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    Northern California Jehovah's Witnesses is coming to Sacramento in the largest convention booking in the city's history

    By Dale Kasler dkasler@sacbee.com A wave of Northern California Jehovah’s Witnesses is coming to Sacramento in the largest convention booking in the city’s history. For eight weekends a year starting next summer, up to 6,000 delegates will bring a measure of relief to the region’s recession-weary hotels and restaurants. The five-year run is expected to [...]

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    Linda Darnell Brown fell asleep in death

    CRISFIELD — Linda Darnell Brown fell asleep in death on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, in Towson, Md. She was born March 30, 1948, in Neptune, N.J., to the late Solomon and Juanita Scott.  As a young person, Linda developed a great love for Jehovah God and was baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses on March [...]

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    KAZAKHSTAN: "Such preaching is prohibited by our law"

    Within hours of arriving in the town of Uspen to visit a local Christian and set up a local congregation, police broke into the house where members of the Pavlodar Grace Church were staying, church members told Forum 18 News Service. One visitor was questioned and a local woman the visitors had prayed with was [...]

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    Swine flu may hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the U.S.

    Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Swine flu may hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the U.S. this year, filling intensive care units to capacity and causing “severe disruptions” during a fall resurgence, scientific advisers to the White House warned. Swine flu, also known as H1N1, may infect as much as half of the population and kill 30,000 [...]

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