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PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh is suing its breakaway parishes to recover $20 million in assets it believes were wrongfully taken when the conservative branches split from the liberal diocese in October.           ]]></description>
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GREER, S.C. (AP) - More than 350 people attended a rally at a church in Greer to protest a federal judge&#8217;s order banning South Carolina from producing a religious license plate that carries the words &#8220;I Believe.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - Eleven Amish families are suing a northern New York community, claiming that its refusal to grant permits for their traditionally built homes is religious discrimination.           ]]></description>
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PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court&#8217;s ruling that there is no constitutional right to use marijuana for religious purposes.           ]]></description>
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pennsylvania organization that says it&#8217;s a church with services consisting of rock and jazz concerts doesn&#8217;t want jurors in its religious freedom lawsuit to see a report from &#8220;The Daily Show.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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SELYBVILLE, Del. (AP) - The pastor of a Delaware church says he&#8217;s anxious to accommodate neighbors who say the church bells are too loud.           ]]></description>
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A California pastor who videotaped himself molesting a 13-year-old girl in a church office has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for sexually abusing five children.           ]]></description>
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NEW YORK (AP) - Neale Donald Walsch, the best-selling author of &#8220;Conversations with God,&#8220; says he unwittingly passed off another writer&#8217;s Christmas anecdote as his own in a recent blog post.           ]]></description>
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - More than 2,000 Christian filmmakers are registered for this week&#8217;s San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.           ]]></description>
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court says three parishes that left the Episcopal Church over gay ordination and Biblical interpretation cannot retain ownership of their church property.           ]]></description>
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CLEVELAND (AP) - A coroner in Cleveland says a disruptive girl who died last month while being restrained by staff members at a church-run treatment center suffocated and choked.           ]]></description>
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Mayor Gavin Newsom is condemning the vandalism of a Roman Catholic church in San Francisco, calling it a &#8220;cowardly and criminal act.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court says three parishes that left the Episcopal Church over gay ordination and Biblical interpretation cannot retain ownership of their church property.           ]]></description>
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MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin county&#8217;s top administrator says there shouldn&#8217;t be any problem defending its Nativity scene on the courthouse lawn from a lawsuit that claims it&#8217;s unconstitutional.           ]]></description>
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MILWAUKEE (AP) - A Wisconsin congregation has decided to leave the Episcopal Church to join a more conservative branch of the world Anglican Communion.           ]]></description>
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) - A Muslim inmate in a Connecticut prison has filed a federal lawsuit, alleging he has been denied meals that conform to his religious standards.           ]]></description>
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PURCELLVILLE, Va. (AP) - Authorities say a Roman Catholic priest in northern Virginia was killed by a falling tree while trying to clear another fallen tree from a road during windy weather.           ]]></description>
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Ohio&#8217;s highest court has turned down an appeal filed by a Toledo priest convicted of murdering a nun.           ]]></description>
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Family and friends say Baptist preacher, national church leader and civil rights activist Stewart C. Cureton has died at age 78.           ]]></description>
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DALLAS (AP) - The Reverend Billy Graham&#8217;s spokesman says the 90-year-old evangelist is feeling well, enjoying the holidays and looking forward to the new year.           ]]></description>
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LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) - The leader of an apocalyptic church in New Mexico has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual misconduct with teenage female followers.           ]]></description>
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - An atheist who has fought to remove the words &#8220;under God&#8221; from the pledge of allegiance wants to remove all religious references from the President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration.           ]]></description>
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Fire has damaged the regional headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church&#8217;s Upper Columbia Conference west of Spokane, Washington.           ]]></description>
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DALLAS (AP) - Evangelist Billy Graham is changing membership from a Dallas church to one in South Carolina near his retirement home.           ]]></description>
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - An atheist soldier suing over prayers at military formations claims a larger pattern of religious discrimination exists in the military.           ]]></description>
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HUNTINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Public school officials in Huntington, Indiana, deny that a religious education program offered during the school day illegally advances religion.           ]]></description>
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The last of nine rural Alabama churches that were burned by arsonists is slated to be rebuilt starting next month.           ]]></description>
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - Americans are among the many Christians from around the world who flocked to Bethlehem this Christmas to celebrate Jesus&#8217; birth.           ]]></description>
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - &#8220;The Voyage of the Dawn Treader&#8221; could be postponed now that the Disney studio has decided not to help produce or finance the third film in &#8220;The Chronicles of Narnia&#8221; series.           ]]></description>
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Vatican City (AP) - Someone tried to get a little too close to Pope Benedict after his Christmas Eve service at Saint Peter&#8217;s Basilica.           ]]></description>
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SHERIDAN, Ore. (AP) - A fire two days before Christmas has destroyed a 133-year-old church in Oregon.           ]]></description>
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ATLANTA (AP) - A municipal judge and court workers in an Atlanta suburb will undergo sensitivity training after a Muslim woman was arrested for refusing to remove her head scarf before a hearing.           ]]></description>
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CINCINNATI (AP) - The coroner in Cincinnati says a flying performer&#8217;s safety harness wasn&#8217;t completely fastened when she had a fatal fall during a Christmas pageant.           ]]></description>
