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By The Associated Press -
Thursday, October 1
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TOPEKA, Kan. – Finding enough chaplains to minister to troops has become a difficult task.
The Kansas Air National Guard has two of its six chaplain positions unfilled, while the Kansas Army National Guard is faring worse with nine of 15 slots vacant.
Officials with the Kansas Army National Guard describe the high vacancy rate as typical of other Guard units across the country.
The Kansas Army National Guard says efforts to address the shortage, including a $10,000 sign-on bonus, $4,500 in tuition assistance and extending the age limit for new enlistees, have done little to help so far. The approaching retirement of many chaplains promises to compound the problem in the future.
The job of a military chaplain is to ensure that the spiritual needs of troops are met _ a task that involves leading religious services and Bible studies and providing individual counseling.
But a host of reasons are making recruitment a challenge, including the danger of serving in war-torn areas and the reluctance of churches to stick with pastors who are deployed for several months at a time.
The Rev. Don Davidson, rector of St. David's Episcopal Church in Topeka and the head of the Kansas National Guard's chaplain program, said the shortage has resulted in chaplains facing repeated deployments.
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East Idaho American Indian tribe denies housing project for religious group
FORT HALL, Idaho (AP) _ A tribe has denied a request by a religious group to build a dormitory-style building on the Fort Hall Reservation.
The Land Use Policy Commission of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes rejected a permit application from Joseph Ahlstrom of the Church of the Firstborn of Heaven to build a three-story, 18,000-square-foot building.
The commission told Ahlstrom in a letter that he was violating the laws and regulations of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes because the single-family residence he owns has about 30 people living on the property.
On its Web site, the Church of the Firstborn of Heaven said the sect was started by Terrill Dalton, who was excommunicated from the Mormon church.
The group's Web site said Dalton and sect leader Gregory Harman translated records from God that included references to plural marriage and instructions to tithe to Dalton.
In his application, Ahlstrom said the building would house a single family of 16 adults and 19 children. The group said its members are sealed to one another spiritually and thus form one family, meeting the tribe's requirement that the property remain a single-family residence.
But the tribe said the group's "beliefs are not consistent with the tribal law definition of what constitutes an immediate family or marriage."
Ahlstrom has 10 days to request a meeting with the commission. He can also appeal the decision to the Fort Hall Business Council or the tribal court.
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Greek court gives suspended sentences to rebel monks who refuse to leave monastery
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) _ A court has convicted a rebel abbot and 13 of his monks of obstructing the functioning of their 1,000-year-old monastery by refusing orders to leave it.
The 14 were given one-year suspended prison sentences, court officials in Thessaloniki said last week.
The occupants of Esphigmenou Monastery are in a bitter fight with Orthodox Christian authorities. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, has declared the rebels schismatic and ordered them out of the walled monastery on the autonomous Mount Athos peninsula in northern Greece.
The patriarch is backed by an older eviction order from Greece's top administrative court.
The monks oppose efforts to improve relations between the Orthodox Church and the Vatican.
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Bill proposed in DC would stop mourners from getting parking tickets during funerals
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Mourners in Washington would have one less thing on their minds at a funeral service under a proposed bill _ parking tickets.
A bill under consideration by the D.C. Council would exempt mourners from parking meter and residential parking restrictions for up to five hours if attending a funeral. Mourners' vehicles would have to be marked with placards provided by funeral organizers to get the exemption.
The measure would also prohibit parking by people not attending a funeral on streets adjacent to where a funeral is being held for five hours during and after the event.
Deacon Karen Coley at Zion Baptist Church says she has seen the problem of tickets first hand. The church has at least one funeral a week and has had problems with attendees getting tickets for parking for longer than the allotted two-hours, she said.
Some neighborhood leaders, however, say parking is already a problem and the bill would make it worse. Five hours is "outrageous and unacceptable," and it ignores the reality that parking is already "at such a premium," said Alex Padro, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Shaw, an area of the city that has 41 places of worship and a handful of funeral parlors.
"The suggestion that a person attending a funeral would be given a special class, I can't imagine anyone's going to be comfortable with that," Padro said.
Councilman Michael Brown, who introduced the bill, said it would not interfere with rush-hour restrictions or allow mourners to illegally park near hydrants. The measure was co-sponsored by four council members.
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Police investigate wave of vandalism targeting Portland churches; dozen hit so far
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ Portland police are investigating a wave of vandalism that's targeting local churches, though they say it appears only some of the cases are related.
At least a dozen churches have been hit in the past month. Two people were arrested in connection with vandalism in Southwest Portland, but the crimes have continued in Southeast Portland _ most recently at Waverly Heights United Church of Christ last week, when two bricks were thrown at the church, shattering a glass door.
The worse damage was at the Pilgrim Lutheran Church, which was hit twice earlier this month. Someone shoved a garden hose inside and flooded the church with 650 gallons of water, forcing the church to replace sheet rock. Police say the Southeast Portland cases could be related.
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