CHARLEY MANN

PLACE OF WORSHIP: An artist's rendering of the transitional cathedral.

Construction will soon begin on a cardboard cathedral to temporarily replaceChrist Church Cathedral.

The designer, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, will turn the soil on the cathedral's planned site on the former parish of St John's, on the corner of Hereford St and Madras St, next week.

It is expected the 700-person-capacity structure will be completed by December.

Ban revealed his design last August, quoting the construction cost at $4 million.

Richard Gray, of the Transitional Cathedral Group, said the diocese had ''the bulk of the money ... in hand but there will be further fundraising to meet the costs of building the temporary structure''.

''This is a very exciting next step for the project,'' he said.

''The transitional cathedral is a symbol of hope for the future of this city as well as being sustainable and affordable.

''The cathedral is confident it will attract interest nationally and internationally, drawing additional visitors to the city."

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ISLE OF WIGHT A vandal went on a three-hour rampage across rural Isle of Wight County early Monday, setting vehicles ablaze, crashing into parked cars and mailboxes, and ramming a stolen van through a church gymnasium and a neighborhood store before setting that vehicle on fire.

Using tracking dogs, the Isle of Wight County deputies spent Monday afternoon searching the woods off Mill Swamp Road for the 16-year-old boy they considered a suspect in the crime spree, said Isle of Wight Sheriff's Capt. Rick Gaddis. The boy was brought into custody after 7 p.m. Monday evening. It was not immediately clear how or where he was arrested. He was not identified because he is a juvenile.

Less than a mile away from the site of the search, at Mill Swamp Baptist Church, three construction workers spent the day plugging two gaping holes in the church gymnasium's walls with plywood.

"We just don't understand it," said the Rev. Jim Jones, pastor at Mill Swamp. He pointed to tire tracks and a trail of anti-freeze marking the vandal's path: first crashing into a trailer and bus, backing up twice before ramming into the double doors leading into the church's gym and cutting path out the opposite wall of the large room.

Jones said the suspect named by deputies is a local teen who used to regularly attend the church's youth events.

"We're lucky this didn't happen during a service and that no one was hurt," Jones said.

Monday's events began to unfold around 3:30 a.m., when Isle of Wight Deputy Josh Dixon tried to pull over a gold Chevy pickup driving without headlights in the 600 block of West Main Street in Smithfield. Instead of stopping, the driver led police on a chase that ended on Great Springs Road with the driver fleeing into the woods on foot, Gaddis said.

According to Gaddis, a string of incidents followed over the next three hours. Two church vans at Sandy Mount Baptist Church, on Scotts Factory Road, and one at a nearby home were set on fire. Minutes later, a Dodge van was reported stolen from the 16000 block of Scotts Factory Road.

Next, the vandal's trail of destruction included hitting three parked vehicles and taking down five mailboxes along Raynor and Comet roads before slamming into the gym at Mill Swamp Baptist. After leaving the church, the van hit the side of the nearby Pons Store, at 7458 Mill Swamp Road, Gaddis said. Minutes later, the stolen Dodge was abandoned and found engulfed in flames nearby.

Although deputies have a detention order charging the juvenile with eluding police and failure to stop, no charges related to the vandalism have been filed yet, Gaddis said.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

TWO construction workers died Tuesday morning on their first day of work for the renovation of the Our Lady of Consolation Parish Church in Opol, Misamis Oriental.

Pentecostal pastor Vivencio Gadot, 63, and Ricky Carcueva, 19, both contractual workers of Jesey M. Rosario, were crushed when a 4X2-meter old wall they started to demolish collapsed.

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Gadot died on the spot after his head was crushed by the wall while Carcueva was rushed to the Northern Mindanao Medical Center but was pronounced dead on arrival by attending doctors due to internal hemorrhage.

Fr. Ronald H. Ledesma of the Our Lady of Consolation Parish said the incident happened around 7:30 a.m.

Gadot and Carcueva, along with eight other workers, were contracted by Rosario for 12 days to help in the renovation of the church.

Fr. Ledesma said the church paid the contractor P70,000 to demolish the existing two side walls of the old church and a portion of the right side of the front wall to allow dump trucks to pass through.

He said under the contract, the church will not be held liable in case something happens to the workers.

However, he said for humanity sake, the church shouldered the coffins and embalming of the victims.

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Firefighters work on the blaze at Corriher Heights Baptist Church on N.C. 153. Photo by Shelley Smith, Salisbury Post.

