By Lena Khzouz The Ile Camera

The former Taylor School building, 3700 Benson Road, has been reconstructed to meet the needs of Community Bible Church.

Its time to share the news: Community Bible Church is here and ready.

The members of Community Bible Church in Trenton are welcoming visitors to a family fun event on July 12 in order to celebrate the churchs grand opening.

The carnival-like celebration, which will take place from 1 to 5 p.m., will feature a clown, bouncy houses, face painting, balloon art, games, outdoor activities, and foods such as hot dogs and popcorn. The hot dogs are among the donations from the Grosse Ile Kroger for the grand opening.

The churchs pastor, the Rev. Ken Brown, will offer tours of the building to interested visitors during the event.

Our hope is to offer them a beautiful day, filled with fun and opportunities for learning more about us, said Kim LaChappelle of Grosse Ile, who is a member of the church's outreach committee, as is her husband, Eugene.

The afternoon also will include a presentation by Carol Hendricks of the Trenton Historical Society of a time capsule that was found in the raptors of the building, which used to be the Taylor School.

The school building has been reconstructed to meet the needs of the church. The church members have been meeting in the building for about a year, but now the construction is almost complete.

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A local church is continuing its journey to fulfill the founding pastor's dream of a new house of worship.

The First United Pentecostal Church is hosting its third annual Fulfilling the Dream 5K to raise money for the new building's construction. The event will be held at Foxfire High School on July 26th. Those participating will have the option of running the 5K cross country course or walking1.5 mileson the track. Registration is at 8:00 a.m and the race begins at 9:00 a.m. Pastor John Cottrell said they are still looking for more participants.

"Last year we raised around$600 or $700if I remember correctly, and we'd like to have at least maybe 20 to 30 cross country runners, maybe even more," Cottrell said.

The new building will be located on the corner of Brighton Boulevard and Dryden road. The church hopes to build a new facility for the surrounding community and be able to better serve the congregation.

"The church, we've been in there for about 40 years now, but yet it has got multiple steps also," said Cottrell. "So it's hard for folks to come in that are wheelchair bound or have trouble with steps. We would like to have a place here where we can have one floor plan where anybody can make it into the house of the Lord and worship, and we want to impact our community also."

Registration costs just$20, and all proceeds will go toward the construction of the new church. You can find the registration forms for the 5K on the church's facebook page or simply email burley_28@msn.com.

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By Jovic Yee |Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines A World War II-era explosive device was unearthed at the compound of St. Jude Catholic Church in Malacaang Park, Manila, Monday afternoon.

Jefferson Larzan, a laborer of the Dynamic Construction Co., dug a heavily corroded 75-mm projectile while doing construction works at the church compound.

Arnold Santos, the chief of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Section of the Manila Police District, said that the bomb could still explode if not handled properly and cause damage to an area within a 20-meter radius.

The church compound, where a bell tower is being constructed in the area where the bomb was found, has been declared safe. However, theres still a possibility of other explosive devices buried in the compound. They should exercise caution and alert us if they spot suspicious objects, Santos said.

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LAKE PLACID After 15 years of prayer, discussion and study, a god-sized project is being built to serve as a blessing to the community, according to Rev. Ray Cameron, senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Placid.

The 20,000-plus-square-foot hall/center, with a total cost of over $2 million, is being built by the church, located at 118 N. Oak Ave.

We hope is will be a great blessing to the community with its size and events, Cameron said. Its huge for us.

Its a God-sized project. We dont think we could do it if God was not in it.

The official ground breaking was held on Palm Sunday (March 24), 2013 before the winter residents left, he said. But the actual construction started around late August/early September. Construction should be completed in the second quarter of 2015.

We see it as a building that will be used often in our community, Cameron said.

The building, which will be called The Genesis Center, will have a full kitchen and will accommodate 700 to 800 in the main auditorium and 500 to 550 for table settings.

A large foyer, which can be serviced by the kitchen, will be utilized for receptions, intermissions and overflow, Cameron said.

The center is being built as a venue for fine arts performances and music concerts and to encourage and foster the arts in Highlands County that historically has been something that the church has very much fostered, Cameron said.

