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Bear spray empties church

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 3:40pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Authorities in Alaska say a church congregation in Anchorage evacuated Sunday morning services because of a carbon monoxide scare that turned out to be bear spray someone shot off in the basement.

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Church to show film on health, food

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 10:08pm

OGDEN -- The first area screening of the film "Forks Over Knives" will be at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Seventh-day Adventist Church at 22nd Street and Taylor Avenue.

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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 - 5:25am

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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Church changes Coat Outreach date

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Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 10:06pm

OGDEN -- The date for the fourth annual Coat Outreach has moved up to Nov. 5,

The original date for the event organized by Canyon Road Assembly of God and The Ogden Rescue Mission was Nov. 12.

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(PIERRE DUCHARME/The Associated Press) Lakeland Police and Polk County Sheriff’s Deputies investigate a shooting in Lakeland, Fla. on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011. A gunman killed his wife at their Florida home and then burst through the front door of a nearby church on Sunday, wounding a pastor and associate pastor before parishioners tackled him, authorities and relatives said. The suspect, 57-year-old Jeremiah Fogle, killed one person at a home about a block away from the church before shooting the pastors, the Polk County Sheriff’s office said. The two men, pastor William Boss and associate pastor Carl Stewart, were in critical condition. Maria Beauford said the slain woman was her sister, 56-year-old Theresa Fogle. The Fogles married in 2002 and had been members of Greater Faith Christian Center Church, where the shootings happened, but had started their own ministry out of their house and regularly hosted Sunday services, Beauford said.

Man accused of killing wife, wounding 2 pastors

Mike Schneider The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 4:44pm

LAKELAND, Fla. — A gunman killed his wife at their Florida home and then burst through the front door of a nearby church on Sunday, wounding a pastor and associate pastor before parishioners tackled him, authorities and relatives said.

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Church gunman tackled by parishioners

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Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 11:34am

LAKELAND, Fla. -- A gunman who already had killed one person burst through the doors of a central Florida church on Sunday, shooting and wounding the pastor and associate pastor before parishioners tackled him, authorities said.

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Second Baptist to observe anniversary

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Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 6:39pm

OGDEN -- Second Baptist Church, 227 27th St., will observe its 40th anniversary at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 25.

As a prelude to the anniversary service the church is having a dinner theater presentation of "An Angel's Touch," a play about a mother's fervent prayer for God to intercede in her son's life.

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Trinity Presbyterian will hold book sale

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Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 6:49pm

OGDEN -- Plan to browse and buy books and media at a huge book sale in the parking lot just north of D&E Liquidations, 1902 N. Washington Blvd, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 24. All proceeds go to support the mission programs of Trinity Presbyterian Church. For more information, call Trinity Presbyterian Church, 140 N. Tyler Ave., at 801-782-9778.

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New minister invites public to installation

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Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 6:50pm

OGDEN -- The public is invited as the Congregational United Church of Christ in Ogden holds a service of installation for pastor the Rev. Gage Church, at 3 p.m. Sept. 25.

Church began his ministry in Ogden on March 1. He graduated from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in 2009 and served one year as a resident chaplain at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he specialized in psychiatric and addiction ministry.

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Church will change fall meeting times

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Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 6:52pm

OGDEN -- Effective Sunday, the congregation of Ogden First Baptist Church and New Beginnings Christian Church will return to its regular worship schedule.

Sunday School will begin at 9:45 a.m. and the worship service will begin at 11 a.m.

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Church to host open-mic concert

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Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 6:53pm

OGDEN -- The Congregational United Church of Christ, 3350 Harrison Blvd., is hosting an open-mic concert from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Music, poetry and other appropriate entertainment are encouraged and welcomed.

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K.O.C. fundraiser for flood victims

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Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 6:54pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- Knights of Columbus Council 14399 of Holy Family Catholic Church donated $2,000 to assist the Minot, N.D., Catholic schools in recovering from a devastating summer flood.

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(Courtesy photo) The entrance to the Ogden Buddhist Church, 155 North St., Ogden. The church has ended its summer hiatus and will resume services at 1 p.m. this Sunday.

Ogden church welcomes all faiths to learn from Buddhism

Laura Withers Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 6:58pm

OGDEN -- The Rev. Jerry Hirano looks relaxed as he sits in a room in the Ogden Buddhist Church, where he has been the minister since 1999. With him are his assistant ministers, Annette Koga and Mike Monson.

Hirano is also the minister -- or kaikyoshi in Japanese -- for the Salt Lake Buddhist Church and chairman of the Buddhist Churches of America Ministers Association.

He also teaches advanced classes in Jodo Shinshu, a branch of Mahayana Buddhism, which recognizes all people as potential buddhas.

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Presentation discusses the science behind the Shroud of Turin

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 7:00pm

OGDEN -- The public is invited to attend a presentation about the science behind the study of the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial cloth of Jesus.

No tickets are required for the event that will begin with Mass at 5 p.m. and a presentation following, at approximately 6:30 p.m. next Saturday at St. James Catholic Church, 495 N. Harrison Blvd.

Recognized by many as the cloth that wrapped the body of Jesus Christ when he was laid in his tomb and then resurrected, the Shroud of Turin has been studied extensively. "The most controversial and arguably the most important artifact in the world," is one description of the cloth offered by the Turin Shroud Center of Colorado.

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Razing an old LDS church house

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 9:34am

FARMINGTON — City leaders have voted to use Redevelopment Agency funds to help remove a blight on the city’s north side, while attempting to help a neighborhood group’s humanitarian effort at the same time.

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