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CHINA GROVE When Corriher Heights Baptist Church was struck by lightning nearly a year ago, it was devastating, but the church rebounded and are looking forward to rebuilding.

The church, located at 1980 N.C. 153, was struck causing extensive damage in April, and immediately the church had offers from other churches to worship with them, but Pastor Chris Pethel had other plans.

The church cleared out their fellowship hall and began having church that following Sunday and every Sunday since.

New Grace Church of Concord donated some pews to the China Grove church.

On Saturday, members of the church gathered to break ground during an 11 a.m. service.

Weve been working on this since the church burned, Pethel said.

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SALISBURY, Pa.

A church renovation is complete, and the congregation celebrated its strength after overcoming a burglary and arson that halted construction in December.

It's been a long four months for the Oak Dale Mennonite Church in Salisbury.

The church had a lot to clean up, but said Palm Sunday marked a new beginning, in a new building.

"Wow, we can't believe it's come from this to this. It's an incredible transformation," Pastor Joe Byler said.

Hearing the reaction from the congregation was enough for Pastor Joe Byler.

Sunday marked the first service in the church since vandals broke in in December.

"The contractors told us it would be 4 to 6 months, so we're in about 2 months earlier than we first expected, which was very good," Byler said.

Where the scorched tables and chairs once stood, sits a new row of tables.

The graffiti and profanities written on the walls are now covered up with fresh paint.

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By Jerome Aning Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, PhilippinesThe resort town of Sagada in Mountain Province will finally have its first Roman Catholic Church whose construction is set to get underway this year, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippine said Friday.

The Sagada Catholic church will serve as the new center of the Vicariate of Bontoc-Lagawe.

In our desire to expand the Catholic presence in Sagada, we see the need to continue the construction of a shrine. The church will also provide a devotional destination for Catholic tourists who are looking for a church nearby where they can pray or celebrate the Eucharist, Fr. Pablo Lumiwan, Sagada Mission rector, was quoted by the CBCP as saying.

The ground breaking for the church was held in 2009 but its construction was delayed due to lack of funding.

A popular tourist destination, Sagada boasts of cloud covered mountains, pine forests, magnificent caves, graceful rice terraces and dramatic falls for adventure tourists to explore.

The dominant church in the mountain town is Episcopalian, whose first missionaries arrived in the area in 1907. Sagada is said to be 95-percent Episcopalian. The Episcopalian Church in the Philippines celebrated its centennial there in 2007.

On the other hand, the Catholic mission of the Vicariate of Bontoc-Lagawe is still confined to the far-flung Barangay of Kilong, which is a 30-minute drive from the town center.

Until now we still have no Catholic Church in the town proper for our Catholic tourists to visit or attend Masses, Lumiwan said.

A fund-raising concert in Manila has been set for May to augment the Sagada mission centers limited resources for the church-building project.

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Model display of Noah's ark as seen at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. The biblical apologetics ministry, Answers in Genesis, plans to build a life-sized replica of the ark in Williamstown, February 2012.

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Americans United for Separation of Church and State has denounced the project, which would provide $11.1 million for various improvements to KY 36, a highway that is near the site where Answers In Genesis' Ark Encounter Theme Park will be located.

Known as the "Ark Park," the theme park would showcase a life-size replica of Noah's Ark, built in the same dimensions described in the Genesis account of Noah's flood.

Alex Luchenitser, associate legal director for Americans United, told The Christian Post that his organization opposes the monetary expenditure over its apparent religious entanglements.

"The Highway-36 appropriation is intended to promote and support a religious, evangelical enterprise, violating the separation of church and state and the Kentucky Constitution's prohibitions on government support of religion," said Luchenitser.

"The KY-36 road project has only one purpose: to support the construction of the Ark Encounter Theme Park a proposed biblical theme park that would be in the shape of a full-size replica of Noah's Ark, using the dimensions set forth in the Bible."

