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2
Aug
2011
6:28am, EDT
Iraqi Christians targeted in church bombing
The AP reports from SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq:

A car bomb outside a Christian church wounded 23 people Tuesday as security forces found and disabled vehicles packed with explosives outside two other churches in northern Iraq.

The bombing and the two averted attacks in the northern city of Kirkuk signal continued violence against Iraqi Christians, nearly 1 million of whom have fled since the war began in 2003. Continue reading.

Emad Matti / AP
Iraqis inspect the site of an early morning car bomb attack in front of a church in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, on Aug. 2. Scores of people were injured in the attack, police said.
Emad Matti / AP
The damaged interior of the holy family Syrian Catholic Church after an early morning car bomb attack in Kirkuk on Aug. 2.
Marwan Ibrahim / AFP - Getty Images
Medics stitch the forehead of a young girl who was wounded when a car bomb exploded outside a church in Kirkuk on Aug. 2.

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1
May
2011
2:10pm, EDT
Dave Martin / AP
Alberta Baptist Church Buildings and Grounds chairperson Dan Turner takes a moment to pray in the demolished sanctuary of the church in Tuscaloosa, Ala. on Sunday, May 1. About 100 church members gathered outside the church Sunday morning for a brief service before helping their neighbors.
Tornado survivors keep the faith in Alabama
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15
Apr
2011
6:00pm, EDT
MLK's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church celebrates sanctuary restoration
David Goldman / AP
Rev. Cal Murrell reacts during a ceremony on April 15, 2011 to mark the restoration of the sanctuary of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached.
David Goldman / AP
Martin Luther King III, the son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during the ceremony to mark the restoration of the sanctuary.
Ebenezer Baptist Church’s first pastor was born into slavery. The church was founded in Atlanta, Ga. in 1886 shortly after the Reconstruction Era in the South. The church moved to several locations over the years, but the current sanctuary was completed in 1922.
Ebenezer has had pastors who not only preach the Gospel, but take their ministries into the world and speak on behalf of the oppressed, disenfranchised and underprivileged. It was here, from the pulpit of the Heritage Sanctuary, that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached his ministry of nonviolence.
David Goldman / AP
Alveda King, left, and Naomi Ruth Barbara King, the niece and sister in law of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., listen as Dr. King's daughter Rev. Bernice King, near left, speaks during the ceremony.
David Goldman / AP
Organist David Oliver performs during the ceremony.
Read more about the church on its website.
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And I care too.
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27
Mar
2011
2:49pm, EDT
Orthodox fundamentalists protest planned ID cards; allege they contain 'number of the beast'
By Mish Whalen
According to the AP, several thousand Orthodox Christian fundamentalists marched through central Athens to protest a government plan to issue new electronic ID cards they say would include the number 666, or the "number of the beast," hidden in a design.
Kostas Tsironis / AP
A Greek Orthodox nun holds a cutout of Christ on the Cross during a rally against proposed new ID cards in Athens on Sunday, March 27 2011.
John Kolesidis / Reuters
Greek orthodox priests and nuns attend a rally in Athens, March 27, 2011.
Kostas Tsironis / AP
A Greek Orthodox nun prays using prayer beads during a rally against proposed new ID cards in Athens on Sunday, March 27 2011.
Kostas Tsironis / AP
Greek Orthodox nuns use a loudspeaker to shout slogans during a rally against proposed new ID cards in Athens on Sunday, March 27 2011.

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Someone actually read what is written? And understood??? Wow!! People are bewitched -mesmerized- by religion. 666: It's a human number - not of th devil - and in it there is wisdom, Revelations 13:18. 666: It's the number of prosperity -1 Kings 10:14 and 2 Chronicles 9:13.
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21
Jan
2011
10:15am, EST
Felipe Dana / AP
A car, dragged inside a church by a mudslide, is seen in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Jan. 21, 2011. Brazil will create a nationwide disaster-prevention and early-warning system following recent floods and landslides that killed more than 750 people in mountain towns north of Rio de Janeiro, government officials said Thursday.
Car inside a church in Brazil, following mudslides
By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News
More photos from Brazil.
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25
Dec
2010
11:36am, EST
Peter Deconinck / EPA
Little is left standing on Friday, Dec. 25, after the Regina Pacis Church collapsed near Diepenbeek, Belgium. The church collapsed after midnight mass during the night, possibly due to excessive snowfall.
Belgian church collapses after Midnight Mass

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Apparently God was not happy.
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22
Dec
2010
8:09am, EST
Christmas preparations in India
Channi Anand / AP
A man decorates a church ahead of Christmas celebrations in Jammu, India, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010.
Channi Anand / AP
Men clean colored glass panels and a portrait of Jesus Christ at a church ahead of Christmas celebrations in Jammu, India, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010.
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15
Nov
2010
1:03pm, EST
Oliver Berg / EPA
Sheep graze in front of the Cathedral in Cologne, Germany on Monday. A shepherd uses the so-called 'Poller meadows' at Rhine River to feed his animals.
Sheep graze in front of German cathedral
By Stokes Young, nbcnews.com
The striking juxtaposition between the church and the sheep reminds me of a similar picture of sheep in front of a nuclear or coal plant. I think we featured that image in "10 Years of the Week in Pictures" but I can't locate it at the moment. Here's the picture. The plant is a coal plant, and I totally forgot about the rainbow.
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Just to be clear, the sheep are not even close to the cathedral - they could be a mile or so away on the other side of the river Rhine as can be seen.
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17
Sep
2010
4:20pm, EDT
Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA
David Payne, brother of the Church of the Lord Jesus' pastor, Harvey Payne, picks up his snake box, which contains two copperheads, from the back of his pick-up before homecoming service at the church in West Virginia, USA, 04 September 2010. The Church of the Lord Jesus is one of America's last 'Signs' churches, a folk religion that encourages worshippers to speak in tongues and to handle serpents. Popular throughout Appalachia in the 1920s, the practice is rooted in a Biblical passage from the Book of Mark.
Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA
Rufus 'Buddy' Jewell holds a timber rattlesnake as he prays during the church's homecoming service.
Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA
Member Justin Fletcher (L) is anointed with oil as member Nancy Kennedy (R) whirls in a trance and speaks in tongues.
Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA
A handwritten sign on the altar of the Church of the Lord Jesus warns members of the consequences of picking up snakes and drinking strychnine.
Handling snakes
Would you handle a poisonous snake?
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And the snake is praying, please let this redneck put me the f down.
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15
Jun
2010
2:18pm, EDT
Nick Graham / The Journal via AP, file
The "King of King's" statue of Jesus Christ outside of Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio in March of 2008.
Nick Graham / The Dayton Daily News via AP Photo
Just the frame remains of the six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ on Tuesday, June 15 after it was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground.
Holy smoke!
Jesus struck by lightning. Read the story.
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Its crazy that God struck down his favorite son....... the lord works in mysteries ways
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