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• Pa. Methodist minister convicted of breaking church law over son's same-sex marriage.
• Cameroon's Catholic clergy stay on despite kidnap fears
• U.S. pastor faces church trial for performing son's gay wedding
• Better forecasts, church services saved lives
• Albuquerque hotel, EEOC settle religious bias case
• Pa. pastor stands church trial over gay marriage
• Vatican tasks outside firm EY to check finances
• US pastor faced church trial for performing son's same-sex marriage

Pa. Methodist minister convicted of breaking church law over son's same-sex marriage. Posted: 18 Nov 2013 04:20 PM PST Pa. Methodist minister convicted of breaking church law over son's same-sex marriage.

Cameroon's Catholic clergy stay on despite kidnap fears Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:32 PM PST Nguetchewe (Cameroon) (AFP) - Father Georges Vandenbeusch's glasses are still lying abandoned on his desk, a reminder of his sudden kidnapping three days ago near Cameroon's border with Nigeria by Islamist group Boko Haram. "He was never without them," said Sister Francoise, a nun who worked with Vandenbeusch in the Nguetchewe parish, about 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the Nigerian border. Despite the kidnapping, claimed by banned Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Sister Francoise said she did not want to leave her parishioners.

U.S. pastor faces church trial for performing son's gay wedding Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:31 PM PST By Dave Warner SPRING CITY, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A pastor on trial by Methodist church officials for officiating at his son's same-sex marriage said on Monday he had been conflicted about performing the 2007 ceremony, but chose to violate his denomination's teachings out of love for his child. Rev. Frank Schaefer, pastor of the Zion United Methodist church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, testified that he loved both the church and his son. "I did not want to make this a protest about the doctrine of the church," Schaefer said at the opening of the trial, held at a church camp near Spring City, Pennsylvania. But it is at least the eighth trial in the past 20 years of a member of the clergy accused of violating church law by performing a same-sex marriage or by acknowledging being gay, the blog report said.

Better forecasts, church services saved lives Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:17 PM PST WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) — When a cluster of violent thunderstorms began marching across the Midwest, forecasters were able to draw a bright line across a map showing where the worst of the weather would go.

Albuquerque hotel, EEOC settle religious bias case Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:11 AM PST A federal civil rights agency and an Albuquerque hotel have settled the agency's religious discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a housekeeper who was fired when she refused to not wear her head scarf. ...

Pa. pastor stands church trial over gay marriage Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:01 AM PST SPRING CITY, Pa. (AP) — A United Methodist minister who officiated at his son's same-sex wedding has pleaded not guilty to charges that he broke his pastoral vows.

Vatican tasks outside firm EY to check finances Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:25 AM PST The Vatican has hired another international consulting firm to review its finances as Pope Francis' economic reforms push up a gear. The Vatican said Monday that EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young, will ...

US pastor faced church trial for performing son's same-sex marriage Posted: 17 Nov 2013 11:12 PM PST A U.S. pastor who officiated at his son's same-sex marriage faces a church trial Monday.

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