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  • Buy this Ashcroft church for less than a condo in Kamloops or the Okanagan

    You'd have trouble finding a condo in Kelowna or Kamloops for $400,000 but you can get yourself a 5,000-square-foot historic church in downtown Ashcroft for a mere $329,000.
  • More US churches are committing to racism-linked reparations

    NEW YORK - The Episcopal Diocese of Texas acknowledges that its first bishop in 1859 was a slaveholder. An Episcopal church in New York City erects a plaque noting the building's creation in 1810 was made possible by wealth resulting from slavery.
  • Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge

    SELMA, Ala. - )The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon.
  • Hong Kong protester shot as China marks its 70th anniversary

    HONG KONG - In a fearsome escalation of violence, Hong Kong police shot a protester at close range in the chest Tuesday, leaving the teenager bleeding and howling on the ground. Tens of thousands joined anti-government demonstrations that spread across the semi-autonomous Chinese territory even as Communist leaders in Beijing celebrated 70 years in power.
  • Hong Kong protesters set fires in 13th weekend of protests

    HONG KONG - Protesters in Hong Kong threw gasoline bombs at government headquarters and set fires in the street on Saturday, while police fired tear gas and blue-colored water from truck-mounted cannons in the 13th consecutive weekend of anti-government and anti-police demonstrations.
  • United Methodists edge toward breakup over LGBT policies

    NEW YORK - There's at least one area of agreement among conservative, centrist and liberal leaders in the United Methodist Church: America's largest mainline Protestant denomination is on a path toward likely breakup over differences on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT pastors.
  • United Methodists edge toward breakup over LGBT policies

    NEW YORK - There's at least one area of agreement among conservative, centrist and liberal leaders in the United Methodist Church: America's largest mainline Protestant denomination is on a path toward likely breakup over differences on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT pastors.
  • Mormons grapple with race decades after ban on black leaders

    SALT LAKE CITY - The Mormon church on Friday celebrated the 40th anniversary of reversing its ban on black people serving in the lay priesthood, going on missions or getting married in temples, rekindling debate about one of the faith's most sensitive topics.
  • Documents question Charleston massacre suspect's competency

    COLUMBIA, S.C. - The judge in the death penalty trial of Dylann Roof believes it's possible the white man charged with gunning down nine black parishioners in Charleston last year may not be mentally competent to stand trial, according to newly unsealed court documents.
  • 'Mississippi Burning' case, now closed, exposed KKK terror

    JACKSON, Miss. - Federal and state authorities this week said they're ending investigation of the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" killings, one of the most infamous cases in the violent backlash to the civil rights movement.
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