Police have made an arrest in the death of an 84-year-old security guard gunned down outside a Detroit church Wednesday. Joseph Lewis was killed in the parking lot of Victory Way Assembly Church of God in Christ on Tireman between Livernois and I-96. One person is in police custody but has not been formally charged [...]
As about 15 members of a Detroit church studied passages at their Wednesday night Bible study, the man hired to protect them was gunned down outside. The death of 84-year-old Joseph Lewis is a "heartbreaker," said deacon Jimmy Jones, 61, from Victory Way Assembly Church of God & Christ. "We were in Bible study and [...]
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – An 84-year-old security guard was shot to death in the parking lot of a Detroit church while Bible study took place inside. Police said it happened just before 9 p.m. Wednesday at Victory Way Assembly Church of God near Tireman and Vancourt. Deacon Jimmy Jones of Victory Way Assembly Church of God [...]
The Rev. Marguerite Mary Kohn, 62, died Saturday night at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center of injuries sustained Thursday in a double shooting at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City, police reported Sunday. Kohn was co-rector of the Howard County church. The second woman, church employee Brenda Brewington, 59, died Thursday. Kohn [...]
Police Friday identified two of the victims in the shooting in an Ellicott City church as an Episcopal minister and a church employee. The identity of a man found dead in a nearby wooded area remained unknown. Police say Brenda Brewington, 59, of Ellicott City was found dead on the scene at St. Peter's Episcopal [...]
Howard County police are investigating three shootings — two of them fatal — that occurred Thursday evening in and around St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City. Two women were found shot in an office at the church; one was dead and one critically injured. Police also found a man dead from what appeared to [...]
Police have made an arrest in the death of an 84-year-old security guard gunned down outside a Detroit church Wednesday. Joseph Lewis was killed in the parking lot of Victory Way Assembly Church of God in Christ on Tireman between Livernois and I-96. One person is in police custody but has not been formally charged [...]
In the spirit of forgiveness, several local Episcopal churches have offered to host a funeral for Douglas Franklin Jones, the man Howard County police say fatally shot a rector and a church administrator at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City before killing himself in nearby woods. "A couple of churches thought it would be [...]
As about 15 members of a Detroit church studied passages at their Wednesday night Bible study, the man hired to protect them was gunned down outside. The death of 84-year-old Joseph Lewis is a "heartbreaker," said deacon Jimmy Jones, 61, from Victory Way Assembly Church of God & Christ. "We were in Bible study and [...]
Catholic education authorities will look into school safety after a student was stabbed before class at Caboolture, north of Brisbane, yesterday. St Columban's College in Caboolture was closed for the day after a 14-year-old girl was stabbed outside a toilet block around 7:30am (AEST). A 16-year-old boy was charged last night with attempted murder. Teachers [...]
Residents of the northern Israeli city of Safed are in shock after the discovery of six Torah scrolls stolen from the historic Tzemach Tzedek Synagogue. But even as police continue their investigation into the Friday night theft, members of the local community have commissioned the writing of a new Torah scroll in the hope that [...]
Testimony was concluded last week in a bitter three-year court case in which a Brooklyn rabbi who was once convicted of stealing a Torah from an Upstate synagogue and trying to fence it, now claims to be a member and assistant rabbi of an East Village orthodox synagogue — which the synagogue’s rabbi and congregation [...]
(JTA) — Police in Pune, India, deported an Iranian doctoral candidate for "undesirable activities," which reportedly included spying on a local synagogue and the Chabad house. It was discovered through intercepted e-mails that Hamid Kashkouli, who was studying for his doctorate at the University of Pune, was an undercover agent for the Iranian government, the [...]
NEW YORK – The New York Police Department is beefing up security at the city's synagogues and other Jewish sites this week for the Passover holiday in the wake of a deadly attack on a religious school in France last month. Authorities stressed that there have been no specific threats reported in the city for [...]
A southeastern Pennsylvania church subjected members of a youth group to a mock kidnapping and interrogations without telling them it was staged, and the outraged mother of one 14-year-old girl has filed a complaint with police. The pastor of the Glad Tidings Assembly of God in Middletown said the church is "so saddened" that the [...]
MEXICO CITY – For two decades, a community hospital in Colorado sent a medical aid mission each year to a remote city in northeast Mexico, treating tens of thousands of low-income residents for free. Dozens of U.S. doctors and dentists, backed up by even more nurses and technicians, would repair cleft palates, take out gall [...]
