word of mouth and over the church's website, which alerted parishioners with a simple headline: "Our Church Has Burned Down.
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More than 170 years old, the church closed in 2013, but some of its former parishioners — many who were French-speaking — still feel a strong attachment to the building.
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Mr. Roof has been at the jail since a day after the June 17, 2015, killings of nine parishioners during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Sandino, Cuba (CNN)Parishioners wiped away tears and gave thanks to God as the first Roman Catholic church built since the 1959 Cuban revolution opened its doors on Saturday.
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Some lawmakers have been seeking to limit displays of the Confederate banner since a racially motivated murder of nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, S.C. last year.
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He sent robocalls to his parishioners warning them not to shake hands, and he is already mulling the idea of canceling Mass if the outbreak becomes a widespread emergency.
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A little while later, a disgruntled local schoolteacher burst into the crowded church, clad in body armor and armed with two assault rifles, and opened fire on the parishioners.
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The flag would remain on the Statehouse grounds until 2015, when it was removed in the aftermath of the racist killing of black parishioners at Charleston's Mother Emanuel church.
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They include the modest, white-painted First Baptist Church, where a lone gunman burst in brandishing an assault rifle during a Sunday service and killed at least 26 parishioners.
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As part of his agreement with prosecutors, Bishop O'Brien admitted that he had shuffled priests into new assignments without telling their new superiors or parishioners of the abuse allegations.
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The video depicts a scene inside the "Church of Fake News," where parishioners rise as Mr. Trump — dressed in a black pinstripe suit and tie — walks down the aisle.
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Many parishioners complained that the decrees were posted the Friday before the Fourth of July, increasing the likelihood of missing the 153-day window the Vatican gives for appeals.
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Consider 2015, a feverish June night in South Carolina, when Dylann Roof, feeding off racist conspiracy theories, walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and murdered nine black parishioners.
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Last week, a gunman opened fire during Sunday service at a Texas church, killing two parishioners before an armed member of the church's volunteer security team fatally shot him.
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The most difficult to get permission to photograph was the Virginia nudist church; to make the parishioners more comfortable, Abad took off his own clothes while taking the photographs.
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Bryant, 41, and his family were regulars at the Newport Beach church, praying along with hundreds of other parishioners during mass and never trying to attract attention to themselves.
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Watson said he felt "led by God to do it," noting that many parishioners at his church are from the nations Trump allegedly insulted, according to the Daily News.
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Parishioners of St. Anne Church brought water from home to be blessed by Fr. Matthew Barzare before it was loaded onto a plane and distributed by a cropduster pilot.
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Dylann S. Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine parishioners in Charleston, S.C., in 903, later said he was inspired to kill because of media coverage of Trayvon's shooting.
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The deal was announced to the former parishioners of Our Lady of Peace by letter at their new church, St. John the Evangelist-Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church.
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"Pope Francis was delighted to learn that your parish, together with the archdiocese, was interested in assisting the Coptic Orthodox Church in this way," the letter to parishioners said.
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The Justice Department intends to seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing nine black parishioners last year in a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Beside the town hall, the objective of the attack, parish priest Federico de los Santos was in his church along with a half-dozen parishioners when the gunfire began.
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The priest also delivered the news to his parishioners during Sunday services, at which he was given a standing ovation, according to a report in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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A gunman clad in all black, with a ballistic vest strapped to his chest and a military-style rifle in his hands, opened fire on parishioners at a Nov.
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In both communities, Father Neil rallied his parishioners to confront their fears — and often landlords and politicians — and lift up their community from poverty, poor housing and ill health.
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Some lawmakers have been seeking to limit displays of the Confederate banner since a racially motivated murder of nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, S.C. last year.
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But for now, visitors entering the medieval space, like the parishioners of centuries past, will be greeted by sobering messages of the inescapable afterlife, all unfolding in glaring, immersive form.
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Andrew Crosse is buried under an obelisk shaped tombstone in Broomfield churchyard—in an area usually reserved for outsiders and miscreants, which may indicate how the local parishioners viewed him.
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A pastor at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, she is set to commemorate the solemn anniversary of the horrific June 17, 2015, shooting that left nine of her parishioners dead.
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Smuggling him back to Hilltop was Gabriel's greater purpose in life; delivering him to Maggie would finally grant him the forgiveness he's searched for since abandoning his parishioners years ago.
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Dylann Roof sat for 40 minutes with parishioners at the landmark Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston for a Bible study meeting before opening fire on June 17, 2015.
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If you are down on your luck, it helps if you have circles of supporters to turn to – whether that happens to be your cousins, your coworkers, or fellow parishioners.
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In 2015, calls to remove Confederate symbols and monuments heated up after the massacre of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, South Carolina, church by a self-described white supremacist.
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Rogers said the parishioners would hold a farewell celebration at the church in Scituate, about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Boston, on Sunday, May 29, and end their occupation.
