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06/28/2009

Louisville seminary president to retire in 2010
The Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary will soon be looking for a new president after current president announced his retirement.

06/23/2009

Southern Baptist Convention opens in Kentucky
Southern Baptists are facing a membership decline that could shrink the nation's largest Protestant denomination by nearly half in 40 years, its convention president said Tuesday.

06/13/2009

Check out this week's The 411 Religion
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06/04/2009

Obama pleads for a new beginning with U.S. and Muslim relations
President Obama's speech in Egypt that has the world, and many in Louisville’s Muslim community talking.

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06/03/2009

Pastor encouraging members to bring guns to church
Do guns have a place in church? You might be surprised at some peoples’ answer. In fact a Valley Station church is asking members to bring their guns to a church event.

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• Do you think guns have a place in church?

05/15/2009

Judge denies parent's right to treat son with alternative medicine
A Minnesota judge has ruled that a 13-year-old cancer patient whose parents want to treat him with “alternative medicine” must seek conventional medical treatment for their son.

05/10/2009

Local church welcomes dogs at services
There's something a little different about Unity Church in Middletown. It's for the dogs—literally. All shapes and sizes are welcome, from Boston terriers to toy dogs.

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05/09/2009

Catholic/Political divide heats up as Notre Dame prepares for Obama speech May 17
Notre Dame is not backing down and has even agreed to pay some of the police bill for Obama's visit. But a campaign by outraged Roman Catholics to keep President Barack Obama from delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame shows that the gulf between the church and backers of abortion rights remains deep.

05/04/2009

Part 2: Some Christian leaders concerned about decline in Christianity
Churches have been the spiritual and social center of American life for centuries. But the belt of religion has been tightened. The number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has doubled since 1990 and is now at 15%.

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• Part One: Some Christian leaders concerned about decline in Christianity

Some Christian leaders concerned about decline in Christianity
A recent American Religious Identification Survey shows that Americans who identify themselves as Christians fell by 10% in the last twenty years.

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• Part 2 of story

04/30/2009

Diners report seeing Virgin Mary in food griddle
The hottest thing on the griddle at the Las Palmas restaurant these days isn’t the food—it’s the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that a cook says she saw on the griddle.

04/24/2009

Southern Baptist membership, baptisms decline
The number of people baptized in Southern Baptist churches fell for the fourth straight year in 2008 to the denomination's lowest level since 1987, and membership dipped slightly as well.

04/12/2009

Many turn to faith during uncertain economic times
As the economy has proved unstable, many people are hoping their faith will be their salvation. That was the case at Southeast Christian Church, which opened the new campus in Jeffersonville on Easter Sunday to over three thousand people.

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03/16/2009

Girls make faithful promise at local church’s Purity Ball
It's an intimate commitment, a promise to stay true and virtuous. WHAS11's Adrianna Hopkins takes you inside this one of a kind ball that some call controversial.

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03/15/2009

Are Americans becoming less religious?
More people are saying they have “no religion” nowadays—that’s what a recently released study on American religion found. But the survey may not tell the whole story.

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03/09/2009

Tragedy in Illinois prompts some local churches to increase security
At Southeast Christian and Highview Baptist Church, the message is salvation, but safety is priority.

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02/08/2009

Southeast Christian to begin work on new Oldham County location
Renovations are set to begin this spring on a former grocery store that will become the new church.

01/22/2009

Louisville archdiocese freezing employee salaries
About 3,000 employees of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville will have their wages frozen in an effort to save money and minimize tuition increases at its schools, church officials said Wednesday.

01/20/2009

Many turning to prayer in these tough economic times
With the state of the economy some people find it’s easier to turn to something you can’t see rather than dwell over the things you don’t have.

01/18/2009

Fire forces local church to move Sunday service
Sunday morning, parishioners from the Portland Avenue Presbyterian Church gathered for worship at another church, after fire ravaged their church building on Friday.

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Previous Coverage:
• Historic church on Portland Avenue destroyed by fire

12/26/2008

Deer gets lost; visits cathedral
The deer who ended up at the downtown Cathedral of the Assumption during Christmas morning mass has now died.

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12/17/2008

Ky. Baptist seminary cuts budget, expects layoffs
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is cutting millions from its budget, freezing hiring and postponing capital projects.

12/07/2008

Highland Baptist Church tradition remembers this year's murder victims
It’s a Highland Baptist Church tradition, and its goal is promote peace. When you drive by the church, you will notice more than 60 crosses adorning the lawn. Each one represents a murder victim from this year.

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12/02/2008

Athiests take on Kentucky's Department of Homeland Security
A group of atheists wants God removed from Kentucky’s homeland security detail.

Local churches say tough economy has not crippled collections
There’s not a church in Louisville that hasn’t been watching the economy and wondering how badly it will hit their congregations and their collections. But the information we received from some area churches was both surprising and encouraging.

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11/23/2008

Local church goes back in time to celebrate heritage
Although it is the year 2008, you wouldn’t have known on Sunday inside Chapel Hill United Church of Christ. Every year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, this church celebrates its heritage.

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11/11/2008

Texas Preacher to congregation: Have sex every day
God may have rested on the seventh day, but the Rev. Ed Young wants married couples to have sex all week long.

11/09/2008

Church congregation forms inside Ky. prison walls
A religious congregation has for the first time formed inside the walls of a Kentucky prison, complete with a pastor, board and budget.

09/08/2008

Group dangles $50K for Jews who move to Ala. town
“A lot of the older people have died, and not many of the younger ones have stayed,” said Thelma Nomberg, a member of the Dothan temple who grew up in nearby Ozark, where she was the only Jewish student in public school in the 1940s. “We are dying.”

09/05/2008

Religious events for this week
If you have a religious function that's open to the community send it to: sherlene.shanklin@whas11.com

08/24/2008

Small Kentucky churches face large vacancies in pulpit
Kentucky churches need what would seem an absolute requirement for houses of worship: pastors.

08/20/2008

Bill Gaither coming to Louisville
2008 National Quartet Convention

08/19/2008

Local Bible college about to take its own exodus
A local bible college needs a new location after Norfolk Southern Railroad used “eminent domain” to purchase their property. The moving date is August 30th, but the college has no where to go - leaving behind what some consider a historical site.

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08/18/2008

Nelson County funeral home sues Archdiocese
Ron Rust, a funeral home owner in New Haven, says a new church policy will interfere with his business coordinating funerals. The Rev. Jeffrey Leger, pastor at St. Catherine Church, has a new policy that funeral directors must work with him when planning services at his church.

08/14/2008

This week's religion news

08/05/2008

The Cotton Patch Gospel

If you have an event for the religion page send it to: sherlene.shanklin@whas11.com
This week there's a couple of functions you might be interested in check out.

08/03/2008

Anglican leader urges ban on gay bishops
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said the Anglican Communion needs “space for study and free discussion without pressure” about whether to accept changes in the traditional biblical understanding of same-sex relationships.

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