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — John and Wanda Casias knew the risks of being missionaries in one of Mexico's most violent, cartel-dominated regions, their children say, but they refused to curtail their work and instead put their ministry ahead of their safety. The couple's slaying this week during a home invasion comes as missionary groups are [...]
As drug-related violence continues to ravage parts of Mexico, a mounting number of churches in the Inland area and nationwide are canceling missions for fear that volunteers might get caught up in the maelstrom. Riverside’s Grove Community Church, which has been going to Mexico for 35 years, recently canceled a planned trip for this month [...]
The upcoming spring holidays (Passover, Independence Day and Lag B’Omer; especially Passover) are liable to provide incentive for terrorists around the world to attack Israeli and Jewish targets abroad. Against the background of a series of terrorist attacks and attempted terrorist attacks since the beginning of the year, Iran and Hezbollah are stepping up their [...]
FIRST NATIONWIDE TEST OF THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM Test to Take Place November 9 at 2 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congregational Security Inc announced that on November 9 at 2:00 p.m. eastern standard time, the federal government will conduct the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The test will last [...]
The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, events in the Palestinian sphere anticipated for later this month and the upcoming Jewish holidays are liable to create an incentive for terrorist groups to perpetrate attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets abroad. As it does every year ahead of Rosh Hashanah and the other holidays that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small airplanes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Authorities say there is no specific or credible terrorist threat for the 10-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But they [...]
Emergency personnel are used to being called into action at any given time. It's not often, though, that they're called into action during church service, which is what happened Sunday during the 10 a.m. Mass at Holy Redeemer Church in Marshall. A number of churchgoers with medical backgrounds quickly stepped in when an elderly man [...]
ST. PETE BEACH — Holy Week services at St. John Vianney Catholic Church are continuing as scheduled this week, despite a two-hour emergency closing Sunday when eight parishioners became ill. The cause of the illness, first reported as possible methane gas from clogged sewer lines, is actually unknown. "The incident is still under investigation. So [...]
As fears of the swine flu fade, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is urging parishes to reinstitute two venerated rituals, passing the communion chalice and passing the peace, by Palm Sunday in late March. In an e-mail sent late Wednesday to its 291 parishes, the archdiocese announced it would soon be safe to resume [...]
Between 60 and 70 people were evacuated Tuesday night from the Word of God Worship Center when Milwaukee fire fighters responding to a medical emergency detected elevated carbon monoxide levels, a fire official said. After being called to the center at 3320 W. Vliet St. at 9:35 p.m. a carbon monoxide detector carried by a [...]
In late January, workmen in Chantilly erected a minaret on the roof of a new building, the first highly visible sign that it was to be a mosque. That night, vandals hurled rocks at its arched windows, shattering many. Empty beer cans and liquor bottles were scattered on the mosque’s grounds and roof. The attackers [...]
Several members of the congregation who attend the Sikh Society of Michigan temple in southwest Sterling Heights are sick over the fact that someone vandalized their gurdwara on Dequindre Road north of 14 Mile Road. Sterling Heights police Lt. Luke Riley said a report was made to police Feb. 6 that vandals used black paint [...]
WASHINGTON (CNN) – As New York authorities investigate what appears to be the nation's latest hate crime, the FBI's annual hate crime report, released Monday, shows no significant change in the level of crimes motivated by bias. The FBI reports the number of U.S. hate crimes – offenses as a result of bias toward race, [...]
RARITAN BOROUGH — A Hindu congregation that fought criticism of its move into a formerly Christian church two years ago, this week was the target of vandalism. County officials are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone responsible for the graffiti at the Mission of Swaminarayan Church on Somerset Street. [...]
An arson fire that damaged eight church buses last summer hasn’t been solved, and fire officials are seeking the public’s help. “There are still names and ghosts of names out there,” Capt. Stuart Bevis said of the possible leads, “but there’s nothing solid to follow up.” Shortly before 5:30 a.m. on July 7, Wichita firefighters [...]
DeLand police and Volusia County deputies are investigating a string of church break-ins in and around DeLand over the weekend. Three churches — Kepler Road Baptist Church, Holy Presence Episcopal Church and Seventh Day Adventist Church — are in an unincorporated part of Volusia and all within a half mile of each other on Kepler [...]
A Guerneville woman who embezzled $712,000 from the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and ordered to repay all of the money. Eleanor Zapanta, 51, took the money from 2004 to 2010 while she was business manager for the Occidental Road church. In a statement read [...]
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