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Getting ready to soar
Between 800,000 and 850,000 people are expected in Albuquerque for the nine-day International Balloon Fiesta. And Saturday three waves of balloons soared from the field just after dawn while tens of thousands of people watched from below. More than 600 balloons like the one pictured as it was being filled are registered for this year’s fiesta. It will also serve as the starting point for a cross-country gas balloon race that’s expected to start Monday. |
Published: Saturday, October 4, 2008 10:51 PM MST
From The Associated Press
5 new temples planned for Mormon church
SALT LAKE CITY—Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson said Saturday the church has plans to build five new temples worldwide, three abroad and two in the United States.
The temples are planned for Calgary, Canada; Cordoba, Argentina; Rome, Italy; Philadelphia and in the greater Kansas City, Mo. area.
Monson’s announcement came as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened its two-day semiannual General Conference.
Episcopal diocese OKs split over Bible, gays
MONROEVILLE, Pa.—Clergy and lay members of the theologically conservative Pittsburgh diocese voted overwhelmingly Saturday to break from the liberal Episcopal Church, with which it differs on issues ranging from homosexuality to biblical teachings on salvation.
Assistant Bishop Henry Scriven said the vote means the Pittsburgh diocese is now more firmly aligned with the majority of the 77 million-member worldwide Anglican Communion, which is more conservative than the communion’s 2.2 million-member U.S. church.
The Diocese of San Joaquin, based in Fresno, Calif., was the first to leave the national church, in 2006.
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