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World One recent Sunday morning in the western Ukrainian village of Ptycha, a battle for control of the church between rival Orthodox factions forced parishioners to worship in unusual places.
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"I always encourage them, 'Stay at home,'" Father Simon Thang Duc Nguyen, the parish priest at a Catholic church in East London attended by many migrant parishioners, said this week.
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But they did not begin dating, in accordance with the church frowning on clergy members developing romantic attachments to parishioners, until after Ms. Cadwallader began a new job, in 2010.
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Nine parishioners, all African-American, were shot by a young white man who entered their Charleston, South Carolina, church, joined their Bible study for an hour and then opened fire.
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Roof was indicted for 33 federal crimes for a killing spree at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015 that resulted in the death of nine parishioners.
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Separately, lawyers for Dylann Roof, the white man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015 are arguing that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
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In 2015, a white gunman killed nine black parishioners at a historic black church in downtown Charleston, S.C. Dylann S. Roof, a self-radicalized white supremacist, confessed to the killings.
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Many have challenged him, in sometimes coarse language, for his openness to making some church practices less rigid, among them the exclusion of divorced and remarried parishioners from receiving Communion.
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Francis has often made clear that he sees clericalism, or a priest's belief that he is superior to his parishioners, as the root evil that grows into corruption and abuse.
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Eric S.C. Manning, who leads Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., where nine parishioners were massacred during a Bible study in 2015, met with the Rabbi Jeffrey Myers.
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The killings of nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston and 297 congregants at a synagogue in Pittsburgh brought people in those two communities together in an unspeakable grief.
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Written by the Catholic priest Daniel Berrigan and based largely on verbatim transcripts, it describes how Berrigan, his brother and fellow priest, and seven parishioners napalmed several hundred draft cards.
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Father Suganob and the parishioners were abducted during heavy firefights around Marawi, a city of 200,000 on the island of Mindanao that has been reduced almost to a ghost town.
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Every three years since 2010, Pastor Bryan Carter has issued a call to arms to his 8,214 parishioners at Concord, in South Dallas: Disavow living together and commit to marriage.
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As a result, state officials fear that these unregulated associations could put unsuspecting parishioners at risk, especially since most faith-based organizations do not allow members to sue for nonpayment.
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"His disgraceful conduct violated the civil rights of the church's parishioners and harmed their communities," Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the civil rights division, said in a news release.
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A USA Today op-ed stating it was "terrifying" that several parishioners were armed when a gunman opened fire during a church service in Texas was roasted on social media.
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That afternoon several hundred tech startup employees, venture capital investors, and Crossroads parishioners gathered in the dark, cavernous auditorium of Crossroads Florence, one of the church's several campuses in Kentucky.
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"But I find myself wishing that they had as much sympathy for other parishioners they have who are adversely affected by illegal immigration" because of jobs, higher taxes or crime.
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The Ortega supporters ultimately forced their way in to the church, according to the priest, prompting the priest to plead with the group to let his parishioners go home safely.
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City Police Chief J.P. Bevering said the shooter entered West Freeway Church of Christ and sat down in the sanctuary, then stood, pulled out a shotgun and shot two parishioners.
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"I know that this news is disturbing and will surface many emotions," the Pastor of St. Michael Parish, Fr. Frank A. Kurucz, wrote to parishioners on the morning of Dec.
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Twenty-six parishioners were killed, and 20 others injured, when a lone gunman, feuding with his in-laws, entered the service with a military-style rifle and began firing indiscriminately.
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It reminds me of the way some Catholics are very protective of unborn children but turn a blind eye to the pedophiles in the church who systemically exploit young parishioners.
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The papal appointment outraged many parishioners, national legislators and abuse victims who said Barros had protected a priest accused of having been one of the nation's most notorious sexual predators.
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For Blanca Urdaneta, who sells candles to parishioners outside a church in downtown Caracas, news of the escalating tensions between Venezuela and the United States just added to her worries.
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For years, the village's spiritual needs have been tended by a conventional brand of Christianity imposed by the local plantation owner, to whom most of the parishioners owe their livelihood.
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The Polish Catholic priest wants to be close to his parishioners, even if it means driving the tiny car up and down steep roads at any time of day or night.
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After all, a priest's parishioners mostly have families to which they return, primary attachments in the context of which they can bitch and moan and feel generally safe in so doing.
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Celibacy is one of the biggest acts of self-sacrifice a Catholic priest is called upon to make, forgoing spouse, progeny and sexual fulfilment for his relationship with parishioners and God.
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Prince's last days: Health scares, thrilling shows, purple pianos Parishioners at St. Louis Park congregation, gathering for the first service since Prince's death, have had years to push aside his fame.
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John D. Romas held his small congregation together as its worship services moved to Brooklyn and instilled in his parishioners the hope that they would live to see their church rebuilt.
