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Episcopal Church fires 61 priests and deacons in the Central Valley. Part of the reason, is they followed former Bishop John David Schofield when he rebuked the national church for its stance on the ordination of gays into the priesthood. The 61 clergy had six months to deny or recant their stance against...

Police are investigating whether a satanic cult could be responsible for a series of bizarre occurrences at a Jensen Beach church...The Rev. James Moligano of St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church told WPBF News 25's Terri Parker on Friday that he has reason to believe a satanic cult is behind the recent theft of a book of prayers, the attempted theft of some communion wafers during a service and the appearance of snakes outside the church.

Police charged a third person Wednesday in connection with beatings and rape that authorities say were carried out by a satanic cult. Diana Palmer, 44, of Cottage Woods Court, surrendered to police Wednesday afternoon. She was charged with being an accessory after the fact of assault with a deadly weapon and was being held in the Durham County Jail under a $95,000 bond. Joseph Craig, 25, has been charged with kidnapping, rape, forcible sexual offense and assault in the case. His wife, Joy Johnson, 30, has been charged with aiding and abetting. Both were being held Wednesday in the Durham...

The Italian author Oriana Fallaci, who once wrote that Muslims "breed like rats", may be facing up to three years in prison after she vowed to blow up a mosque.Ms Fallaci, 75, who has cancer, is due to appear in court next week charged with the lesser offence of vilifying Islam, punishable with a £3,450 fine. But after her latest outburst in the New Yorker last week Muslim leaders are demanding that she be tried for inciting religious hatred, which carries a three-year jail term. The former journalist, who has said she will not attend Monday's hearing in Bergamo, told...

Kofi Annan's tenure as secretary-general of the United Nations is coming to an end -- that's the good news. The bad news is the global powers that wanna be, who already are lobbying their pals in Turtle Bay and Geneva to replace him, possess the same international government philosophy as Mr. Annan. Their support must be won from a constituency that universally agrees the United Nations must grow bigger, stronger and more influential. Over the next several months, the campaign to succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. secretary-general will continue, in private meetings and through brokered deals. Unlike U.S. presidential candidates,...

<p>Fox News has obtained exclusive new details about the condition of the body of Laci Peterson (search), which washed up on the shores of San Francisco Bay (search) last month.</p> <p>A source who has seen the 25-page autopsy report and does not work for either the defense or the prosecution told Fox News that the body of the 8-months-pregnant woman was missing the head and neck, and both arms are cut off at the elbows.</p>