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The full-scale Noah’s Ark replica at the Ark Encounter during a preview of the park on July 5, 2016, in Williamstown, Ky. At 510 feet long, 85 feet wide and 51 feet high, based on the measurements in cubits found in the first few chapters of Genesis, the ark is the largest timber-frame structure in the world, according to the Ark Encounter. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller
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Tourism officials suspend $18 million incentive for Noah’s Ark site over property transfer
Answers in Genesis, the group behind the Ark Encounter, disputes that a transfer of its property “created a default.”
Houses of worship do some soul-searching as their neighborhoods change
Buildings that once held worship services have been repurposed or bulldozed and redeveloped into bars, restaurants and other secular spaces.
In emerging partnership, retreat center aims to end social and economic isolation of inner-city children
The National Baptist Convention of America International has purchased property for what is said to be the only retreat and conference center in Kentucky run by African-Americans.
Opposition to metal detectors sets off chaotic Friday prayers in Jerusalem’s Old City
Three Palestinians were killed in in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and 190 people were injured.
When young Chinese ask, ‘What’s your sign?’ they don’t mean dragon or rat
China, the birthplace of the Chinese zodiac, has a new obsession: Western astrology. (Subscription may be required.)
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