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A Christian woman claims she was fired from her job because she greeted callers with &#8220;Merry Christmas,&#8220; but the vacation rental company says she&#8217;s just a disgruntled employee.           ]]></description>
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RENSSELAER, Ind. (AP) - Pastors in Rensselaer, Indiana, say they&#8217;ll keep praying even though their request for a prayer box in City Hall has been turned down.           ]]></description>
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican is endorsing new technology that brings the book of daily prayers used by priests straight onto iPhones.           ]]></description>
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WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin judge has set separate trials for parents accused of reckless homicide for praying instead of taking their 11-year-old daughter to a doctor as she died of undiagnosed diabetes.           ]]></description>
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee woman has died after setting herself on fire outside a Nashville church for the second time in five weeks.           ]]></description>
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McLEAN, Virginia (AP) - Eleven conservative congregations that quit the Episcopal Church are celebrating a judge&#8217;s ruling that they still own their church buildings.           ]]></description>
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WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) - A trial is back on track for parents accused of praying instead of taking their 11-year-old daughter to a doctor as she died of undiagnosed diabetes.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTE, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont school&#8217;s striped holiday decoration is drawing criticism from a man who says it constitutes a religious display.           ]]></description>
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ATLANTA (AP) - A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint says she believes her human and civil rights were violated.           ]]></description>
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - An atheist group plans to replace a sign that disappeared from the Illinois Capitol and will add a Biblical warning this time: &#8220;Thou Shall Not Steal.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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ATLANTA (AP) - When an Atlanta pastor needed help reaching his goal of buying toys for 500 needy children this holiday season, he took his appeal to cyberspace.           ]]></description>
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BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) - A proposal that could allow a Louisiana church to build a nearly 200-foot cross has been advanced by a metropolitan planning commission.           ]]></description>
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RICHFIELD, Utah (AP) - Two Utah cities are refusing to display Nativity scenes on city property, even though they were donated by the Eagle Scouts.           ]]></description>
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STERLING, Va. (AP) - A mystery Santa Claus has delivered about 500 toys to a northern Virginia church.           ]]></description>
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Federal investigators say an accelerant&#8212;possibly gasoline&#8212;was poured around the exterior of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin&#8217;s church before fire heavily damaged the building.           ]]></description>
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A religious portrait has been stolen from the altar of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, California.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia&#8217;s Project on Lived Theology has received a $2.1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to keep it running through 2014.           ]]></description>
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NEW YORK (AP) - The three wise men who visited the baby Jesus in a New York church&#8217;s Nativity scene four decades ago have been joined over the years by hundreds of shepherds, peasants and other figures.           ]]></description>
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GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) - The Rev. Robert A. Schuller, who was recently ousted as preacher on the long-running Christian television program &#8220;Hour of Power,&#8220; has resigned as senior pastor of the Crystal Cathedral and plans to open his own ministry.           ]]></description>
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Governor Sarah Palin&#8217;s home church in Wasilla, Alaska, has been badly damaged in an arson fire, forcing the congregation to move its Sunday worship to a local school.           ]]></description>
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OCALA, Fla. (AP) - A Florida woman is apologizing after she was charged with scamming churches by telling them her child had cancer and needed money for a kidney transplant.           ]]></description>
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OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) - Parents charged with manslaughter in the death of their baby have asked an Oregon judge to dismiss the case based on their constitutional right to religious freedom.           ]]></description>
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina has been ordered to stop making and marketing license plates that feature the image of a cross and the words &#8220;I Believe.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A group that supports separation of church and state wants a federal judge to stop South Carolina from issuing Christian-themed license plates.           ]]></description>
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NEW YORK (AP) - Many churches, synagogues, governments and ordinary citizens are turning to technology to protect their holiday displays from pranks or prejudice.           ]]></description>
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LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) - A Texas pastor&#8217;s prayer for $1 million to pay for his congregation&#8217;s church building has been answered abundantly.           ]]></description>
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Police in Brazil say seven people are dead after a car plowed into pilgrims heading to a religious procession early Monday.           ]]></description>
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont man&#8217;s four-year battle for a religiously-themed vanity license plate is now being considered by an appellate court in New York.           ]]></description>
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CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - A Loudoun County man is in a standoff with his homeowner&#8217;s association over freedom of expression.           ]]></description>
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Hundreds of people have rallied at Washington&#8217;s state Capitol to protest a holiday display that disparages religion and says there is no God.           ]]></description>
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MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian Orthodox Church says its Patriarch Alexy II has died.           ]]></description>
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) - The leader of the Salvation Army corps in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, will lose his job if he goes ahead with plans to marry outside the organization.           ]]></description>
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union wants a New Jersey prisoner serving time for murder and robbery to be allowed to preach at services inside the prison.           ]]></description>
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans police are looking for the person or persons who broke into a church and stole a crucifix.           ]]></description>
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