The past two years the churchs youth have participated in fine arts competitions at the state level.

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LAC-MGANTIC Hundreds gathered in Lac-Mgantic on Sunday for a memorial mass to remember the 47 who died in a railway accident here last year.

As wind blew dust clouds past the church and through the construction site that has replaced the destroyed downtown here, firefighters, paramedics and police who responded to the explosion last year marched inside.

You have given us a beautiful message of dignity and strength. Yes, there have been tears and great suffering but at the same time there has been overwhelming generosity and love, Sherbrooke diocese archbishop Luc Cyr said, addressing the crowd inside the Ste-Agns church.

Amidst this individual and community destruction, there is a reconstruction to undergo, for the town and for us as individuals, Cyr said.

To each and every one of you: I urge you to keep your hope and faith. We will rebuild our town more beautiful than ever, Lac-Mgantic mayor Colette Roy-Laroche said after the mass.

Before the service, the town unveiled outside the church a monument to the victims a book carved in granite, inscribed with the names of the dead.

At the altar during the service, Cyr blessed Marie-Jose Rodrigue and Louis-Charles Lacroix and their six-month-old son Elliot. Lacroix and Rodrigue, who was pregnant with Elliot last July, narrowly escaped the accident.

We will never forget the victims, whose names are engraved in stone, but, at the same time, we know that life will triumph again in Lac-Mgantic, Quebec premier Philippe Couillard said, speaking before the crowd gathered outside the church.

The events of July 6, 2013, in Lac-Mgantic touched all Canadians deeply and no passage of time can erase from our consciousness the lives lost, the injured and the families torn apart by this tragedy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement on Sunday. On this sombre anniversary, let us pay tribute to their resilience, determination and extraordinary strength of character.

Governor General David Johnston, who attended a memorial mass held in the town shortly after the explosion last year, also spoke briefly after the mass on Sunday.

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Wednesday, July 2

Rotary Club of Eastern York County Wrightsville: 7 a.m. breakfast meeting, The Wrightsville House, 129 N. Front St., Wrightsville. hclideafactory@aol.com.

Parkinson's Exercise: for patient and caregiver, 1 to 2 p.m., New Fairview Church of the Brethren, 1873 New Fairview Church Road, York Township. This program is free; no registration required. Wear comfortable clothes; no experience necessary. 717-851-5503.

Red Lion Area High School Class of 1943: 8 a.m. breakfast, Lion's Pride, Dairyland Square.

Kids Under Construction: support group for children who have loved ones with cancer, 6:30 to 8 p.m., H.O.P.E. office, New Freedom Community Building, 150 E. Main. St., New Freedom. Transportation from Apple Hill Medical Center, Suite 188, Monument Road, York Township, can be provided if notified in advance. 717-227-2824.

Rivertownes PA U.S.A.: 7 p.m., Wrightsville House, Front and Locust streets, Wrightsville. 717-684-2489.

Red Lion/Dallastown Area Rotary Club: noon to 1 p.m., Great American Saloon, 20 Dairyland Square, Red Lion.

Cub Scout Pack 93: 6:30 to 7:45 p.m., Christ Lutheran Church, 80 S. Main St., Loganville. There are groups for first- through fifth-grade boys. 717-428-3312.

DivorceCare: a support group for those considering or experiencing divorce, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 397 Tyler Run Road, York Township. 717-854-4276.

Card Club: for York Township residents, noon to 3 p.m., York Township Park building. 717-741-3861, ext. 177.

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A church stands beside a busy highway in the southern Chinese city of Wenzhou, its steeple shrouded in construction tarp. Its cross is gone, unceremoniously removed. A short distance away another church, a gleaming new structure only barely finished, has been reduced by wrecking equipment to a crater of rubble in another hillside. Police stand in the pouring rain to keep visitors from driving down the road that passes by.

Across Zhejiang, the Chinese province where Wenzhou is located, Christians have counted at least 100 churches forced to make alterations, knock down wings or remove crosses in recent months. It is the most visible evidence of a renewed Chinese effort to restrict the spread of religion, and particularly Christianity, which had until recently flourished over a decade that saw China soften its enforcement of rules that outlaw anything that officially sanctioned worship.