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A Catholic priest and about a dozen of his parishioners were taken on the first day of the battle by militants who burst into the town's cathedral and set it alight.
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William Barber, a board member of the NAACP and the leader of the new campaign, stressed that white as well as black parishioners need to confront white supremacy and capitalist exploitation.
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"Let your LGBT brothers and sisters know that you stand with them... Be courageous," Martin told about 1,000 delegates, before listing concrete steps for priests to take to welcome gay parishioners.
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It's been a year since a gunman walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with a prayer group before opening fire, killing nine black parishioners.
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Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old white supremacist who murdered nine parishioners of a South Carolina church in June 2015, was sentenced to death on Tuesday, the New York Times reports.
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But while some members of his church showed support for him, Lee wrote that he felt he had no choice but to resign when parishioners opted to vote on his tenure.
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Many clergy members and parishioners have already participated in what the city called first-aid training to learn how to identify mental illness and better direct people to find professional help.
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Luzmila Morales, a catechism teacher, said that just this month, even before the quake struck, she and other parishioners had escaped when a hillside collapsed, leaving her bus under an avalanche.
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About 260 miles to the east, in Mabu township, riot police officers blocked parishioners from entering the grounds of the Dachang Church while workers erected scaffolding and sawed off the cross.
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When Dylann Roof, a white man, killed eight black parishioners and their pastor at a church in Charleston, he tried to make us feel that we could not all live together.
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"Don't apologize to parishioners for what happened, but apologize to them for the fact that you lied to them for so many years," said one victim called Dariusz, close to tears.
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The call for Southern states to remove their existing Confederate imagery ramped up after a self-proclaimed white supremacist gunned down nine black church parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
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Sanders then told defense lawyer David Bruck during cross-examination that she was glad when Roof had said at the scene that he would kill himself after gunning down nine parishioners.
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Moscow believes that its large number of adherents gives it the right to lead, especially since the mother church is down to about 3,000 parishioners in Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim country.
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"I haven't received a single negative comment from parishioners about using livestream for this funeral," said Sabourin, who is currently in self-isolation after recently returning from out of the country.
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Parnham's trial revealed that he was apparently radicalized by the crimes of American white supremacist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine African-American parishioners in the Charleston church shooting in June 2015.
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Michael ripped most of two walls out from the red-brick St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Panama City, but parishioners spent Saturday handing out food, water and clothes to others.
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In July, after a white supremacist gunned down nine black parishioners in a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, the state's governor Nikki Haley removed the Confederate flag from the capitol.
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" Then, in June 2015, after a white supremacist killed nine black parishioners at a historic church in Charleston, she watched her husband lead mourners in a poignant rendition of "Amazing Grace.
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Indeed the rule of Donald Trump is predicated on the infliction of maximum misery on West's most ardent parishioners, the portions of America, the muck, that made the god Kanye possible.
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But parishioners and residents said they would also let the investigation unfold before making any judgments about what the fires might say about their community, which is just north of Lafayette.
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One the consortium recently accepted is called Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, devised for the Hmong language by a minister in California whose parishioners have been using it for more than 25 years.
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The River at Tampa Bay Church in Hillsborough County live streamed their morning service on Sunday, revealing to viewers at home that parishioners were packed side-by-side inside the church.
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It was the church's first Sunday service since a masked gunman, Devin P. Kelley, opened fire on parishioners in a methodical shooting that may have lasted as long as seven minutes.
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It's expected that the majority of American congregations will choose to remain in the more liberal denomination, but Graves-Fitzsimmons is worried about how those congregation votes will affect LGBTQ parishioners.
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But it was imperative, he told his lawyers and psychiatric examiners, that his trial not distort or dilute his purpose for gunning down nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Republican officials in Texas praised a law that allowed Texans to carry guns into churches after two parishioners fired back and killed a gunman during a Sunday service in White Settlement.
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This period corresponds to a period of prolific church-building in America, as cities grew and parishioners multiplied; some 4,403 churches were under construction in the United States in 1888 alone.
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Police and government officials praised two parishioners at a Texas church who fired back at and killed a gunman who opened fire during a Sunday service, according to The Associated Press.
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In the summer, during the busy obon season—the yearly festival to honor family ancestors—these six brothers would assemble in Kyoto and divide up the visits to the temple's parishioners.
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In the aftermath of the horrific mass murder of parishioners attending Sunday services in a church in the small town of Sutherland Springs Texas, we learned about the killer's violent past.
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Twenty-six people were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and eight parishioners and their pastor were gunned down during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Workers at the barbershop, the bakery and the furniture store, and parishioners at the churches near his family's home, said they did not know Mr. Santiago or his family at all.
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President Trump tweeted his praise Monday for the parishioners who returned fire on a gunman on a gunman who entered their church in Fort Worth, Texas, and the state's gun laws.
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There's the intimacy of Franklin's father wiping the sweat off her brow, or the parishioners dancing and praising in the pews, all under a mural of Jesus in the River Jordan.
