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Billy Graham isn't finished preaching yet
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Scammers bedevil religious leaders with fake Facebook pages
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A posthumous fall from grace
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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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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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What is Hinduism?
Hinduism is the third-largest organized religion in the world, with almost a billion followers. Most Hindus live in India, and there is a growing population in the United States. Because Hindu temples do not require membership, there is no official...
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RELIGION
Franklin Graham calls IRS probe of ministry finances ‘un-American’
Evangelist Franklin Graham blasted the Internal Revenue Service probe of conservative nonprofit groups as “un-American,” saying both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the relief group Samaritan’s Purse were audited by the IRS.
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RELIGION
Commentary: Embrace the good, bad of church histories
During my years as a reporter, I’ve had the opportunity to cover the anniversaries or special events of several churches. In many cases, the church staff supplied me with a brief history of the church: when it began, charter members, high attendance, major milestones, past clergy and other...
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RELIGION
Voices of Faith: Does God shine a light on some more than others?
VOICES OF FAITH: DOES GOD SHINE A LIGHT ON SOME MORE THAN OTHERS?
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RELIGION
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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LOCAL NEWS
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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RELIGION
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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RELIGION
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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RELIGION
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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RELIGION
Church-based scouting alternatives attract interest
They have pledges. They have merit badges. And they may go camping.
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RELIGION
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.


