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Strawberry festival is Sunday Cresson Presbyterian Church, Keystone Avenue and Third Street, will host its strawberry festival from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June 7. Items are available for eat in or take out. Kids Camp offered Altoona Alliance Church will host Kids Camp from 6 to 8 p.m. June 8-11. Kids Camp is geared for children ages 4 through 5th grade. The theme this year is “Backwards Birthday Bash – Christmas in June.” To register or find more information, visit altoonaalliancechurch.com or call the church at 814-944-0171. Bible adventure camp open Bible adventure ...

Priest demoted after UFO, demon comments

The Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy, on Wednesday removed a well-known priest as an exorcist of the archdiocese after he made public comments suggesting that UFO sightings were the work of demons. McElroy said the archdiocese also was cutting ties with the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal, a Washington-based nonprofit headed by the priest, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti. The archbishop said Rossetti’s statements “linking UFOs to demonic presence and the Center’s recent use of social media gravely undermine the Church’s very precise ...

Spiritual notes: Saturate Altoona set for June

The sixth annual Saturate Altoona will be held all four Sunday nights in June at Heritage Plaza in downtown Altoona. From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. there will be blessing booths by area churches and ministries giving out food and refreshments. At 6:30 p.m., there will be a worship service with music, testimonies, prayer and a message by pastors or ministry leaders in the 814 area. A prayer tent will be staffed each evening for anyone wanting someone to pray for them. The theme for this year’s Saturate Altoona event is “On Mission With Jesus - by living a win/build/equip/multiply/send ...

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Yard, bake sale Altoona Restoration Church of God, 911 N. Third Street, Altoona, will hold its annual spring yard sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 23. This yard sale is by donation. There will be clothes, household items, furniture, toys and more. There will also be a bake sale with various items for purchase. Blueberry orders accepted The Mission Central HUB is hosting a blueberry fundraiser to help with rent, utilities and kit supplies. The cost is $35 for 10 pounds, about 13.5 pints. The blueberries are picked up 24 hours prior to delivery from New Jersey. The HUB has ...

Holy Name hosts former mafia boss

A notorious 1980s mobster turned motivational speaker is coming to Holy Name Catholic Church at 7:30 p.m. May 4 to speak about his conversion to Christianity. Known as the Prince of the Mafia, Michael Franzese, 74, was involved in a scheme to defraud the government out of gasoline taxes made in Manhattan, where his crew pocketed nine cents per gallon. Franzese pocketed up to $8 million per week from the arrangement. Fortune Magazine ranked Franzese as number 18 on its list of “Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia Bosses” in 1986, while Vanity Fair listed Franzese as one of the ...