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One of the armed parishioners who took down the gunman that opened fired at the West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas is being identified by multiple news outlets as Jack Wilson.
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But on the other hand, with a careless word, he makes one of his parishioners cut out his own heart, turns another into a mass murderer, and sends a third to hell.
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Tasked with subjugating unruly slaves through religious education, Turner begins to use his position to organize a revolt after witnessing the brutal treatment of his parishioners at the hands of their masters.
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While the NCC does, indeed, formally represent a number of significant faith groups, it does not directly speak for them, nor does it necessarily reflect the stance of parishioners on the ground.
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I stand with a few other freezing parishioners for a few minutes to see if they will open so I can get ashes and pray for a hot second, but no luck.
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A sheriff in Williamson County, Texas, a two-hour drive from the massacre, expects to discuss arming parishioners at a church security summit he is organizing in the wake of the attack.
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The issue rose to prominence after the 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a self-described white supremacist.
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A source told the The Blast, which first reported the news, that the couple led the palm procession around the Catholic church, and a smiling Loughlin was seen exchanging greetings with parishioners.
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Robert E. Lee has stepped down as pastor of his North Carolina church after facing blowback from parishioners and others for his comments denouncing racism and lauding the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Dylann Roof, the white man charged in the shooting massacre of nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, S.C., was assaulted in jail on Thursday by a black inmate, officials said.
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Still, parishioners at Paris's solidly bourgeois Sainte-Trinité church, a hulking 19th-century neo-Renaissance monument that looms over a busy square, were in no doubt that Mr. Fillon was the one.
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Five days before Election Day in 1872, Victoria and Tennessee published a story alleging that a prominent preacher named Henry Beecher had engaged in an adulterous affair with one of his parishioners.
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PTYCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) - One recent Sunday morning in the western Ukrainian village of Ptycha, a battle for control of the church between rival Orthodox factions forced parishioners to worship in unusual places.
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Church parishioners gathered on Thursday evening, not to attend to the teachings of Jesus Christ, but to study the final chapter of the life of that ill-fated king of Thebes, Oedipus.
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The most complete accounting to date came in 2004, when then-Bishop William Murphy said in a letter to parishioners that 66 priests had been accused of abuse from 1957 until 2002.
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On the other hand, I received a generic email from the pastor of a church I intermittently attended in the Lexington, Kentucky, diocese inviting parishioners to contact him directly with any concerns.
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" Mr. Wood kept his job, ministering quietly to his parishioners, as gay rights advanced on an arc that almost certainly could not have been predicted when he wrote "Christ and the Homosexual.
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Some of the heads bent over prayer books had skullcaps, others were bare: Parishioners from at least three churches had joined in the service, and the homily was recited by the Rev.
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One of the armed parishioners who took down the gunman that opened fired at the West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas is being identified by multiple news outlets as Jack Wilson.
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Zoe and Hillsong are two of the many hipster-seeking evangelical churches across America that hide their views about LGBTQ parishioners behind things such as their pastor's tattoos and amped-up music.
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In his brief opening statement, he told jurors that he was not mentally ill, and he offered no apology for killing nine black parishioners at a Bible study class in South Carolina.
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Prayer and seeking understanding and working diligently to purify our souls through moral education — much like the parishioners in First Baptist Church last Sunday — is clearly a better path for seeking salvation.
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" The grand jury concluded, "In spite of Wuerl's statements to the Vatican, the clear and present threat that Paone posed to children was hidden and kept secret from parishioners in three states.
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Dylann Roof, who fatally shot nine black parishioners in South Carolina last year, awaits sentencing by the same jury in a few weeks, either to life in prison without parole or death.
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Closing arguments are scheduled today in the sentencing phase for the white supremacist convicted of killing nine black parishioners in Charleston, S.C. Mr. Roof, who represented himself, could face the death penalty.
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"With the utmost sensitivity to victims, I have pledged to continue efforts of transparency and need to make you aware of this atrocious and sad event," Burns told St. Cecilia's parishioners in August.
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Advocates for sex abuse victims say Hunthausen could have done more to protect young parishioners, but they also credit him with being more proactive than his predecessors or other bishops around the country.
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Why we mourn the days the music dies Other parishioners offered more blunt pronouncements about Prince and an alleged aversion to surgery on his hips because of Jehovah's Witness beliefs about blood transfusions.
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In his previous parish ministries across the U.S., he's worked with the Crisis Control Ministry, which aims to help low-income community members, and the Absalom Jones initiative, designated to support Black parishioners.
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Hope builds, and by book's end, readers find a chapter-long celebration of the president's soaring invocations of "Amazing Grace" during last year's memorial service for the slain parishioners of Emanuel A.M.E. Church.
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Since Dylann Roof's murder of nine parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 15th, 2015, the removal of powerful, hurtful symbols has been a national obsession.
