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• Church pastor, gospel music legend Marvin Winans assaulted, carjacked at Detroit gas station
• Vatican tosses out Canada ex-bishop over child porn
• Exclusive: Order knew for months about priest scandal: Vatican official
• Teacher fired over pregnancy can sue religious school
• Roman Catholic bishop convicted of child pornography stripped of clerical duties
• Exclusive: Order knew for months about priest scandal: Vatican official
• Presbyterian churches ignore SF minister's censure

Church pastor, gospel music legend Marvin Winans assaulted, carjacked at Detroit gas station Posted: DETROIT - Popular pastor and gospel singer Marvin Winans has been assaulted and carjacked at a Detroit gas station.

Vatican tosses out Canada ex-bishop over child porn Posted: A former Catholic bishop convicted of importing child pornography -- including some laced with religious imagery -- into Canada has been stripped of his religious duties, the church said Wednesday.

Exclusive: Order knew for months about priest scandal: Vatican official Posted: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Leaders of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ religious order knew that their most famous priest had fathered a child for many months before they acknowledged it this week, a top Vatican official told Reuters on Wednesday. The once influential religious order, still in crisis following revelations that its founder was a sexual abuser with two secret families, suffered another major blow on Tuesday when American Father Thomas Williams admitted to having fathered a child with a woman in Rome. ...

Teacher fired over pregnancy can sue religious school Posted: (Reuters) - An appeals court on Wednesday revived a Florida teacher's lawsuit against a Christian school that fired her after she admitted to conceiving a child before her marriage. Overturning a lower court ruling in the school's favor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit found that Jarretta Hamilton was entitled to a trial on her claims of pregnancy discrimination by the Southland Christian School in St. Cloud, Florida. The fourth-grade teacher informed administrators in April 2009 that she was pregnant and needed to take maternity leave. ...

Roman Catholic bishop convicted of child pornography stripped of clerical duties Posted: ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A Roman Catholic bishop who was convicted of importing child pornography into Canada has been stripped of his clerical duties.

Exclusive: Order knew for months about priest scandal: Vatican official Posted: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Leaders of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ religious order knew that their most famous priest had fathered a child for many months before they acknowledged it this week, a top Vatican official told Reuters on Wednesday. The once influential religious order, still in crisis following revelations that its founder was a sexual abuser with two secret families, suffered another major blow on Tuesday when American Father Thomas Williams admitted to having fathered a child with a woman in Rome. ...

Presbyterian churches ignore SF minister's censure Posted: Representatives of dozens of West Coast Presbyterian churches are defying their denomination's highest court by refusing to censure a retired minister who married same-sex couples in 2008.

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