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Kiosk Allows Credit Card Donations
BOSTON — God is now extending credit at one Boston church.
St. Anthony Shrine in Boston claims to be the first Catholic church in the world to install a kiosk that allows worshippers to make electronic donations.
“I think it’s been a pretty big hit, actually,” Friar David Convertino, the shrine’s guardian and executive director told The Boston Herald.
International Herald Tribune
Americas
Associated Press
Officer Ronald Campbell said Juanita Bynum met with authorities Thursday at an undisclosed location to press the charges against preacher Thomas W. Weeks III, founder of Global Destiny churches.
The struggle happened early Wednesday in a hotel parking lot near Atlanta’s airport, and a hotel bellman pulled Weeks off Bynum, Campbell said.
Daily News (LA)
BY REBECCA ROSEN LUM
MediaNews Staff Writer
An unheralded new church publication, “God Loveth His Children,” says gay feelings are neither learned nor chosen, and it counsels against rejecting a gay child.
Seemingly aimed at young people, the statement gently counsels individuals who feel attraction to and love for same-gender people to trust in God’s plan and not act upon the transitory desires of mortal life - a period of “probation during which we face a variety of temptations and challenges.”
The Boston Globe
Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –Harvard wants to reschedule a football game against Brown next month because it conflicts with the start of Yom Kippur.
Harvard had scheduled the game against Brown for September 21 at 7:30 p.m. The Jewish holiday begins at sundown that day.
Harvard fans complained — and the university has asked Brown to move the game to September 22, after Yom Kippur ends.
By PAUL BOURGEOIS
Star-Telegram
Blogs, e-mails, letters and water-cooler talk Monday centered on last week’s decision by High Point Church in southeast Arlington to withdraw its invitation to host funeral services for Sinclair.
Church leaders said they canceled the service because, as planned by friends and family, it would have promoted homosexuality.
Sinclair, a Fort Worth native, graduated from Sam Houston High School in Arlington in 1979 and from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. He was a Navy veteran of Desert Storm. He was a member of Turtle Creek Chorale of Dallas, a gay men’s chorus that had planned to perform at his service.
The Seattle Times
By ROSE FRENCH
The Associated Press
Southwestern Baptist, one of the nation’s largest Southern Baptist seminaries, is introducing a new academic program in homemaking as part of an effort to establish what its president calls biblical family and gender roles.
The Rocky Mountain News
Associated Press
Archdiocese takes wait-see approach
The Rev. Robert Whipkey told officers he had been running naked at a high school track and didn’t think anyone would be around at that time of day, a police report said.
He told officers he sweats profusely if he wears clothing while jogging.
The Register
By Lester Haines
A 58-year-old woman is in an Auckland hospital with “life threatening” injuries after being hit by car as she left the city’s Methodist Mission Church, 3 News reports.
The driver of the vehicle reportedly “deliberately drove” at the church after jumping several red lights at speed, narrowly missing several pedestrians. Witnesses report seeing the car approaching from a distance of half a kilometre on the wrong side of the road before accelerating towards its target.
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UK & Ireland
AFP
The new rules are “an important move to institutionalise the management of reincarnation of living Buddhas,” the Xinhua news agency said.
International Herald Tribune
Asia-Pacific
By Paul Vitello
LAUREL HOLLOW, New York: Harvinder Anand, the new mayor of this Long Island village of multimillion-dollar homes, private beaches and yacht owners, is, like many other residents, a successful business executive, a boater and a connoisseur of world travel.
His Sikh turban and beard drew double takes when he moved to the community 10 years ago, but it does not get many anymore. At least not among the locals.
East Vally Tribune
David Woodfill
Arizona Mills mall officials today forced one of their merchandisers to stop selling Nazi flags.
All Flags & Sports, which also offers sports merchandise and other memorabilia, had been selling replicas of flags used by the Nazi Party in Germany before and during World War II.
“We don’t condone that kind of merchandise being sold,” said the mall’s general manager, Todd R. Olson.
The Daily News, LA
BY MARCUS KABEL
Associated Press
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien said the toys made by Valencia-based One2believe company, will be offered in 425 of Wal-Mart’s 3,376 discount stores and Supercenters, mostly in the South and Midwest.