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Sumter Co. substitute teacher elected to lead SC Baptist group
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Human cloning breakthrough prompts religious objections
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Survey: Canadians turning away from organized religion
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Christian leaders, meeting in Washington, seek to overcome polarization
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Franklin Graham calls IRS probe of ministry finances ‘un-American’
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Commentary: Embrace the good, bad of church histories
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Voices of Faith: Does God shine a light on some more than others?
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More than 450 cemeteries checker Richland County; grant to identify those sites
A preliminary survey underwritten by Richland County has identified more than 450 cemeteries, most of them long-abandoned plots where family members were laid to rest together.
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Some SC tribal members fighting for right to use eagle feathers
Some members of state-recognized Indian tribes say they will push for the freedom to use eagle feathers during Native American rituals in hopes of altering a federal decision allowing only federally-recognized tribes access to the feathers and animal...
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Hospital doctor delivers infusion of hope to Jehovah's Witness
On the day the Boston Marathon bombing transfixed the world, Mark Watkins of suburban Kansas City, Mo., lay face to face with a crisis of life, death and faith of his own.
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Analysis: Will the Kermit Gosnell verdict change the abortion debate?
Even before rogue abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted in Philadelphia May 13 of delivering and then killing late-term infants, abortion opponents were convinced they had a case that could reshape an abortion debate that has remained static over the years.
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Outspoken NC Baptist editor and minister R.G. Puckett dies at 80
R.G. “Gene” Puckett, a minister who found he could have a greater influence through the press than from the pulpit and who presided over the North Carolina Baptists’ newspaper when the denomination was undergoing one of its greatest periods of upheaval, has died.
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After rebuke by archbishop, Cardinal Mahony takes higher profile
When Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez stripped his predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahony, of public duties for mishandling clergy sex abuse cases, a church spokesman said the retired prelate's life would remain largely the same with one exception: confirmations.
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Church-based scouting alternatives attract interest
They have pledges. They have merit badges. And they may go camping.
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Burial of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev angers Virginia Muslims
Officials and local residents of a rural Virginia county say they’re surprised and angered that the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried in a local cemetery.
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Colombia celebrates its first Catholic saint
In her lifetime, Laura Montoya's stubborn determination to help Colombia's indigenous people brought the reproach of society, the political elite and the church, which viewed her work with suspicion and accused her of being unstable.
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Faith events in and around Columbia, May 11-12 and beyond
Email photographs from your Midlands faith events – pastor anniversaries, programs and services and community outreach – to dkujawa@thestate.com. We will post them at thestate.com/religion.
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Pope urges steps toward `full unity' with Coptic Orthodox Church
The Catholic and Coptic Orthodox churches are in a position to settle their historical rifts, Pope Francis said Friday as he welcomed his Coptic counterpart, Tawadros II.
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Sumter Christian School take hands-on approach to helping the hungry
Roughly 200 students and teachers at Sumter Christian School gathered in the school gym Wednesday to help assemble packets that will provide more than 10,000 meals to hungry children in Haiti.


