Drawing the connection between war and faith, Briganti said his Easter Sunday services beckoned the largest crowd he had seen in three decades.
And at least one pro-hunting clergyman has cancelled his normal Sunday services so that his parishioners will not have to choose between God and mammal.
While church officials insist that the building's feathery features are coincidental, the church still welcomes visitors to its Sunday services if tourists decide that snapping shots is for the birds.
The prime minister has been critical of the way protesters set up camp outside St Paul's - which temporarily closed, cancelling Sunday services for the first time since the Blitz in 1941, saying that the camp posed a health and safety risk, and has seen several high profile resignations over the camp.
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Soon Lance was conducting Sunday worship services for a small group of poor Latinos at the diocesan headquarters.
Some residents seeking comfort in church services Sunday at St.
Boston's historic Trinity Church could not host services Sunday because it was within the crime scene, but the congregation was invited to worship at the Temple Israel synagogue instead.
Black churchgoers, of course, often do the same thing at Sunday-morning services, and I suspect that the amenlike responses of black theatergoers are a not-so-distant echo of that old-time religion.
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In sports-mad Texas, where Friday-night football is nearly as sacred as Sunday morning church services, one rural school district is taking the once-unthinkable step of shutting down its high-school sports program.
The reduction in subsidies would mean fewer Sunday and evening bus services on some rural routes.
Following radical Presbyterian reform, the islanders became deeply religious, with card games, music and dancing forbidden, and three compulsory services every Sunday.
Mr Webster will lead services on Sunday when he expects more than the usual 200 worshippers to turn up to pray.
London Midland said it planned to operate all timetabled services on Sunday.
Southeastern said it experienced delays to a number of services on Sunday and Southern Rail said it would be running an amended timetable for Monday.
On a recent Sunday morning, after services at the tiny Lebanon Lutheran Church in Amidon, local farmers talked about their plight with a mixture of exasperation and faint hope.
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All three Welsh fire and rescue services on Sunday morning said they had not been called to any further incidents so far and Environment Agency Wales said flooding had stabilised.
On Sunday, regular morning services will be held at St Giles' Cathedral and Greyfriars Tolbooth, and a free public event showcasing the "best of the Church of Scotland" is to start at 1300 BST in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens.
The figures include attendance during the week and are not therefore exclusive to religious services on a Sunday morning.
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Activists fanned out to Hispanic church services this past Sunday to promote turnout.
The United Arab Emirates threatened on Sunday to ban some Blackberry services.
Easter services conclude on Sunday with a Mass celebrating Jesus' resurrection.
Then on Sunday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that a public option is "not an essential element" of overhauling the health care system.
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At the farming village of Longquan, where all the houses were damaged and some destroyed in the community of about 300 people, rescuers had arrived to collect the bodies of three dead, but had not yet provided other services as of Sunday midday, villagers said.
Sunday morning, she will lead services at the cathedral, which is affiliated with the Church of Scotland.
Christians in one of Baghdad's most hotly contested neighborhoods cautiously ventured out today to attend services for the first Sunday of Advent.
Talking of Sundays and next Sunday this week church-goers all over the world will celebrate Easter with services on Good Friday and of course on Easter Sunday marking one of the most sacred days in the Christian calendar.
The unit, at Bath's Royal National Hospital, shut on Sunday following a drop in demand for services.
"On Sunday and Monday we expect very few services to be affected, probably about six on each day, " she said.
The Vatican has said it wants to have the next pontiff in place for the week of services leading up to Easter Sunday on March 31.
The Holy Week services will culminate on Easter Sunday with the pope's first "Urbi et Orbi" blessing, directed to the city of Rome and to the world.
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