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A former Mormon bishop in Riverside County is expected to serve three years in prison for sexually assaulting two teenage girls who attended a Menifee church, prosecutors said. Todd Mitchell Edwards, 49, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts related to the assault of the teens, ages 16 and 18, as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney's office. The counts were sexual battery and sexual penetration with a foreign object. In addition to the prison time, Edwards will also have to register as a lifetime sex offender as part...

2009-03-10 18:40:00Obama fail to escape the Justice of Heaven for allowing the use of stem cells, the priest thinks Moscow, March 10, Interfax - The US President will be held accountable to God for lifting limits on stem cell research, Hieromonk Dimitry (Pershin) believes. "The democratic president has brought American science back to extensive development. It is not inconceivable that the world will hold another Nuremberg Trial to condemn the destruction of human lives at the embryonic stage of development. But even Obama is unable to escape the Heaven, and the Heaven holds Judgment," Fr. Dimitry, Chairman of the...

The End of Hostility? By Aleksandr Soldatov The Moscow News According to the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), the pope hindered mutual respect and brotherly love between the Catholic Church and the ROC I hope that the forthcoming new period in the life of the Roman Catholic Church will help renew the relations of mutual respect and brotherly Christian love between our churches," Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II wrote in a letter of condolence to Rome several hours after John Paul II's death. It is difficult not to read into this condolence message a critical note in regard...