Natick vigil thwarted: Sacred Heart church closes despite pleas ...
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Four hours after Sacred Heart Church celebrated its last Mass yesterday, a dozen parishioners attempting to hold a vigil were asked to leave as police stood guard
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Â· Dozens turned down by local Catholic primaries Â· Councillor warns of mini apartheid in seaside town
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A church tower was leaning at a precarious angle after being destabilized by building work, prompting the evacuation of dozens of people from neighboring buildings, authorities said.
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By April Bethea, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 17--Protestors this morning apparently stayed away from a Gastonia church that had been publicly criticized recently for a blackface performance.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Midtown Infectious Disease Clinic closed its doors Tuesday evening when a funding promise fell through, KMBC&#39;s Kelly Eckerman reported.
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By John Castellucci; Journal Staff Writer  An ordinance to acquire the historical structure to protect it from a developer fails to gain passage.
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A third of the D.C. Council crossed the Anacostia River yesterday and toured the hospital where they and their colleagues are being asked to spend $79 million. What they saw and heard from doctors there is that Greater Southeast Community Hospital remains at risk of collapse.
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Episcopal delegates asked church leaders Wednesday to &quot;exercise restraint&quot; when considering openly gay candidates for bishop, a vote that ended days of painful debate but fell far short of demands to preserve Anglican unity by banning gay bishops.
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POLICE frogmen were searching the Thames today for a woman who went missing after a church service.   Maria Pereira has not been seen since the service at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on Sunday December 3.  (c) 2006 Evening Mail; Birmingham (UK).
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LOS ANGELES -- Activists who fought hard to bring a hospital to south-central Los Angeles after the 1965 Watts riots are in mourning since the announcement that their beloved but deeply troubled hospital failed a crucial federal inspection and will lose more than half its funding.
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A protest vigil at a parish slated for closure by the Boston Archdiocese ended Sunday when police sealed off the 114-year-old church following its final Mass and ordered parishioners to leave.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A national political conference&#39;s bid to end the fighting in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Najaf appeared to have failed Tuesday.
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DALHOUSIE, NB - Demonstrators closed the three main roads into a town in northeastern New Brunswick Wednesday morning to protest against the province&#39;s plan to cut beds in the local hospital.
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DALHOUSIE, N.B. (CP) - Five of six roadblocks put up by protesters upset over the closure of local hospital beds in northern New Brunswick were taken down Wednesday.
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The pastor at Anchorage First Free Methodist Church was mystified. Why was the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals chastising him? No animals are harmed in the church's holiday nativity display. In fact, animals aren't used at all.
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Port Hueneme in Ventura County was closed off Monday afternoon while authorities investigated a possible terrorist threat on a cargo ship, a port official said.
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The Supreme Court has refused to intervene on behalf of a handful of religious extremists whose feelings were hurt by gay marriage in Massachusetts... The US Supreme Court has rejected without comment an appeal