The changes are visible across China, with Christians being detained, publishers facing sudden restrictions on printing new Christian books and rising concern among those whose faith is again placing them at renewed risk in a country often criticized for religiously-motivated human rights violations.

Its very worrisome, said Bob Fu, the founder of China Aid, a Texas-based group that advocates for Christian rights in China. Mr. Fu, who helped human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng leave China, said he has seen official documents that suggest the Chinese central government sees an imperative to, as he put it, contain the rapid growth of Christianity, or religion.

China is home to one of the worlds fastest-growing populations of Christians 67 million in 2010 (or 5 per cent of the population, compared with 18 per cent for Buddhism), according to the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project. At the time of the Communist revolution in 1949, there were an estimated four million Christians. At its current rate of expansion, China may one day be home to more Christians than any other nation.

Underground churches and seminaries so-called because they are unofficial and operate in a legal grey zone have in recent years flourished in plain sight, some occupying large office buildings and welcoming parishioners by the many hundreds.

But the past year has seen China clamp down on free speech and lock up hundreds of prominent online critics and human rights lawyers. That effort is now expanding to religion, in a campaign that now threatens a much larger segment of the countrys population.

In May, Zhang Chunxian, the Communist Party chief in Chinas far western Xinjiang territory, pledged strengthened management of religious affairs in accordance with the law, according the state-run Xinhua news agency. Those remarks were seen as opening a round of new crackdowns on Muslims in that region. However, it has become clear that they also gave voice to a broader effort to regulate religion nation-wide.

Many attribute the changes to Xi Jinping, who has waged a broad battle since becoming president a year ago on any force he sees as potentially threatening to the rule of the Communist Party.

We can see that the new central government is really much more controlling, said Max, a former pastor who asked to be identified only by his English first name for fear of repercussions as he remains an active Christian outreach worker.

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In response to recent shootings in North Huntsville, the Union Chapel Missionary Baptist Church held an event to curb gun violence Friday.

The church teamed up with the Madison County Sheriff's Department to host a gun buyback Friday and Saturday. Officials said people can drop off guns between 9 a.m. and noon in exchange for a $50 credit card. The department said it was a "no questions asked" situation.

Senior Pastor O. Wendell Davis helped organize the event and said the church has been hit hard by violence, particularly the recent death of Ashia Oliver. Ashia's family members attended the event and said seeing the community come together to try and end violence gives meaning to Ashia's death.

"He didn't just take her away to take her away," cousin Acayycee Crutcher said. "He took her away to wake up Huntsville. The grieving is going to come, but we're smiling now. Just look at what's going on."

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Two road construction projects will close one road and shut off a lane of traffic in Saline County.

Old Illinois 13 West,between Hankins Road and one-half mile west of Carrier Mills Road,will be closed from July 7 to Sept. 12 for a bridge replacement west of Bankston Church Road.

Another road construction project from Raleigh Road to the American Coal mine on Illinois 34 North will close July 7 to Aug. 17 the north-bound lanes of Illinois 34. Northbound traffic will be detoured along Illinois 13 West to Harco Road.

Harco Road has a weight restriction of 20 tons, so vehicles over 20 tons will need to choose another route.

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Father Paul Williams leads Wednesday Mass at the Saint Joseph's Catholic Church in Dalton.

Seen Wednesday on North Hamilton Street in downtown Dalton, the Capilla Inspiracion, a satellite of the Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, offers services in this former funeral home building.

Number of Catholics in Dalton: 17,459

Percentage of Dalton residents who are Hispanic: 48 percent

Weekend church attendance for St. Josephs Catholic Church in Dalton: 5,000 to 7,000

Church attendance at St. Toribio Romo in Chatsworth, Ga.: 900

Attendance at Capilla Inspiracion, a Guatemalan mission in downtown Dalton: 200

U.S. Catholic Church membership in 2011: 68.5 million.

Southern Baptist Convention in 2011: 16.1 million.

Sources: Association of Religion Data Archives, U.S. Census, St. Josephs Catholic Church, National Council of Churches

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