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Firefighters rescue woman from sidewalk collapse outside Dorchester church
Local News The woman fell about 10 feet below street level into the church’s basement. She broke her leg in the fall. The sidewalk collapsed outside Bethlehem Temple Healing Church in Dorchester late Friday night. Boston Fire Department Boston firefighters rescued a woman who fell 10 feet after the sidewalk outside a Dorchester church collapsed […]
Two 12-year-olds charged in daytime vandalism of East Bridgewater Catholic church
Local News A fire was set near the church’s altar and items stolen from the food pantry. A fire was set Friday at St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church in East Bridgewater. Yellow fire retardant powder stains the cloth covering the altar. Courtesy/East Bridgewater Police Department Two 12-year-olds are facing a handful of charges in […]
Police investigate after fire set at East Bridgewater Catholic church
Local News Vandals set a fire at the church’s altar and made off with items from the food pantry Friday, officials say. A fire was set Friday at St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church in East Bridgewater. Yellow fire retardant powder stains the cloth covering the altar. Courtesy/East Bridgewater Police Department East Bridgewater police and […]
302-year-old gold rooster weathervane atop Cambridge church will be taken down
Local News “Drone videos revealed there is significant and dangerous erosion of the gilding on one side of the cockerel, especially its large tail feathers.” Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe, File For more than a hundred years, a gilded cockerel has greeted the sun high above the Cambridge Common. But the era of […]
Things to know about the Vatican’s big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church
World News For the first time, women and laypeople can vote on specific proposals alongside bishops, a radical change that is evidence of Francis’ belief that the church is more about its flock than its shepherds. Pope Francis, left, looks at representatives of the synod, refugees, and the vulnerable laying out a symbolic “river” as a […]