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Breakfast supports missions Raystown Brethren Church will serve up a breakfast buffet from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday, June 20, to help support the church’s missions team. Cost of the meal is by donation. The menu includes pancakes and syrup, scrambled eggs, omelets, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, fresh fruit, pastries, coffee, juice and milk. The church is at 129 Winterberry Lane in Saxton. Free lunch offered Providence Presbyterian Church, 2401 Broad Ave., Altoona, will serve a free lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Lunch will include a meatball sandwich on a ...

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Youth orchestra to perform The Clearfield Youth Orchestra will perform at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, June 14, in the sanctuary of the Presbyterian Church of Clearfield. The concert will feature a selection of pastoral works by both modern and classical composers, including an arrangement of the beloved Peer Gynt Suite, featuring familiar melodies that audiences are sure to recognize and enjoy. The Clearfield Youth Orchestra is a student-run ensemble dedicated to providing young musicians with opportunities to continue developing their talents beyond the school year. Under the direction of Evan ...

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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 ...