World AIDS Day events planned in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Langston 9 hr ago | Add a comment Several events are planned in Oklahoma today to recognize World AIDS Day. In Oklahoma City, the annual World AIDS Day Memorial Service will be at 7 p.m. at the Mayflower Congregational Church,...

Tulsa congregation votes to buy back property 11 hr ago | Add a comment TULSA -- The congregation of a Tulsa church that split with its denomination two years ago has agreed to buy back its property that it previously lost in a court battle. The congregation of Kirk...

Famed Mormon Tabernacle choir to perform in Norman Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | Comments 1 NORMAN — The famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir comes to the Lloyd Noble Center at 7:30 p.m. June 27. Tickets go on sale Dec. 5 at the University of Oklahoma Athletic Ticket Office, 1185 Asp Ave.,...

Chickasha center helping coordinate aid programs Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | Add a comment CHICKASHA — Mayor Greg Elliott and area pastors meet monthly at a local church to share a meal and talk about various issues affecting their Grady County community. Out of those monthly...

In the news: Muslims making Mecca journey Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | Add a comment Muslims making Mecca journey Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca, is one of the five pillars of Islamic faith. Muslims who are financially and physically able are required to make the pilgrimage at least...

Focus on Family to cut staff, four publications because of economy Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | Add a comment The Colorado-based Focus on the Family will reduce its staff by about 200 positions, citing economic conditions. "There’s still a great demand for the resources we offer,” Focus...

Oklahoma churches question texting Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | Add a comment This is my text-imony: As for me and my house, we don’t text-message in church. There are folks who do — that is until recently when the pastor prohibited cell phone use during...

Iowa college stages scary Bible stories Thu, Nov 27, 2008 | Add a comment DES MOINES, Iowa — Don’t expect to hear these Bible stories at church. Cannibalism, rape, a bear that mauls children — this is the Bible? They’re among six stories from the...

Protesters call for closing of Georgia military school Sun, Nov 23, 2008 | Add a comment COLUMBUS, Ga. — Demonstrators renewed their call Sunday to shutter a school on a Georgia Army base for Latin American military and government officials, and say they’re optimistic the...

Oklahoma Deaths: Monday, November 24, 2008 Sun, Nov 23, 2008 | Add a comment BARTLESVILLE Fletcher, Jacqueline Dee, 69, retired business owner, died Friday. Private services (Stumpff, Bartlesville). Wood, Patricia Stewart, 87, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m....

IN BRIEF: Pope considers change in mass Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Add a comment EUROPE POPE CONSIDERS CHANGe in MASS VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is considering a change to the Mass liturgy, said Cardinal Francis Arinze, who heads the Vatican office for sacraments....

Going on: Free Will Baptists plan Thanksgiving service Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Add a comment Free Will Baptists plan Thanksgiving service The First Oklahoma Association of Free Will Baptist Churches will hold a Thanksgiving Praise Service at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Northwest Free Will Baptist...

Priest under fire after ordination of woman Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Comments 3 NEW ORLEANS — A missionary priest from Lutcher, La., appears to be on the brink of excommunication from the Catholic church for participating in a ceremony that purportedly ordained a woman...

Oklahoma students vow to fight violence Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Add a comment Teasing, gossip, bullying and name-calling are root causes of violence among today’s youths, a coordinator for a group trying to curb violent acts in Oklahoma’s schools said Tuesday....

Winter Wonder Slam event brings Christian musicians Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Add a comment The Winter Wonder Slam concert featuring tobyMac will be at 6 p.m. Nov. 23 at Cox Convention Center, 100 W Reno. The contemporary Christian recording artist will be joined on the tour by Relient...

WORLD LEADERS: New Castro photo surfaces Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Add a comment New Castro photo surfaces Fidel Castro, left above, looks thin and frail but alert in a photograph made available Thursday by the Russian Orthodox Church. The 82-year-old former president of Cuba...

Oscar contenders may be shunned Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Add a comment LOS ANGELES — Not long before he’s assassinated, Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk proclaims his key precept for social change: "You gotta give ‘em hope.” Hope is often...

Shamed pastor claims abuse Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Add a comment COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Disgraced evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says he was sexually abused as a child and that the experience "started to rage in my mind and in my heart” when...

Oklahoma Deaths: Thursday, November 13, 2008 Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Comments 1 ADA Rogers, Bernice, 90, died Tuesday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Pryor Chapel, Stuart (Smith-Phillips, Ada). ATOKA Wells, Juanita, 62, died Nov. 5. Services 3 p.m. today, Centerpoint Christian...

Southern Baptist leader in Broken Arrow plans an awakening Tue, Nov 11, 2008 | Comments 8 BROKEN ARROW — The Rev. Emerson Falls on Tuesday became the first American Indian to be elected president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. Falls, 60, called the win "a...