Russian Orthodox Church's gay wedding:

• Same-sex marriage chapel demolished | The Chapel of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God was apparently knocked down after local churchmen decided it had been defiled (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Russian church defrocks priest who married gays | Denis Gogolev and Mikhail Morozov have said they paid Father Vladimir Enert $490 to marry them last month in church—an act the Russian Orthodox Church branded blasphemous (Reuters)
  
  

Church shooting during communion:

• Church readies for funerals, mourns in wake of slayings (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Shaken church has no answers | Fellow churchgoers try to find reasoning behind woman's deadly shooting spree (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Three fatally shot at church | Woman kills minister, then mother, then self (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Pastor and 2 others are killed in shooting at Atlanta church | Woman and her mother were preparing the communion table in the chapel of Turner Monumental A.M.E. Church when Ms. Wilson pulled out a .44 caliber pistol and shot the minister, the Rev. Johnny Clyde Reynolds, at the altar (The New York Times)
  
  

Crime:

• Church to negotiate in Colombia abduction | The move came a day after church officials held seven hours of talks with two imprisoned leaders of the National Liberation Army (Associated Press)
  
  
• Priest charged with gun possession and harassment | A man arrested on charges that he made harassing telephone calls to a Catholic high school in Brooklyn turned out to be a Roman Catholic priest whose Queens apartment contained guns, pornographic magazines, Nazi memorabilia and thousands of dollars he said he stole from a church, law enforcement officials said yesterday (The New York Times)
  
  
• Deacon convicted of having sex with girl | He met 13-year-old through Lakeport church (Concord Monitor, N.H.)