But for both of them, the real adoption ceremony took place at the Mount Calvary Baptist Church in northern Virginia.

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The wedding took place at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea with nearly 300 guests in attendance, including Tiger Woods, Patrick Ewing, Spike Lee and Ahmad Rashad.

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The memorial service took place in Dunster's Priory Church in Somerset.

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The funeral took place at All Saints Church in Merton.

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The service took place at St Andrew's Church in Plymouth with many pupils from his school, Stoke Damerel Community College, performing at the service.

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It's intriguing that the Church decision took place where Santa Anna defeated the Alamo's defenders in 1836.

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But if Mr Aquino seems ready to confront the church on this issue, he has tiptoed around a disaster that took place in August after a disgraced former police officer hijacked a tourist bus in Manila.

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In the Catholic Church, perhaps the worst of the sexual scandal reported outside of the Irish fiasco took place within the secretive, almost cult-like, Legion of Christ.

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