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After nine people belonging to a Mormon offshoot community were killed in Mexico this week, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a short statement expressing sympathy for the victims while clarifying that they didn't belong to the mainstream church.

Led by controversial pastor Douglas Wilson, Christ Church of Moscow has for years been planning a spiritual takeover of the town — transforming both its politics and its soul. Wilson is gentle and soft-spoken when not behind the pulpit but will go head-to-head with anyone in a debate.

Faith Action Network (FAN), a statewide interfaith organization, will celebrate its second annual dinner in Spokane Nov. 10 at The Glover Mansion. The theme of this year’s event is Raising Our Voices, and will feature a keynote address by the Rev. Priscilla Paris-Austin, pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Seattle. …

Meyers, who has been a minister at the Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for 35 years, will be the headliner for the Common Ministry at Washington State University’s 39th Roger Williams Symposium in Pullman.

The most contested sections were the ones concerning the roles of the female diaconate (30 votes against), the viri probati — a discussion of ordaining married “men of proven virtue” to the priesthood — (41 votes against) and the creation of an Amazonian rite (29 votes against), each of which saw a larger number of the episcopacy voting against them.

At a “Spokane Loaves and Fishes,”event on Tuesday night at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist a panel of farmers, commercial fishermen, Northwest tribal members and activists discussed issues concerning the dams and salmon conservation on the Columbia-Snake River Basin.