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LAST MONTH, FOR THE first time in years, a member denomination withdrew from the National Council of Churches (NCC). The spunky, 400,000-member communion is the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, and its decision to quit the reflexively left-wing NCC was based on a unanimous vote of clergy and lay delegates.According to one church spokesman, a recent NCC fundraising letter helped spark the departure. It asked supporters to fight "right-wing attacks" on the controversial church agency. The letter named President Bush, Rush Limbaugh, James Dobson, and the Heritage Foundation as insidious forces that must be opposed."It got to be...

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:42:57 EDT From: David Virtue Subject: FIRE SET IN ORTHODOX EPISCOPAL PARISH. POLICE SITE HATE CRIMES FIRE SET IN ORTHODOX EPISCOPAL PARISH. POLICE SITE HATE CRIMES A message from the Rev. Scott Wooten, vicar of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Graham, Texas. Friends in Christ, On Tuesday, August 5th, late in the night, the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Graham Texas, located in the Diocese of Fort Worth, was vandalized, and a portion of it was set ablaze. The main church was littered with food from the kitchen and candle...