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The works of 40 artists are being spotlighted at an exhibit at the All Hallows Episcopal Church on Greenwood Avenue at Bent Road in Wyncote. The exhibit is being held in the parish hall of the church, on Greenwood Avenue at Bent Road.

COULD ANOTHER savior be out there ready to finally end all talk of razing the Church of the Assumption? After the city's Board of Licenses and Inspections Review voted Monday to grant a temporary stay blocking a demolition permit issued to the new owner, John Wei, activists said they would try to persuade Wei to sell the church to someone who will restore it. "If he were to sell the church and wanted to continue with his plans to develop the...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. - The pastor of an eastern Kentucky church whose members had voted to bar mixed-race couples from joining the congregation says that decision has been declared null and void. Stacy Stepp is pastor of the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Pike County. Stepp told the Associated Press yesterday that the church body can't pass new bylaws if they run contrary to local, state or national laws. He said the proposal that was approved in a 9-6 vote last week was discriminatory, therefore it couldn't be adopted.

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Bryn Mawr has asked the Lower Merion Zoning Hearing Board to permit it to create a low-cost day-care center at the church's South Merion Avenue building. At a Thursday meeting, Sam Simpson, the church's lawyer, said the proposed center would be at the back of the church, at the intersection of Old Lancaster and South Merion Roads. The proposed center would serve children between the ages of 2 and 5, Simpson said, and would provide day care for the children of employees at nearby Bryn Mawr Hospital and area residents unable to afford conventional day care.

The Restoration Christian Church was granted a variance to conduct services in the Jamesway Shopping Center at Easton and Almshouse Roads by the Doylestown Township Zoning Hearing Board on Wednesday night. The Rev. Michael A. Owens said he would use unit 14B, directly behind the Rite-Aid store near the rear of Jamesway Plaza, for a Sunday religious service from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and for a Thursday evening Bible class from 7:30 to 9 p.m. He also will have his offices there during the week for study and counseling members of his fledging congregation of about 80 people.

Mine eyes have seen the horrors of the present income tax. With it freedom has eroded so I've given tax the ax. I would like to help all people so they, too, won't break their backs. Let justice be restored. Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!. . . - Song from Liberty Ministries publications As an Eagles defensive end, Lem Burnham was plowing down bodies on the football field in late 1979 when he took a vow of poverty and became the chief minister in a church named the Life Enrichment Institute of America.

Pope John Paul II has established his right to be heard at the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women this September. In a pastoral letter July 10, he all but apologized to women for the historical lack of appreciation of our "mystery. " He surprised women worldwide by thanking them as "mothers, wives, sisters and daughters as well as women who work. " He even thanked women for our "being," whether or not we have babies. In the past, the Pope has limited his appreciation for women to those functions he approves of. These have been the functions of the family, not the functions of the world.

MYRTLE SIMS PERRY always put on her finest outfit for church, complete with the big hats that she made herself, her nails impeccably sculpted. "As a young child she was always told by her mother to give God her best and that's why she loved to dress in her finest," her family said. "She was the diva of the church," said her daughter, Cheryl Curry. Myrtle was not only a fashionable dresser at her church, the United House of Prayer for All People, in South Philadelphia, she played the piano for three choirs at services, directed one of them, the Echoes of McCollough, created bulletins, handled correspondence and was chairwoman of the church's Women's Day. Myrtle Perry, who took on multiple jobs to support her family over the years, died May 2 of complications from surgery.

Sunlight breaks through the majestic stained-glass windows that frame the limestone altar, where no one is praying. Instead, flipping through his iPhone, Robert Chevalier is sitting in the lobby of Corporate Facilities Inc., his firm's headquarters, the former nave of the deconsecrated Church of the New Jerusalem and an impressive model for adaptive reuse of a historic building. In 1985 Chevalier founded CFI, a high-end furniture dealer; locally, it is the sole representative of Western Pennsylvania-based Knoll Inc., known for its modern museum-worthy designs.

LAUREL, Del. - A church sustained thousands of dollars in damage from a weekend fire. Investigators believe the Sunday night fire at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church started in the gable end of the front. The church was closed and no one was injured. Chief Deputy Fire Marshal Randy Lee said that the fire might have been accidental but that the cause remained under investigation. - AP