Layoffs hit megachurch after sex scandal
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The megachurch founded by the Rev. Ted Haggard, who was fired over drug and sex allegations, has laid off 44 people amid falling income following the scandal.
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LOS ANGELES - The founder of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network has sought repeatedly to prevent a former male employee from going public with allegations of a sexual encounter between them eight years ago, a newspaper reported Sunday.    Paul Crouch, 70, president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, reached a $425,000 settlement in 1998 with the former worker who threatened to sue over claims he had been unjustly fired from the network, the Los Angeles Times said...
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The Catholic Church in Los Angeles reportedly agrees to pay $660m to hundreds of alleged sex abuse victims.
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Business & money: Around 1,000 jobs slashed across Co-operative Group's financial arm, with Manchester-based staff expected to be badly hit.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. 11 -- After killing two young people at a missionary training center in a Denver suburb on Saturday night, but before taking the lives of two more at a megachurch on the outskirts of Colorado Springs the following afternoon, Matthew Murray posted a screed on an Internet forum.
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An investigation starts into the collapse of seating at a religious festival that injured more than a dozen people.
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The United Methodist Church yesterday defrocked a lesbian for violating the denomination&#39;s ban on actively homosexual clergy â-he first such decision by the church in 17 years.
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LOS ANGELES -- Two Episcopal parishes in Southern California announced yesterday that they had broken with the national church over the issue of homosexuality, placing themselves under the jurisdiction of a conservative Anglican bishop from Africa.
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The leader of a megachurch where a gunman opened fire a last week said Sunday that the congregation's trials were nothing more than tests
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RSA has been shedding thousands of jobs as part of a major restructuring intended to refocus on general insurance. The firm has also sold its life business and other assets to strengthen its finances.
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The Roman Catholic Church in California has reached a deal with nearly one hundred people who say they were abused by priests and other church employees.
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A lesbian Methodist minister was defrocked on Thursday after being found guilty by an ecclesiastical court of violating a church law that bars its clergy from being practicing homosexuals.
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A priest who resigned from a church in an affluent Connecticut community misspent up to $1.4 million in parishioner donations to lead a life of luxury with another man, according to a church-directed investigation.
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&quot;All across Britain, derelict churches are being bought up by corporate chains and turned into superpubs with space for hundreds of drinkers.
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By Sue Nowicki, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Sep. 9--The First Congregational Church of Ripon has hired a new pastor to replace the one who sold the church building and parsonage without the congregation's knowledge.   The Rev.
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JERUSALEM -- Police commandos stormed a Jerusalem church compound and arrested nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu yesterday, drawing harsh condemnation from the Anglican Church to which he belongs.
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An influx of immigrants and refugees to Clarkston, Ga., sparked a battle within one church that led it to change not just its name but its mission.