(MUSIC IN A CHURCH) In a church where Martin Luther King preached more than 50 years ago, President Obama talked about the past, the present and the future.

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

I suddenly realized I was in this absurd situation: I am an amateur baker, I hadn't been in a church in years, I barely speak French, and found myself going over to try to restore the lost 1300-year-old tradition of baking at the abbey."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

In eighteen thirty-five, the Methodist Church held a group camp meeting in what was to become the town of Oak Bluffs.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

He leads a big church in California and has sold millions of copies of books about "The Purpose Driven Life."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

For example, in April of two thousand five, top church officials held a historic meeting in this center for prayer.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

As a result,in nineteen sixty-nine, the church removed Saint Valentine's Day from its official worldwide calendar of Catholic feasts.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Three former American presidents were among the mourners who attended his funeral at a Catholic church in Boston.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Frank Kurimsky is the priest at a Roman Catholic church in Oakmont,Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

They were given the names by a visiting Christian church leader in nineteen sixteen.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Leone is full of churches, including the first on the island, a Congregational church founded by a British missionary in the 1800s.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Twal,a Jordanian who heads the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, said the Israeli occupation must end.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The cathedral church that Hillary and I sat in 34 years ago is a total rubble.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

In the seaside village,Leone, others filled Holy Cross Catholic church for a more somber service.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

They prayed in a Pentecostal church on a mountainside outside the city of Pago Pago.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

It is a community haunted by its past. In April 1999,Indonesian soldiers and Timorese militias stormed into the village church, where 2,000 residents had sought refuge.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07