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[church] / tʃɜrtʃ /




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We bought pie from church ladies, high-school clubs, a state-fair blue-ribbon winner.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

The Church of Scotland has agreed to sell the church to the community if it can raise the £50,000 required by the deadline.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

For a couple of years, Trinidad juggled barber college, work at FedEx and missionary work through his L.A. church, Iglesia De Jesucristo.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

And yet, like many Ixil families in the decades since the genocide, the family had also joined an evangelical church.

From Salon Sep. 1, 2026

The roads were graveled and pretty good between the church and our place, and it was getting past the heat of the day.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Even after the reforms that reopened churches and temples in the 1980s, religion has remained something the state permits—and can always revoke.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Many churches are deeply entwined with groups that received significant funds from USAID.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Many churches believe God has a divine plan for the end of everything.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The Rev Paul Cawthorne, priest in charge of churches in the Hadnall area, is also a long time environmental campaigner.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

At the three New London churches, there was a funeral every fifteen or thirty minutes from nine o’clock in the morning until after eight.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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