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  • Monday, February 20 2012 11:56 AM EST2012-02-20 16:56:22 GMT
    A 302-year-old Delaware church congregation has held its final service after falling on hard times.

  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 10:03 AM EST2012-02-15 15:03:01 GMT
    Victims of priest sex abuse are calling on Catholic church leaders in Wilmington to resign in light of church records documenting how the Wilmington diocese handled pedophile priests.

  • Friday, February 10 2012 3:54 PM EST2012-02-10 20:54:04 GMT
    President Barack Obama, grappling with a political firestorm that threatened to consume his administration, unveiled a birth control compromise Friday that he said would both protect religious liberties and ensure that women have access to free contraception.

  • Tuesday, February 7 2012 7:42 AM EST2012-02-07 12:42:09 GMT
    The plaintiff in a lawsuit that claims the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors unconstitutionally opens meetings with Christian prayers has been ordered to reveal her identity.

  • Wednesday, January 11 2012 10:24 AM EST2012-01-11 15:24:55 GMT
    On Jan. 15, Bishop Ron and the Rev. Nancy Soulsman will be retiring after 28 years of full-time ministry at Lighthouse Church of God in Berlin.

  • Thursday, January 5 2012 3:51 PM EST2012-01-05 20:51:10 GMT
    A 42-year-old Ohio man has been indicted in Chicago for allegedly defrauding more than $300,000 from churches and small businesses nationwide.

  • Thursday, December 8 2011 2:03 PM EST2011-12-08 19:03:04 GMT
    Pope Benedict XVI has illuminated a huge Christmas tree lighting display in Umbria by tapping on a tablet computer from the comfort of the Vatican.

  • Wednesday, November 30 2011 8:56 AM EST2011-11-30 13:56:53 GMT
    A committee of the national Episcopal Church has found that the bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina has not abandoned the church.

  • Monday, November 28 2011 10:09 AM EST2011-11-28 15:09:47 GMT
    English-speaking Roman Catholics who have regularly attended Mass for years found themselves in an unfamiliar position Sunday, needing printed cards or sheets of paper to follow along with a ritual many have known since childhood.

  • Friday, October 21 2011 7:32 AM EDT2011-10-21 11:32:06 GMT
    Catholic and Jewish groups are condemning actress Susan Sarandon for referring to Pope Benedict XVI as a Nazi.

  • Civil liberties lawyers say they are suing the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors to halt what they say is the unconstitutional practice of opening meetings with a Christian prayer.

  • My charity has had disappointing results from garage sales -- the cost of driving around and collecting items is almost cost-prohibitive. Is there better way to sell items?

  • Tuesday, September 13 2011 3:52 PM EDT2011-09-13 19:52:21 GMT
    Civil-liberties groups are suing a southwest Virginia school board for posting the Ten Commandments, contending that the display violates the Constitution's guarantee of separation of church and state.

  • Tuesday, August 16 2011 12:09 PM EDT2011-08-16 16:09:18 GMT
    A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of the Old Testament: the sacred text that people revered in the past was not the same one we study today.

  • Thursday, July 28 2011 11:45 AM EDT2011-07-28 16:45:19 GMT
    The "Bell of Hope" at New York City's historic St. Paul's Chapel has tolled in remembrance of Norway's massacre victims.

  • Thursday, July 28 2011 11:41 AM EDT2011-07-28 16:41:54 GMT
    There's a new resting place for Boston's first Roman Catholic cardinal.

  • Dr. Michael Thomas Scott, senior pastor of Jerusalem Baptist Church, 10011 Jerusalem Road, Temperanceville, Va., invites you to attend a variety of events coming up in August.

  • A church service in Ohio has included a mock retrial of Casey Anthony, the woman in Florida found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter.

  • Everlasting Hope Ministries has announced the schedule for this year's Eighteenth Annual Tent Services. The services will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 16-18, 20 and 21, on the grounds of the Booker Street Church of God.

  • As housing developments sprouted on former farms off U.S. 13, stately Old Drawyers Church stayed picture-postcard-perfect, perched on a creekside hill about a mile north of Odessa, with a graveyard where timeworn stones testify to its three centuries of service.

  • The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore is investigating an accusation of sexual abuse at a church dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s.

  • Delmarva's Heart and Soul

    Heart and Soul is a segment that has as its goal that of helping WBOC's viewers better understand major controversial issues and the ever-present role faith plays in it.

  • Archive that stores and distributes data sets from the leading studies on American religion. Many polls and survey results.

  • This article about Delmarva's religious history appeared in a special magazine-style publication called "Delmarva Millennium, Volume I," published in October 1999 by Thomson-Chesapeake.

  • Collection of Catholic links on liturgy, saints, religious orders, Catholic media and organizations, etc.

  • History of the United Methodist Churches, one of the largest Christian denominations on Delmarva, sometimes referred

  • Extensive links to non-fiction, fiction, and reference sources with authors arranged alphabetically. This site also contains a link to Early Church fathers, the most important writings from the first 800 years of the church.

  • A site exploring religion, spirituality, and morality, with a good bit of information on other religions as well featuring online versions of different faiths' sacred texts, some interactive quizzes, and information about various forms of spirituality.
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