First African Baptist Church will host a Spring Revival at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the church, 70 Beach City Road. The Rev. Kenneth White of Second African Baptist Church in Coosawatchie will preach.

BLUFFTON -- Lowcountry Presbyterian Church will be open for prayer from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every day during Lent, including Holy Week, April 10-15.

BLUFFTON -- May River Baptist Church is holding a Celebration of Grace Festival at the church, 3507 Okatie Hwy., at 1 p.m. March 25. The event will include food and music.

Graduates of Fordham University, as well as other Jesuit colleges and universities, are invited. Cost for brunch is $25 a person and a cash bar will be available.

The group, which has appeared locally at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Christ Lutheran Church and Hilton Head Christian Academy, will perform classical and contemporary choral literature. The singers also have toured across the United States and throughout Canada, Mexico, Poland, Hungary and Romania. They also have done volunteer work and impromptu concerts while on tour.

Congregation Beth Yam presents a Purim celebration, beginning with a light dinner at 6 p.m., followed by a Megillah reading at 7 p.m. Monday at Congregation Beth Yam, 4501 Meeting St.

ST. PAUL -- The archbishop of Minneapolis and St. Paul ordered a prominent conservative priest to stop posting his sermons on the Web and broadcasting them on Roman Catholic radio.

Such programs were required by U.S. bishops in response to cases of sex abuse by clergy, but some critics say they are too explicit and infringe on parents' role in teaching their children about sex, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.

Altier posted a message on his "A Voice in the Desert" Web site saying he would no longer post his homilies and presentations or broadcast them, in response to a written request from Archbishop Harry Flynn.

CALGARY, Alberta -- A grieving father says he will continue his fight against Jehovah's Witnesses and their prohibition of blood transfusions after a court decision partially cleared the way for a wrongful death lawsuit.

Lawrence Hughes filed the 2004 claim as executor of the estate of his daughter, Bethany, who died from acute leukemia in 2002 at age 17 after repeatedly refusing conventional treatment because of the faith's teaching.

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