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Integrity Christian Fellowship, 2165 Madison Ave., in Ogden, will host a concert and presentation by the nine-member Jost family, known as the Josties, at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The community is invited. The Jost family travels across Canada and the United States to share a message, through music and testimony, of the faithfulness of God. Patriarch Dale Jost served as a pastor in the Evangelical Free Church for 15 years. Jost and his wife, Lisa, publish Hearts At Home, a by-donation magazine devoted to the strengthening and encouragement of families. The Josties' music is described as a unique blend of acoustic country, folk and light contemporary. A free-will offering will be received, and light refreshments will follow this event. For information, call 801-726-7748, email icfcinc@juno.com or visit integritychristianfellowship.com or josties.com.

Christian group to share testimonies through music

Last updated Friday, April 27, 2012 - 4:57pm

Integrity Christian Fellowship, 2165 Madison Ave., in Ogden, will host a concert and presentation by the nine-member Jost family, known as the Josties, at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The community is invited.

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FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 file photo, medical officials try to treat a victim of a bomb blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital at Suleja General Hospital in Suleja, Nigeria. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing at least 25 people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect, Boko Haram, claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. Boko Haram's insurgency started with robed men on motorcycles killing their enemies one at a time across Nigeria's remote and dusty northeast. Now the radical Muslim sect's attacks have morphed into a nationwide sectarian fight. (AP Photo/Dele Jones, File)

Christians targeted in Nigerian violence

Jon Gambrell, Njadvara Musa The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 11:32am

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria's northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said Saturday, as Christians vowed to defend themselves from the group's widening sectarian fight against the country's government.

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Blending of religion, politics a hot topic at WSU

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 7:59am

OGDEN -- Do Mitt Romney's fellow presidential candidates have the right to challenge the nature of his religious faith? And should children enrolled in public schools be asked to pledge their allegiance to "one nation, under God"?

Diverse opinions flowed at Weber State University's Taboo Talks, this month focused on America's uneasy mixing of religion and politics.

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(STEVEN SENNE/The Associated Press) Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney retakes the microphone after being asked a question by a member of the audience during a campaign stop Monday at a VFW Post in Milford, N.H.

Layton pastor comments on Romney, Mormonism

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 6:25am

LAYTON — It’s time to build bridges instead of insulting Mormons, says one local pastor. The Rev. Myke Crowder, pastor of Christian Life Center in Layton and a member of the executive council of the National Clergy Council in Washington, D.C., said remarks made by Southern Baptist pastor and Rick Perry supporter Robert Jeffress have no place in a presidential debate.

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Protesters gather rocks during clashes with Egyptian security forces at a protest of a recent attack on a church in Cairo Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011. Fierce clashes erupted Sunday between Christians protesting a recent attack on a church and the Egyptian military, leaving more than a dozen people dead and scores injured, Health Ministry officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

Egypt Coptic church decries attacks on Christians

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Last updated Monday, October 10, 2011 - 9:50am

CAIRO -- Egypt's Coptic church blasted authorities Monday for allowing repeated attacks on Christians with impunity as the death toll from a night of rioting rose to 26, most of them Christians who were trying to stage a peaceful protest in Cairo over an attack on a church.

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