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CHARLOTTE — TV reruns starring Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker? “Best of PTL” DVDs?
Either could happen, said an Atlanta investment banker who plans to sell 15,000 hours of original videotapes from the old PTL Club TV shows at an auction next month.
Ben Dyer, president of Gospel Properties, said he has heard from several possible bidders. [...]

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LOS ANGELES — Christians throughout the Southland are observing Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, when the faithful prepare for Easter by doing penance for sins and seek spiritual renewal through prayer, self-denial and good works.
Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes of the foreheads of the faithful as a [...]

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On Ash Wednesday, New York’s new Archbishop Timothy Dolan sat down with NY1’s Dean Meminger for an interview to discuss the issues facing New York’s Catholic Church.
“I’m very honored and grateful. But that doesn’t mask for a second that it is going to be tough leaving. There is some penance, some dying in that,” said [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Praise the Lord and pass the tape recorder.
“This Beautiful City” is a lively docudrama — complete with countrified musical numbers — that examines America’s homegrown evangelical movement.
Members of the Civilians, a New York-based theater troupe, traveled to Colorado Springs, the geographic heart of American evangelicalism, to interview members of the movement [...]

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GULF SHORES, Ala. (ABP) — The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention declined to press criminal embezzlement charges in 2005 against a man now accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in an Alabama insurance scam.
Benton Gray Harvey and an accomplice are suspected of scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars from residents [...]

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