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Ms. Hatcher, the movement's founder, said though ribbons had at times been stripped from the fences by parishioners, they tied people together and now served as a symbol of speaking out against abuse.
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Meanwhile, Dylann Roof, the hate-filled racist accused of slaughtering nine black parishioners in a South Carolina church last year, was fed Burger King by police after complaining he was hungry upon arrest.
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Two years ago, my mother and two cousins were among the nine black parishioners who were shot and killed by a hate-fueled man at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The issue gained momentum after the 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, by a self-described white supremacist who prosecutors said posed for photos with the Confederate battle flag.
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Simon Thang Duc Nguyen, the parish priest at a Roman Catholic church in East London attended by many migrant parishioners, said eight families had called him and sent details about their relatives' identities.
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Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch has decided to seek the death penalty for Dylann S. Roof, a white man charged with killing nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston, S.C., last year.
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A Catholic priest has been arrested for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from parishioners' donations and using the money on personal travel and gifts for men he met on a gay dating app.
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If a priest was removed from his position, parishioners were not told why, and the priests were often transferred to a new parish where the congregation was unaware of the accusations against him.
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The church's move toward rapprochement with China has run into resistance from clerics and parishioners who have worried about forfeiting the independence they have asserted — often at great cost — by defying the government.
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For most of his life Mr. Peterson was a small-town pastor and college professor who spread the Gospel with paperback books and with his sermons and ministrations to a few hundred parishioners.
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The Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn also said that most of their parishes would continue to celebrate Mass, although parishioners were under no religious obligation to attend Sunday services.
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Though the scene was created in 2005 by a group of parishioners and artisans, it is peopled (as most historically inspired scenes are) with a broad cast of characters from 17th-century Rome.
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Then, on June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., where the senator was holding Bible study, and shot and killed him and eight other parishioners.
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The archdiocese has been having trouble raising money from parishioners because of an "overarching problem of mistrust and antagonism toward the archdiocese," Cardinal Dolan wrote in a biting letter to priests in November.
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"The Catholic Church has a moral obligation to provide its parishioners and the public a complete and accurate accounting of all sexually inappropriate behavior involving priests in Illinois," Madigan said in a statement.
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But the former parishioners of Our Lady of Peace were shocked to learn that their church, founded by Italian immigrants, was on the agenda of popes while their legal appeal was still active.
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I have friends who have been parishioners at Trinity Lutheran, and it is preposterous to think that if Missouri helps pay for a playground, that will be the end of true faith there.
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In my journey to discovering what I call a "Purpose Path," I encountered several people — students, business executives, parishioners and their families — who felt they were living a life based on somebody else's values.
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She ran a Tumblr page idolizing serial killers and mass shooters, and tried to send Nazi literature to Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, who's in federal prison in South Carolina for killing nine parishioners.
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Meanwhile, Williamson's clear preference for Al Gore during the 2000 election put some parishioners off, the Metro Times wrote, even if she concluded with a request to pray for and love George W. Bush.
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Charleston shooting June 17, 2015 Self-proclaimed white supremacist Dylann Roof sat in a late-night Bible study group with parishioners of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 20163.
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The Times describes the scene: The video depicts a scene inside the "Church of Fake News," where parishioners rise as Mr. Trump — dressed in a black pinstripe suit and tie — walks down the aisle.
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Parishioners at St Mary's church, which is sandwiched between an 800-year-old mosque and a Shiva temple, break their Good Friday fast by sharing rice porridge and mango chutney with neighbours and strangers.
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Hines founded Save Southern Heritage during the 2015 debate over whether to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina state grounds after a white supremacist killed 9 black parishioners at a church in Charleston.
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Roof, 22, an avowed white supremacist, was found guilty in December on all federal charges in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina in 2015.
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So now, some priests and pastors are meeting their parishioners not just at the altar for a sprinkling of holy water or a communion wafer, but at the bar on the corner, as well.
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The shooter who massacred nine black parishioners in a South Carolina church in 2015 was able to buy a gun when the FBI did not finish his background check within the three-day period.
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The dust-up began after a racially motivated mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina in June last year, when a young white man killed nine black parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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ABOVE the announcement for confessions on Tuesday at 7pm, the weekly bulletin for St Rose of Lima's church near Philadelphia had an unusual notice for parishioners with the heading, "JUST SO YOU ARE AWARE".
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Dylann Roof, the avowed white supremacist accused of killing nine black parishioners at a historic Charleston, South Carolina church last year, is a 4613-year-old man with a presumed history of drug use.
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Dylann S. Roof, the self-avowed white supremacist who is accused of killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston, S.C., church in June 2015, is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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In the past week, Latino parishioners and students at Catholic colleges have been "turning to the church, calling their pastors, and pastors are calling their bishops and asking what to expect," Mr. Corbett said.
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While later episodes may dive into their actual parishioners—the perhaps decent people who follow the Gemstones' teachings—the show places so much focus is on the family's faults that it loses its humanity.
