EULESS, Texas (AP) - A Santeria priest has filed an appeal in federal court after he lost his religious-freedom challenge to a city ban on animal slaughter.

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Indiana religious order giving up its monastery
The shrinking number of women called to Roman Catholic religious vocations has caught up with the Carmelite Sisters of Indianapolis. They're giving up their monastery and moving in with another order 60 miles away.

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Kansas pastor-congressman will take diminished role in his church
 Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat who is also a Methodist minister, says he will be taking a smaller role at the church he has led for more than 35 years.