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Church damaged by early morning explosion
Newsday.com-AP regional ^ | 9-10-2004 | unknown

Posted on 09/10/2004 5:55:21 AM PDT by nyconse

COLCHESTER, Conn. -- A church in Colchester was leveled by an explosion Friday morning. St. Mary's Ukrainian Church on Route 16, also known as Linwood Ave., was flattened by the explosion just before 7 a.m., according to state police. State police spokesman, Sgt. J. Paul Vance, said the area had been cordoned off and the highway was shut down in both directions. Vance said there was no initial report of injuries and there was no immediate indication of what caused the explosion. The state fire marshal was called to the scene as well utility company crews.

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To: NYer; FormerLib; katnip; Salvation; Honorary Serb; kosta50; monkfan; Destro
An Orthodox church, according to this listing. Link

Unbelieveable.

61 posted on 09/10/2004 6:46:16 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: devolve; dennisw; SJackson; MeekOneGOP; TrueBeliever9; Geist Krieger; JohnHuang2; Salem; Sanch; ...

2 much adding up 2 fast for this to be an "accident" - I smell a camel's ass - Onward Muslim Soldier - ping.


62 posted on 09/10/2004 6:46:17 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Jihad - coming to a school near you - 55 days until November 2nd - 9/11 is this Saturday.)
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To: MarMema

Ukranian Catholic...I taught in Ukranian Prep School...they are Roman but have special rights: priest can marry (but only if they return to Ukraine)....Ukaranian Christian are not popular with the TROP to say the least.


63 posted on 09/10/2004 6:47:08 AM PDT by nyconse
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To: nyconse

An Orthodox church, apparently. The people in Beslan were Russian Orthodox, but closely related to these Ukrainian Orthodox.


64 posted on 09/10/2004 6:47:52 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: Happy2BMe

BTTT


65 posted on 09/10/2004 6:48:39 AM PDT by ChefKeith (Life is GREAT with CoCo..........NASCAR...everything else is just a game!(Except War & Love))
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To: MarMema
It's my understanding that during the middle ages Ukrainian Catholic church reconciled with Rome, the Orthodox Churches came from those who would not go back to Roman Catholocism-very closely related.
66 posted on 09/10/2004 6:49:45 AM PDT by nyconse
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To: nyconse
Ukranian Catholic.

Looks like Orthodox, rather than Catholic, by the listing.

67 posted on 09/10/2004 6:49:49 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: nyconse

FoxNews showed a helicopter view.

The building lay in wood rubble, but there didn't appear to be any signs of fire or smoke (and the explosion happened only 2 hours earlier).

It looked more like the aftermath of a tornado.


68 posted on 09/10/2004 6:49:56 AM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: TomGuy

A gas explosion? I have no expertise in this sort of thing.


69 posted on 09/10/2004 6:50:46 AM PDT by nyconse
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To: nyconse

That's old news. Likely college age kids with an agenda!


70 posted on 09/10/2004 6:51:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: MarMema

No Ukranian Catholic are part of Roman Catholic Church...reconciled after a long break from Rome...Orthodox never went back to Roman Catholicism...Ukranian Catholic are allowed communion and some special rights (priests marry in Russia and Ukraine).


71 posted on 09/10/2004 6:52:40 AM PDT by nyconse
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very closely related.

The Catholics like to think so but we believe differently. :-)

72 posted on 09/10/2004 6:52:51 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema

I stand corrected...mea culpa.


73 posted on 09/10/2004 6:53:39 AM PDT by nyconse
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To: nyconse

I'm just outside of Hartford area which is about 30 minutes from Colchester and have the local radio station turned on. They have updates every ten minutes so I'll keep you folks up to date. They're not letting the news media or anyone else near the site. Again, no injuries or other damage.....the building is rubble and seems to have imploded.


74 posted on 09/10/2004 6:53:46 AM PDT by bertmerc1
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To: Guenevere; All
Keep your nose to the ground folks, 9/11 is Saturday.

These bastards love being sentimental about dates.

75 posted on 09/10/2004 6:54:08 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Jihad - coming to a school near you - 55 days until November 2nd - 9/11 is this Saturday.)
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To: bertmerc1

Thanks...keep us posted. LOL


76 posted on 09/10/2004 6:54:18 AM PDT by nyconse
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To: devolve
We should call in the NAACP from St. Louis and the ACLU from NYC and that creep at the Southern Poverty Law Center to prove this was just an accidental explosion that leveled this Russian Christian church with no evidence of any sleeper A-Q converts in prisons involved.

SPLC is too busy smearing poor southern whites to bother with al-Qaeda.

77 posted on 09/10/2004 6:59:10 AM PDT by Old Sarge (ZOT 'em all, let MOD sort 'em out!)
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To: nyconse

My sister lives in Colchester, Ill post more if I can learn more


78 posted on 09/10/2004 7:00:27 AM PDT by RaceBannon (KERRY FLED . . . WHILE GOOD MEN BLED!!)
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To: nyconse
Ukranian Catholic are allowed communion and some special rights, priests marry

Yes, because they came from us. We call them the Uniates.

79 posted on 09/10/2004 7:00:59 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: RaceBannon

Please do. I would be very interested in what was behind this. We're good at burning down our churches, in truth, but not usually explosions.


80 posted on 09/10/2004 7:01:52 AM PDT by MarMema
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