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A historic Serbian Orthodox church in Manhattan that plays an important role in New York's Serbian community was gutted by flames on Sunday, just hours after parishioners had filled its pews for Easter services.
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Dylann Roof, the shooter convicted of killing nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Church, was a white-supremacist who often donned a Confederate flag and says he was trying to ignite a race war.
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"Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are the only two days of the whole year on which fasting and abstinence are required," Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo told parishioners in a video posted online Friday.
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On that day in 2009, Mr. Roeder carried out the mission he'd been planning: He walked up to Dr. Tiller as he was handing out programs and greeting fellow parishioners in the church foyer.
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Eric S.C. Manning, who leads Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., where nine parishioners were shot to death in a racist attack during a Wednesday night Bible study on June 113, 211.
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In the heart of Ciudad Juárez I crossed the street to where the parishioners from the centuries-old Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe were walking through the adjacent park, the Plaza de Armas.
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Then a priest sounded an alarm: One of his parishioners, a mother of four who had fled gang violence in Mexico, had been picked up by immigration agents and was about to be deported.
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But this was Texas, where a pair of state laws adopted since 267 not only authorize armed security details at houses of worship, but also allow parishioners to bring their own weapons to church.
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We attended the ecstatic Sunday service at the Tabernacle of Praise, where parishioners danced, sang and fainted in the aisles and Selma's energetic young mayor, the church's associate pastor, Darrio Melton, preached the sermon.
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The story, a bit ponderous at the beginning, at least for this nonreligious reviewer, picks up once Maura arrives in Nicaragua in 1959 and gets involved with the needs and hopes of her parishioners.
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But it regained momentum in fall 2015, a few months after nine African-American church parishioners in Charleston, S.C., were murdered by a white supremacist, who had posed with the Confederate flag in photos.
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He did not visit the dozens of parishes he ordered merged in New York to offer support to the heartbroken parishioners, and he has been unbending in the face of appeals to the Vatican.
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Following the Washington changes, Eugene Sutton, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, banned priests from distributing wine during communion, reminding parishioners that receiving the bread alone was still considered a full communion.
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About six years ago, nearly half of Trinity's vestry — a group of parishioners who function like a board of directors — resigned because they felt the church wasn't doing enough to help those in need.
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The Walradts and their two young children, Jessica, then 14, and Trent, 11, soon became parishioners at All Saints' Church in Princeton, N.J., where Mr. Travers was entrenched as a member of its vestry.
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Sophie and Jasper, who belong to Ms. Walradt, and Red Cloud and Geronimo, who belong to Mr. Travers, would also eventually meet at their church during a blessing ceremony for the pets of parishioners.
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Some took it down in 2015 after nine black parishioners in a church in Charleston, S.C., were shot and killed by a white supremacist who had posed with the Confederate battle flag in photographs.
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Roof, the 22-year-old who faces state murder charges and federal hate crime charges for gunning down nine black parishioners in June 2015, won the petition to be his own lawyer on Monday morning.
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Fernando Karadima, a powerful preacher in Chile who was sentenced by the Vatican in 2011 to a lifetime of penance and prayer for having sexually and spiritually abused young parishioners through an abuse of power.
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In the celibate world, it may be happy but constrained — by the watchful eyes of parishioners and superiors, by public expectation, by personal feelings of guilt, by the lack of a clear path toward commitment.
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Roof's lawyers have not disputed that the avowed white supremacist shot and killed nine black parishioners during a Bible study and asked to call witnesses to testify about his state of mind and personal characteristics.
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Catholic priest Father Teresito "Chito" Soganub and about a dozen of his parishioners were abducted on the first day of the siege when militants burst into the town's cathedral and then set it on fire.
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A state judge in South Carolina has handed down nine consecutive life sentences to Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015.
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More than 1,000 mourners gathered at the St. Sebastian church in the coastal city of Negombo, just north of the capital, Colombo, where more than 100 parishioners were killed as they worshipped on Sunday morning.
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The leadership of the United Methodist Church dropped four formal charges lodged against Attorney General Jeff Sessions by more than 600 pastors and parishioners for his role in defending the Trump administration's family separation policy.
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By showing faith, parishioners could have a "hundredfold" return on their investment, a reference to a verse in the Gospel of Mark about those who suffer for Christ receiving a hundredfold what they have lost.
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Houses of worship, where some parishioners may lean on faith instead of medicine and therapy for mental health issues, seemed a good place to start after an unexpectedly high level of clergy participation, she said.
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One couple has traveled regularly to a truck stop to shower, and a member of a church persuaded a hotel in a neighboring town to let his fellow parishioners bathe there for a minimal fee.
