Religion
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Interfaith Thanksgiving celebration promotes love, acceptance in Buffalo GroveNov 18, 2018 12:00 am - Choosing love and peace over hatred and bigotry was at the center of an interfaith Thanksgiving celebration Sunday night that brought together Christian and Jewish congr...
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Bishop reported missing amid Beijing-Vatican reconciliation
Nov 16, 2018 6:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - A bishop who has resisted demands to join China's Communist Party-controlled church body has been taken into custody, a Catholic news service reported, de...
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Wheaton College summit addresses sexual violenceNov 15, 2018 10:00 pm - Studies have shown that up to 81 percent of women and 43 percent of men have experienced some form of sexual harassment - either verbal or physical - at some point in th...
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Italy's bishops respond to long-ignored clergy sex abuse
Nov 15, 2018 6:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Italy's Catholic bishops are declaring a new era of transparency and truth about clergy sex abuse, as awareness of the scandal that has convulsed muc...
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Castle on the square: Sand to star in Vatican Nativity scene
Nov 14, 2018 6:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Sand castles are coming to the Vatican. The Vatican said Wednesday its Nativity scene this year will be built from sand and sculpted by an internatio...
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Italian priest who doubted Francis excommunicated for heresy
Nov 14, 2018 6:00 am - ROME (AP) - An Italian Catholic priest who considers Pope Francis an antipope and claims to have supernatural communications with angels, saints and the Madonna has been...
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Lutheran churches in the suburbs mobilize to help hurricane victims in FloridaNov 14, 2018 5:00 am - The golden retriever comfort dogs trained by volunteers with Lutheran Church Charities in Northbrook are on the road again. This time they're headed to Panama City in F...
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Bartlett church members rings bells for armistice remembranceNov 13, 2018 10:00 pm - Sunday, Nov. 11, marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I for our country and its allies. In 1918, at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, Bartlett's Immanuel Evangelical ...
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Give thanks at interfaith service SundayNov 13, 2018 10:00 pm - Celebrate "Abundant Blessings" at the Greater Elgin Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 340 Grand Blvd., E...
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Temple Chai to install new senior rabbiNov 13, 2018 10:00 pm - Temple Chai, the Reform Jewish congregation in Long Grove, will formally install and honor its new Senior Rabbi Ilana G. Baden with a weekend of engaging events. The ce...