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Antioch Church, Brookwood, will hold Old-Fashioned Day on Oct. 15, 10:30 a.m. Legacy will perform special music. Church members are encouraged to dress in period clothing. Antioch Church also will hold an ordination ceremony for James Riley on Oct. 8. He and his wife, Clara, have three children and have been members for almost two years. Dwight Kizziah is pastor.
Between Aug. 9 and Sept. 5, more than 30 Christians were killed in one state in Nigeria, a country that has for some time led the world in the number of believers slain for their faith.
Franklin Lee Kirksey, former pastor of churches in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, died Sept. 11. He was 64.
A Pakistani Christian was fatally shot for rebuffing the advances of a male neighbor.
A Ugandan man was hospitalized for a week after his adult sons attacked and beat him for putting his faith in Jesus Christ.
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