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Nearly 200 parishioners filled almost all the pews for Saturday's Mass at St. Patrick's Church in York, Pennsylvania, where six priests who at one time worked in that parish are accused in the report bit.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Accused white supremacist Dylann Roof is mentally competent to stand trial for the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church last year, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
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Calvin Butts, who leads the 200-year-old Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, Mr. Bernard now commands an enormous, culturally diverse congregation made up of parishioners traveling from all over the state, Mr. Cunningham said.
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Trinity built St. Paul's in the 1760s for parishioners who lived out among wheat fields in the countryside and did not care to make the quarter-mile journey farther down Broadway to the mother church.
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Callaghan's school, Dunes Christian Academy, was one of the first to partner with ATS to transport students from the suburbs and exurbs near El Paso, where most of their parishioners live, to the city center.
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He helped young people in an area with high unemployment avoid the snare of the Mafia, asked parishioners to help police investigations, refused donations from mobsters and banned them from joining traditional religious street processions.
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" Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, said on Fox News on Sunday that churches should consider hiring "professional security, or at least arming some of the parishioners or the congregation, so that they can respond.
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He has faced demands for his resignation from parishioners at Mass, from Catholic schoolteachers protesting on the first day of school, and from a deacon who regularly assisted him during services at the archdiocesan cathedral.
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As testimony ended for the day, dozens of police sergeants, dressed in suits with union lapel pins, mixed with parishioners from an Episcopal church Ms. Danner attended as they flooded out of the courthouse together.
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In a piece on the conservative website Church Militant, two people who claimed to be parishioners — but who did not reveal their names — accused Mr. Bianco of locking out the rosary group, which he denies.
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Pell's lawyers argued that he would have been on the front steps of St Patrick's Cathedral greeting parishioners at the time that his accuser said he was in the priests' sacristy alone with two boys.
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CNN has so far been unable to reach other parishioners at the Cottage Grove campus, but as some told the Pioneer Press, the new changes have made members feel like they will soon be unwelcome.
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It seems the bound corpse of one of Horrigan's parishioners, missing for a decade, has been found in a bog, and Muldoon wants the good father to carry the news to the dead man's brother.
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The sexual assault victim was so terrified of returning to the neighborhood that she feared going back to the Celestial Church of Christ, said the pastor, Kehinde Oyetunde, known as a shepherd by his parishioners.
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The idea that some of these folks can continue in positions of leadership is shocking to me and, by the way, shocking to many parishioners that I hear from in Pennsylvania and across the country.
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Though he was apprehensive on arriving in Mississippi in the early 1970s, as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Natchez-Jackson, most parishioners accepted him, he said, despite the state's history of racial unrest.
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According to parishioners, there has been an offer to reduce the rent from $211 to $238 per square foot, or about $230,000 a year, but that, they say, is still too much for the parish.
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"I Wish We'd All Been Ready" brilliantly frames the circling narrative, from the parishioners' first giddy hopefulness that they've cracked God's code to their devastation when nothing happens, and around again, and again, and again.
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In the days and months before the attack, he read articles about Nazi figures, the Ku Klux Klan and Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Many Buddhist monks drive to visit parishioners, and such a law not only targets them but is too ambiguous for comfort, a monk at the Jodo Shinshu temple in Kagawa prefecture wrote in a blog post.
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In the Ukrainian town of Hvardiiske, where Felshtin once stood, the Catholic priest Father Piotr Glowka has begun an impressive educational program for his parishioners and others so they know why no more Jews are there.
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Theroux's film has all the hallmarks of other notable Scientology exposés like Paul Haggis' Going Clear and Leah Remini's A&E series, including emotional interviews with ex-members and bizarre confrontations with parishioners and private investigators.
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The website suggested Ryan was a hypocrite for sending his children to a Catholic school that offers tuition discounts to parishioners, contrasting the school's position with Ryan's opposition to Trump's proposed religious test for Muslim immigrants.
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Dylann Roof drove to another African-American church after killing nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, a sign he intended to carry out more racially-motivated attacks, U.S. prosecutors said in newly unsealed court documents.
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But among the items some members of the faith hoped they might address was something you wouldn't expect to find in either Testament: the use of binding arbitration to settle disagreements between churches and their parishioners.
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Milwaukee police were so concerned about the initial release of bodycam footage last month that, before its release, Assistant Police Chief Michael Brunson told parishioners of a Milwaukee church that the department was bracing for backlash.
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He said that week he had comforted two parishioners who had lost parents but could not travel home for the funerals because they did not have legal residency and would not be able to come back.
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The change in Georgia came amid debate in the South over what to do with Confederate symbols after the killings of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, by a white supremacist in 2015.
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Mr. Jackson weathered some criticism for inviting Mr. Trump, and his own parishioners were split on Mr. Trump's visit, with several expressing support for Mr. Jackson's decision despite their own negative feelings about Mr. Trump's candidacy.
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In May 1914, White and some of his followers invaded Calvary Baptist Church on West 57th Street during the service to denounce John D. Rockefeller and his son, who were Baptist parishioners in New York City.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The white man charged in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church asked a judge on Sunday if he could have his defense team back, at least temporarily.
