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Former D.C. Church Official Sentenced For Embezzling Nearly $1 Million

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBS Washington/AP) — The former chief financial officer of a historic church in Washington has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for embezzling $850,000 from the...

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Religious Groups Outraged Over White House Birth Control Mandate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s decision requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control was bound to cause an uproar among Roman Catholics and members of other faiths, no...

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Archdiocese Apologizes To Lesbian Denied Communion At Mother’s Funeral

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has apologized to a woman who was denied Holy Communion at her mother’s funeral Mass because she is a lesbian. Barbara Johnson and...

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Gotta Have Faith: Poll Finds Nearly 70 Percent Of Americans Are Religious

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — A new Gallup poll shows that nearly 70 percent of Americans find religion plays an important role in their lives. The poll finds that 40 percent classify themselves as very...

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New Zealand Priest Claims That Jesus Was ‘Probably’ Gay

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — A New Zealand Anglican priest claims that Jesus was “probably” gay. Paul Oestreicher, a chaplain at the University of Sussex, wrote in an op-ed piece for The Guardian about the...

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Study: Church-Friendly Teens Fare Better In Education

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Church-friendly American teens are far more likely to graduate high school and succeed in education than their religiously unaffiliated peers. Religiously-affiliated youth are 40...

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National Cathedral Rings Bells to Cheer Gay Marriage

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The National Cathedral is pealing its church bells, along with some other Washington churches, to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decisions on gay marriage. Cathedral spokesman...

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Vandalized Churches in D.C. Hold Sunday Services

WASHINGTON — The Washington National Cathedral and another church have opened their doors to parishioners after being vandalized with green paint. The cathedral and the Luther Place Memorial Church...

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Funeral Set for Ocean City Pastor Killed in Fire

OCEAN CITY, Md. — A funeral service has been scheduled for an Ocean City pastor who died in a fire at his church. The Rev. David Dingwall died Tuesday after a fire broke out at Saint-Paul’s-By-Sea...

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Poll: American Trust In Clergy Members Hits New Low

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) – A record number of people throughout the United States have expressed a lack of trust in clergy members, according to a new poll. When asked by researchers at Gallup to rate the...

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Church Signs Roll the Dice Getting Hip with Quips

ST. LOUIS — Pastor Mike Butzberger insists he only had holiday spirit in mind when his Florida church’s marquee read: “Christmas — Easier to spell than Hanukkah.” But after a passer-by told him she...

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‘God Keeps Me High': Easter on 4/20, Pot Holy Day

LOS ANGELES — Social media has been buzzing for weeks with jokes about how, this year, Easter Sunday shares the calendar with the pot-lover’s highest holiday: April 20, or 420 in stoner lingo....

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First Lady: We Use Sundays For Naps If We’re Not Going To Church

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — First Lady Michelle Obama says the family tries to use Sundays for downtime if they aren’t going to church. Speaking to “Live with Kelly & Michael” Monday during the White...

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Church Youth Leader Convicted of Sex Abuse

ROCKVILLE, Md. — A Las Vegas man has been convicted of sexually abusing boys while he was a youth leader at a church in Maryland in the 1980s. Fifty-six-year-old Nathaniel Morales was convicted...

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Poll: Americans Very Likely To Inflate Their Amount Of Religious Participation

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Americans from all subgroups are highly likely to significantly inflate their amount of religious participation – if they attend religious services at all. The “I Know What You...

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5 Tips For Budget Travel To Italy

Photo Courtesy of Simon & Schuster Dianne Hales is the author of MONA LISA: A Life Discovered, which will be published by Simon & Schuster on August 5. She is a prize-winning, widely published...

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Baltimore Church Damaged in 3-Alarm Fire

BALTIMORE — Firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze at a northeast Baltimore church. The fire at the All Saints Evangelical Lutheran Church was reported about 3 p.m. Thursday. Firefighters say the...

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Church Fires Pregnant, Unwed Mother

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (CBSDC) – Apryl Kellam said she was fired from the church daycare because she was in violation of church policy. “It hurts because I’ve grown up in a Christian home and Christian...

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Obama Family Worships At Historic Baptist Church In Virginia

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama and his family attended Easter service at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, whose history dates back almost 200 years to when...

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Korean-American Church Wins Appeal in Construction Dispute

BALTIMORE — A Korean-American church based in Silver Spring has won an appeal in its disputed plan for an 800-seat worship center in rural Frederick County. The Court of Special Appeals, Maryland’s...

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