Baptist Minister Is on a Mission ; Pastor's Goal is to Start 400 Hispanic Churches in United States
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By DEBRA DOMINGUEZ-LUND Journal Staff Writer  Bernie Moraga's mission is grand: to start 400 Hispanic Baptist churches in the United States within seven years.
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By SUE DOYLE\\ Staff Writer  Hundreds of worshippers poured into the Brookins Community African Methodist Episcopal Church for a Sunday service of toe- tapping music and lively prayers, kicking off a series of celebrations to mark Black History Month.
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A United Methodist minister who has changed gender since being chosen to lead a congregation in Baltimore will be reappointed there, church officials announced
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By Allen Essex, Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas  Sep. 5--HARLINGEN -- The chance to buy a ready-to-use church building in a choice location has drawn interest from more than a half dozen church leaders since a Valley Morning Star story "Death Of A Church" was published Aug. 20.
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Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who is running for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, is an ordained Baptist pastor who has made no secret of his socially conservative views.
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By JUDY HARRISON; OF THE NEWS STAFF  Allen C. Myers of Deer Isle has been called to serve as pastor of West Brooksville Congregational Church. Born in New Jersey, Myers, 63, grew up in South Bristol, Maine, and worked in the family seafood business.
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By Carla Hinton, The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 2--The Rev. Tony Lambert fretted on the airplane ride from Oklahoma City to Mississippi. He had just preached a sermon at First Southern Baptist Church of Del City, and he wondered how he came across to the congregation.
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This much is known: Mike Huckabee, a one-time Southern Baptist preacher, attracts fellow Christian evangelicals in droves.
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The US Hispanic community, galvanized by a drive to reform US immigration law and wooed by presidential candidates, has become a political player ahead of the 2008 vote.
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By THE NEW MEXICAN, PHOTO BY LUIS SNCHEZ SATURNO  Programs sponsored by area faith communities are scheduled in the coming months to address a variety of issues and are designed to fill the spiritual needs of a modern world.
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An evangelical minister was appointed on Wednesday to head a new initiative against violent gangs in Los Angeles, which has been dubbed the gang capital of America.
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By Sam Hodges, The Dallas Morning News  Jun. 6--The Baptist General Convention of Texas says it's stepping up the fight against clergy sexual misconduct, including posting on its Web site the names of convicted sex offenders known to have worked in Texas Baptist churches.
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A conservative Southern preacher gives his flock permission to lick, suck and insert things in the quest for stronger marriages and healthier societies. In Sex Drive Daily.
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By WILLIAM TAYLOR  Historically, Christians have looked at Africa, Asia and South America as mission fields.  The Rev. Garrett Dawson, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge, sees the churches on those continents as something else: examples for U.S. churches to follow.
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By TOM HEINEN  Town of Brookfield  Elmbrook Church, one of the region's first megachurches, is launching a year's celebration of its 50th anniversary with jubilee events and a cutting-edge Web site that could be a national model for linking people to ministries and faith messages.
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One Sunday in the summer of 2003, the Rev. Ake Green, a Pentecostal pastor, stepped into the pulpit of his small church in the southern Swedish village of Borgholm. There, the 63-year-old clergyman delivered a sermon denouncing homosexuality as "a deep cancerous tumor in the entire society" and condemning Sweden's plan to allow gays to form legally recognized partnerships.
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A group focused on Hispanic health issues on Monday was announcing an effort to send more than a million text messages to cell phones to remind and encourage people to vote in the presidential preference contests.