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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.)
  
  
• Hammond Evangelical Catholic priest defrocked | Bishop said man's criminal past and recent arrest influenced his decision (The Times, northwest Indiana)
  
  
• 'Perverted' cop jailed for conning Christians | James Marriner had convinced the group they had to cut off their pubic hair, and take photos of themselves naked on the pretext such actions were mandatory before becoming police informants to smash a pedophile ring (AAP)
  
  
• Indiana priest with Florida criminal record stripped of collar | Rev. Russell Leaming deposited a check into his personal account last month instead of one for the Independent Evangelical Catholic Church, which was the intended payee, said Bishop James Wilkowski (Associated Press)
  
  
• Armed visitor threatens Cathedral, priest | No one injured; Marietta man to be arraigned today in church arson (Savannah Morning News, Ga.)
  
  
• Also: Armed man arrested at Ga. cathedral | Stuart Vincent Smith set fire to the pulpit and bishop's chair in a historic Roman Catholic cathedral (Associated Press)
  
  
• Witness: Priest boasted drinking prowess | Roman Catholic priest accused in the alcohol-related death of a college football player had dozens of bottles of liquor on hand and boasted he could match his student guests drink for drink, a teammate testified (Associated Press)
  
  

Life ethics:

• Group asks World Court to rule out human cloning | A group of scientists, doctors and legal experts asked the United Nations on Wednesday to seek an advisory opinion from the World Court declaring human cloning to be a "crime against humanity." (Reuters)
  
  
• Her accidental legacy | The death of a California teenager who took RU-486 has reignited the controversy over the abortion pill (Newsweek)
  
  

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