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Yahoo LifeChurch makes statement with Black Lives Matter-themed nativity scene: 'It was a natural choice'
Claremont United Methodist Church made headlines in the past for nativity scenes depicting children in cages and the Holy Family experiencing homelessness.
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Election Day meals are a time-honored tradition. Here’s how they’re adapting to the pandemic
Churches and social clubs are adapting their Election Day traditions to suit COVID-19 protocols.
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Infectious disease expert and seminary student warns about resuming religious services too soon: 'Church is not a building'
A new report from the CDC highlights a "high COVID-19 attack rate" at an Arkansas church. Here's what you need to know about religious gatherings.
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Church leader fired for secretly photographing woman inside H&M dressing room
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called Utah resident Steven Murdock's alleged crime "unacceptable."
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Residents slam 'shameful' church for refusing to hold dying man's funeral because of gay son
Jessie Goodman says Lee's Chapel Baptist Church will not hold a funeral service for his dying father.
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Pastor defends 'America: Love or leave it' sign after congregation stages walkout
Pastor E. W. Lucas is defending the sign outside Friendship Baptist Church in Appomattox, Virginia, which read, "America: Love or leave it," but on Sunday, his congregation staged a walkout during his service.
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Church changes 'no animals' policy after facing criticism for turning away blind man with service dog
A man wearing a church badge took her brother aside and told him that dogs aren’t allowed on the premises, saying “churches have the right to refuse service dogs.”
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Girl, 19, gets body-shamed at church: 'Fat girls don't wear shorts'
A 19-year-old girl tweeted about getting body-shamed at church, attracting the attention of body-positive activist Jameela Jamil.
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Texas church furious after city removes its 'Jesus welcomes you' sign: 'We're treating it like a hate crime'
City officials removed a controversial road sign from the entrance of a small Texas town early Monday morning, and now the church responsible for the sign has vowed to fight back against the decision.
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Church defends homophobic sign: LGBTQ community is ‘headed for destruction’
Second Baptist Church in Palermo, Maine is defending its anti-LGBTQ sign. Longtime resident Stan York, a gay married man, says he's "sad" his children have to be exposed to homophobia.
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Florida church throws 'Make America Straight Again' event during Gay Pride Week
The Lake County Sheriff's Department declined to provide private security for the event reportedly because, "It looks like a hate group."
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Teen fired from Christian camp counselor job for being gay: ‘I’m heartbroken’
While Jace Taylor’s immediate family welcomed the gay teen with open arms, it was his “second family” that betrayed him, he says.
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Cancer patient, 10, fulfills last wish to attend church service: 'He was just all smiles'
A 10-year-old boy in Arkansas was recently released from a nearly 14-month hospital stay for a rare form of leukemia. But before heading home for hospice care, he wanted to attend church.
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Church votes to ban couple's same-sex wedding ceremony: 'It felt like a rejection'
"That’s not what church is about," Jesus Martell Gonzalez says of the Iowa institution's decision to not officiate his same-sex marriage.
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Pastor warns local newspaper during a sermon: 'I cut people. I got a knife right in that pocketbook.'
The pastor referenced the South Carolina's newspaper's coverage of Relentless pastor John Gray's lavish spending.
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'Odds were against us, God was not': Bibles, crosses survive church fire
The Coal City Fire Department responded to a call from the Freedom Ministries Church in Grandview on early Sunday morning, where they found the church engulfed in flames.
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'Heaven has strict immigration laws, hell has open borders': Community riled up by church marquee message
The sign outside Apostolic Faith Church read, "Heaven has strict immigration laws, Hell has open borders."
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Christian woman awarded $21.5 million after lawsuit claims she was fired for skipping Sunday shifts to go to church
A Christian missionary who worked as a hotel dishwasher for a decade says her religious rights were violated when her manager demanded that she work on Sundays.
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Community protests anti-LGBTQ church sign that reads 'Bruce Jenner is still a man'
Members of the community are protesting Trinity Bible Presbyterian Church to make sure that people who feel attacked by the message know they have allies.
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Church surprises man with donations so he can get his 2 front teeth for Christmas
"God cares," Evans Kamuru said, "even about the little details of our lives that sometimes you don't think about."
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Grieving parents say priest called their son 'a sinner' at his funeral
Jeff Hullibarger, the father of Maison, who took his own life, said about the homily delivered at Maison's funeral, “It made the worst day of our lives more worse."
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Church reimagines Nativity scene featuring caged baby Jesus
Backlash against a Dedham, Mass., church's controversial Nativity scene last year didn't stop it from making another political statement this year.
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Church group hands out $12,000 to congregation members to pay it forward: 'This money isn't from me, it's from God'
CJ Holmes, the group’s leader, hopes to make this an annual Thanksgiving effort. “It’s had a pretty big impact just in our congregation,” he told us.
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Man wearing 'I [heart] Jesus' hat breaks into church to rip Bibles, defaces walls with spray paint
At a church in Chester, Va., a white male in his late 20s, about 6 feet tall with dark hair and a full beard — allegedly ripped pages from Bibles, smashed a glass window, and spray-painted the walls.
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Iowa pastor rigs church with a bulletproof pulpit, a magnetic gun mount, and medical trauma bags
The pastor has a spot in his pulpit where he can put his gun.
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Painting of Jesus remains untouched as 150-year-old church burns down
A 150-year-old church in Massachusetts burned down, but a painting of Jesus inside was miraculously unscathed.