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The problem-plagued Crystal Cathedral has endorsed selling its sprawling campus to a university as part of a bankruptcy reorganization plan.

Under the plan, the church would be able to continue to use a number of buildings on the Garden Grove campus and possibly repurchase them at a later date.

 

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An Amish sect referred to as the Bergholz Clan is the subject of a federal investigation following a wave of Amish-on-Amish incidents, FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson confirmed to CNN Wednesday.

law enforcement officials and members of the Amish community believe the sect's leader has created a cult and is single-handedly behind the beard cutting incidents and other crimes in recent years

 

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During the trial of The trial of Nicolette and Hardus Lotter, and her boyfriend, Matthew Naidoo, for the murder of the siblings' parents a court in South Africa heard the motive for the double murder was to get a share of the inheritance.

Naidoo told his girlfriend and her brother how to kill her parents and that it was God's will they should die, according to statements made to police.

 

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South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has instructed a TV commercial to be withdrawn as it could offend Christians.

The ad depicts angels falling from heaven because they are attracted to a man's deodorant.

 

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When Pope Benedict XVI took over the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order last year, expectations were high that heads would roll over one of the greatest scandals of the 20th century Roman Catholic Church.

But in the absence of radical change, the movement has seen a dramatic decline in membership since the scandal was revealed in 2009.

 

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On Anderson Cooper (CNN) tonight Gary Tuchman investigates adults who say they're following the word of God when beating children, sometimes to death.

Larry and Carri Williams, the couple refered to in this report, are accused of starving their adopted 13-year-old Ethiopian-born daughter and locking her outside in the cold, where she died from exposure.

 

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Once again, the world failed to end, despite a high-profile prediction from a radio preacher in California.

When the Rapture he predicted for May 21, 2011 did not occur, Harold Camping came up with a new date: October 21.

 

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Earlier this month Ugandan troops almost caught Joseph Kony, the leader of the quasi-religious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA is accused of widespread atrocities across several countries

 

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In April, 2008, Royden Wood -- the former senior pastor of the now-defunct Ambassador Baptist Church in London, Ontario -- was convicted of beating three boys who attended the church's alternative school in the 1980s and grabbing the breasts of two church members.

Sentenced to one year in jail and three years' probation, Wood faces six more sexual assault charges.

 

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