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This week, the general Council of the Bucharest Municipality voted to allot EUR 2.5 million for the pharaohnic project of the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) to build the Nations Salvation Cathedral and another EUR 4 M for 47 churches and parishes throughout the Capital.Despite the many urgent problems of the city, from pollution to hygiene, sewage, insufficient number of schools, kindergartens and foster homes for retirees and homeless, Mayor Sorin Oprescu found it appropriate to give EUR 6.5 M to BOR. With the local elections drawing in, Oprescu like all Romanian politicians tries to draw upon himself the sympathy of the Orthodox Church, which retains a strong influence upon the electorate, especially in rural zones.Some figures are worth considering, if we want to understand how BOR has become the priority of our secular state, for many years.In 2011, BOR had incomes exceeding EUR 16 M and a profit of EUR 1.74 M, according to data recently posted by the Patriarchy on the internet site of the Finance Ministry.Yet, in 2011 BOR paid neither profit tax, nor property tax, not even the tax due for the land it owns, although it is the main landowner in Romania, and also no tax on commercial activities. We should remind, in the context, that BOR has a fabulous wealth estimated at more than EUR 3 bln, plus the value of forested lands it received back from the state, evaluated at EUR 2 bln about 2-3 pc of the total forested area at country scale which is also exempted from tax.The Church has fabulous real estate assets, with more than 17,000 churches, 600 monasteries, convents and other religious sites. Besides, the Church also controls 279 social sites, 275 museums and collections, and 42 preservation and storage centers.There are twice more churches than schools and hospitals in Romania. A survey conducted at the end of 2010 shows that, over the last two decades, 200 new churches were built each year in Romania, while the number of schools dwindled by 1,000 a year, and hospitals lost 4,000 beds each year.Well, in the country where more money is spent on religion than on health and education, nobody should wonder why the last two of them are in a serious state of decline and backwardness.We can see BOR as one of the most profitable institutions in Romania, although we might also consider it a business, because it obtains a profit. Yet, the secular state, the underfinanced and flexible state as it was called by President Basescu the state where social assistance is about to become history, sponsors the church with fabulous sums taken from public money. This is not only an act of defiance against the cash-strapped population that barely survives after two years of austerity, but also an attack against common sense and Christian teachings. Above all, Romania needs a moral reform, rather than megalomaniacal buildings that remind about the ephemeral existence of certain politicians or patriarchs. Incapable of guiding their believers towards spiritual cleanliness, the leaders of the Church get into prosperous business with the state, because the key of any successful business in Romania is doing business on public money.Judging by the number of churches and the clerical personnel over 55,000 (the Army has 75,000) paid 80 pc from the state budget (around EUR 65 M a year), one might reach the conclusion that the Romanian Orthodox Church has become the top priority of our secular republic.The works for the Cathedral whose construction is estimated at EUR 200 M began at the end of 2010. The cathedral will be built in the Byzantine Romanian style, will be 100 meters high, with a capacity of 5,000 people, and will withstand earthquakes above 8 on the Richter scale. The building will have 14 elevators and over 700 parking lots. The architectural complex of the church will include four separate buildings, along with the cathedral.It is hard to accept that money so necessary for the treatment of chronic patients, for hiring medical personnel a sector where Romania has a deficit of approximately 40 pc and for the recently enforced preparatory classes in schools, are spent instead on the salaries of priests (who should see religion as a vocation, a spiritual mission, rather than a source of material benefits) and on building churches at every corner. Unfortunately, the Orthodox Church goes through a crisis of morality, after turning into an institution that has little to do with religion and everything to do with the real estate industry.Last autumn, the Patriarchy announced that the Nations Salvation Cathedral will be partly financed from the state budget, and will rather relay on donations. In September 2011, over 36,000 people had donated to this regard.The donation generously made from the money of Bucharest inhabitants adds to the EUR 2.5 M donated in February 2011 by the government and to the EUR 1.3 M offered by the Mayors Office of District 3. When should we expect similarly generous donations for schools and hospitals, for the vulnerable people whose welfare benefits were cut by the flexible state? Most likely on Saint Tibs Eve.

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THE Vicariate of Bontoc-Lagawe will soon have its first Catholic church in Sagada as construction is set to begin this year.

The church will be built in Sagada town and will also serve as the new center of the Churchs mission in the area.

In our desire to expand the Catholic presence in Sagada, we see the need to continue the construction of a shrine, said Fr. Pablo Lumiwan, Sagada Mission Rector.

The church will also provide devotional destination for Catholic tourists who are looking for a church nearby where they can pray or celebrate the Eucharist, Lumiwan said.

The ground breaking for the church was held in 2009 but its construction was delayed due to lack of funding.

Organizers are hoping for a huge turnout for an upcoming fundraising concert in order to augment Sagada mission centers limited resources for the project.

The Sagada In My Mind concert will be held at the chapel of the University of Santo Tomas on May 4 in coordination with the USTs Santisimo Rosario Parish.

Performers include the renowned choir of Coro San Jacinto and Cagayan State University Ensemble under the baton of Fr. Ranhilio Aquino together with UST Symphony Orchestra.

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