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Church life:

• Fired pastors 'no longer a good fit' | Irreconcilable differences between the ruling elders of Covenant Presbyterian Church and its pastor and assistant pastor led to their removal last month, the chief spokesman for the governing body of regional Presbyterian churches said Thursday (Scranton (Pa.) Times Tribune)
  
  
• Judge cautions feuding congregants | Church members warned that they could wind up in jail on contempt of court charges if they "speak out of turn" at service. (The Birmingham News)

Crime:

• Reverend Owusu Bempah refutes allegations | General Overseer of the Endtime Ministries International, a charismatic church, has refuted an allegation that he was part of a car stealing syndicate (Ghana News Agency)
  
  
• Italian punched priest so he could deliver Mass | Officers managed to lift him from the pulpit and took him to the local police station (Ananova)

Other stories of interest:

• Aiming that arrow | Valentine's Day gets religion (Dave Shiflett, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• When presidents talk of God | Can we please stop pretending that Bush's regular invocations of the Almighty make him some sort of strange religious fanatic? (E. J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post)
  
  
• Africans search for miracle AIDS cures | Each week T.B. Joshua "cures" several AIDS sufferers at his services (Reuters)

• Thomas Nelson posts higher profit, to cut 30 jobs in realignment (Nashville Business Journal)

• God bless Ted Turner | You might be surprised who bankrolled Gods & Generals, a film that centers on the role personal faith played in the Civil War. (Rod Dreher, National Review Online)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Clergy pay, N.T. Wright's new position, Methodist belt-tightening, and other stories (Associated Press)

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