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A health care worker told the Italian news outlet Araberara that the priest had been given a respirator that was bought for him by parishioners but asked that it be given to someone younger than him.
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A succession of devastating news stories by Boston Globe reporters showed how priests who sexually abused children had been moved from parish to parish for years under Law's tenure without parishioners or law authorities being informed.
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The right-wing outlet Breitbart seized on his stance, calling it "insane" and asserting it would mean enfranchising convicted murderers like Dylann S. Roof, who killed nine black parishioners in a South Carolina church in 2015.
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Mr. Kinnunen came back to the church on Sunday, but this time, he pulled out a shotgun during the communion service and fatally shot two parishioners — just before Mr. Wilson killed him with a single shot.
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Regional Director of Texas' Department of Public Safety Jeoff Williams told reporters Sunday that the two parishioners who fired back at the shooter were part of the church's security team, but not hired by the church.
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And then they would lock it up in the secret archive and they would lie to law enforcement, they would lie to parishioners, they'd lie to the media and those inquiring, or they would hide it.
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No wonder, then, that a fed-up Catholic priest, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, enamored with American independence and democratic government, loudly pronounced "Death to bad government, death to the gachupines!" to his parishioners at midnight, Sept.
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The fight to save the chapel is led by a small, mostly female group of Battery Park City parishioners, most of whom lived through the attacks and cherish the chapel as a link to Sept. 11.
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For example, Dylann Roof — the self-avowed white supremacist who opened fire on a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 and killed nine black parishioners — faced both state murder charges and federal hate crime charges.
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Focusing on accessible sermons, music that reflected popular tastes, and an informal approach to worship, "seeker-sensitive" churches aimed to meet the needs of parishioners who might feel uncomfortable in a more formal or "traditional" church setting.
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Rylan Ward is receiving treatment at University Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, after he was shot five times by a gunman who opened fire at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, where his family are regular parishioners.
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Sometimes, his day job, with its constant exposure to the worst instincts of humanity, made him so cynical that he would sit in church, look at his fellow parishioners, and wonder what evil things they had done.
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Stars are flocking to the church and its parishioners include a slew of reality stars, such as the Kardashian-Jenner sisters; Nick Jonas; Bieber's ex, Selena Gomez; and pro athletes such as Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant.
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Mark Bowman, a pastor in neighbouring Carthage, says that when his parishioners showed up to donate boxes of food to families of the detained, some "wouldn't come to the door, because they thought we might be ICE".
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There was at first a pause, followed by audible surprise and then a lengthy standing applause from parishioners who had come to hear Bottoms deliver the sermonic address at Ebenezer's Women's Day Sunday Worship — even the Rev.
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More than 1,000 mourners attended a memorial service at St. Sebastian church in the coastal city of Negombo, just north of the capital, Colombo, where more than 100 parishioners were killed as they worshipped on Sunday morning.
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A Catholic priest and five parishioners were killed in an attack in the central town of Dablo on May 12 and another four Catholics died in an attack two days later in the northern town of Ouahigouya.
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Hahn's piece suggested that Ryan was a hypocrite for sending his children to a Catholic school that offers tuition discounts to parishioners, contrasting the school's position with Ryan's opposition to Trump's proposed religious test for Muslim immigrants.
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A jury has sentenced Dylann Storm Roof to die for the murder of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. Roof was found guilty in December of 33 counts of federal hate crimes.
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A terrible week comes to an end with an awful anniversary, of last year's massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S. C., in which a gunman killed nine black parishioners during a prayer service.
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We are sobered by the reality that Catholic leadership failed to hold serial offenders accountable, hid the truth from parishioners and indeed fought to shut down the grand jury investigation that ultimately brought these stories to light.
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Mr. Roof, 22, stands accused of 33 federal counts, including hate crimes resulting in death, stemming from the massacre of nine African-American parishioners during a Bible study session at the historic church on June 17, 2015.
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But the tussle was quickly forgotten when in June a white gunman went on a shooting spree at Emanuel AME Church, a historically black church in Charleston, killing nine parishioners — including the church's senior pastor, state Sen.
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They fear that the Vatican, in its eagerness for a deal, could betray clerics and parishioners who have illicitly practiced their faith for decades and risked arrest and persecution by worshiping in the so-called underground church.
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Lyle Garcia, 72, one of the parishioners involved in the decision to invite Father Martin, admitted to me that he was "very concerned" that in changing the location of the event, they'd rewarded and emboldened the haters.
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The original report was motivated by the 2015 terrorist attack by a gun-wielding white supremacist on the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which killed nine parishioners and devastated the surrounding community.
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Before the trip, Francis made it clear that he viewed the secrecy, ambition and self-preservation that came with a culture of clericalism — priests who put themselves above their parishioners — as the root cause of the crime.
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