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BAHAMAS BURGLARY — Over $7,000 stolen from Md. church group on mission
A group of young people from a Maryland church who traveled to an island in the Bahamas this month to run a summer camp for impoverished children was robbed last week of more than $7,000 in church funds as well as personal monies and belongings. "People are shocked and angry and frustrated," said Pastor Kevin McGhee of the Bethany Community
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Birmingham area missionaries survive Uganda bombing by al Shabaab rebels
A group of missionaries from Asbury United Methodist Church in north Shelby County were at a Ugandan restaurant Sunday night watching the soccer World Cup when a bomb ripped through the building, killing 13 people. A second bomb 50 minutes later at Kyadondo Rugby Club claimed more lives. The toll this
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Pa. Church Prays For Members Hurt By Uganda Blast
SELINSGROVE, Pa. (AP) ― The gathering of Christian missionaries from Pennsylvania to watch the World Cup final at an outdoor restaurant in Uganda was to have been a highlight of a month of evangelizing and sightseeing in one of Africa's more Christian countries. In a flash of fire and shrapnel,
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Pennsylvania church group members among those wounded in terror attack
(CNN) — The death toll from a pair of bombings that struck a restaurant and a rugby ground in Uganda's capital is around 60, a police spokeswoman told CNN on Monday. Seventy-one more people were injured, said police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba. The blasts occurred Sunday night as patrons
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Border violence cancels more Mexico missions
For 22 years, Rick and Sherry Owens have led American mission teams all over Mexico — with nobody hurt or killed. And “that is how it is going to end,” Rick Owens said in a recent e-mail to supporters. The former Alaska oilfield worker has helped build more than 150 church buildings
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Violence keeps mission team from Mexico
For the past 20 years, youth and adults from First Presbyterian Church have traveled annually to Mexico for mission work, but for the second year in a row, Mexico will not be their destination this summer. Instead, they're going to work on a school for the deaf in Jamaica. "We are unable to
Ahwatukee church cancels mission to Mexico
Mountain Pointe senior Brandon Kaehr was eagerly anticipating his post-graduation trip this month to northern Baja, where his home church has traveled annually to build houses for the needy. It would have been Kaehr's fourth trip to Mexico with a contingent from Mountain View Lutheran Church in
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Missionary killer sentenced
SALT LAKE CITY — LDS Church officials said they are constantly concerned about the safety of their 52,000 missionaries serving around the world. The statement was issued Monday by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after the sentencing of James Boughton, Jr., 23, in Virginia. Boughton
Violence in Mexico impacts spring break plans
Recent violence across Mexico has impacted spring break and mission trips to the country. Last week, news agencies reported the shooting of two American citizens in Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. In the western state of Guerrero, at least 25 people were killed in a series of violent acts
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Mission will procede with caution
For more than 20 years, spring break has been synonymous with a trip to Mexico for many members of Ashland's First Baptist Church. Every March a bus filled with students and chaperones rolls south on Interstate 5, bound for the El Sauzal Orphanage near the city of Ensenada, in Baja California. Typically,
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Violence in Mexico prompts some faith groups to curb trips
When the Rev. Paul McKay went to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, three years ago to help build homes for the poor, he used some free time to go downtown. "There were outdoor cafes, and the market was booming," said McKay, a chaplain at Baylor Medical Center at Garland. "You felt like you
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Mission trip turns terrifying
Members of a Livingston County church experienced a "terrifying" encounter during a mission trip in Kenya this month when they were held hostage and robbed at gunpoint by a group of men that invaded their living quarters. The missionaries — from Brighton Nazarene Church in Genoa Township
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Local Churches Outline A Mission Trip Screening Process
The arrest of ten Americans in Haiti and the kidnapping charges filed against them have raised some questions about how church organizations and missionary groups operate. Many churches tell us they run extensive background checks on those interested in volunteering. Joanna Dunn, Assistant Pastor at
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Mission Trips Carry Risk
I've never seen it, but I'm told that somewhere at Princeton (N.J.) Theological Seminary, there is a wall inscribed with the names of its graduates who died while in the mission field. They died from all sorts of causes, everything from disease to murder at the hands of pirates. It's intended
U.S. ministries lose workers in Haiti
As religious relief organizations work to help the living and cope with the dying in Haiti, some faith groups are mourning deaths of their members in the recent earthquake. Two United Methodist Church executives, a Lutheran seminarian and three Free Methodist Church missionaries died as a result of
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