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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 04:14:52 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Religion Calendar: Week beginning May 19]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ART EXHIBIT
&bull; Parrot Gallery at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster, 328 W. Orange St., will present emerging artists Kate Landis and Rachel M. H. Lehman in an exhibit of contemporary crafts &mdash; including ceramics, jewelry, fiber, hand-painted furniture and sculpture &mdash; by appointm...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>

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			<title><![CDATA[UCC ministers to celebrate milestones]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It seems ministers never stop ministering.
Two Lancaster United Church of Christ ministers, who will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their ordinations next month, are prime examples.
The Revs. David Gockley and Kenneth Trauger will be honored&nbsp; at the annual meeting of the Penn Central Confere...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JOAN KERN, Correspondent</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 23:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Amish celebrate Ascension Day]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Large numbers of Amish families gathered Thursday to celebrate Ascension Day, the day on which Christians believe that Jesus Christ ascended into heaven.
Amish communities in North America typically mark the day by closing their businesses and not doing field work, focusing instead on family gatheri...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>STAFF REPORT</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jeremy Camp headlines Witness]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At first, they talked about getting by with a flatbed truck for a stage and a couple of speakers for a sound system.
But God had other, slightly larger, plans for the summer music festival that started out in 2002 in the park in Quarryville.
The Witness Festival was born 10 years ago this spring dur...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DAVID O'CONNOR, Staff Writer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 23:25:00 EDT</pubDate>

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			<title><![CDATA[Love thy neighbor]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ephrata's Bergstrasse Evangelical Lutheran Church will mark its 260th anniversary on May 18.
In the fall, the historic "Church on the Hill," at 9 Hahnstown Road, will greet a new neighbor &mdash; the Ephrata campus of Lives Changed by Christ, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
"Some fol...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JOAN KERN, Correspondent</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 23:14:00 EDT</pubDate>

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			<title><![CDATA[Day of Prayer attracts thousands of faithful here]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[King Herod had killed James, one of the leaders of the early church, and now he was about to really show early Christians "he wasn't fooling around."
The king planned to kill the Apostle Peter, and early church leaders, facing being wiped out, were "backed into a corner, where the only option was to...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DAVID O'CONNOR, Staff Writer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 23:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Workshop to focus on building inclusive church]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Julie Shearer gets nauseated at the thought of gays being ostracized.
"When are people just going to get over it and move on?" asked Shearer, 68, of Manheim Township.
When Shearer retired as a local interim United Methodist Church pastor eight years ago, she returned to First UMC, Duke and Walnut st...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JOAN KERN, Correspondent</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CWS to hold community breakfast]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shankar Rai grew up in a refugee camp in Nepal.
"I lived there from the time I was a child until I was 19," said Rai, 27, exiled from Bhutan as a member of a Nepali minority ethnic group.
In Lancaster, Rai serves as pastor of the Bhutanese Nepali Church of Lancaster, meeting at West End Mennonite Fe...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JOAN KERN, Correspondent</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:21:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2 days devoted to prayer]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's amazing to him, David Jeremiah said, how prayer so often is "something we turn to only when we get into trouble."
"We try everything else but prayer" to find our way, he said, because "when the political, military and financial solutions are not working," we often call on God only as a last res...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DAVID O'CONNOR, Staff Writer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Purple Door festival today in Lebanon]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Its place on the calendar has changed, and it's an entirely indoor festival this year.
But everything else is still the same, and everything is set to go for today's Purple Door music festival, back at its former home just south of Lebanon.
The event that features harder-edged Christian music and cu...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DAVID O'CONNOR, Staff Writer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:42:00 EDT</pubDate>

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