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Isaac Cole and Mikayla Lynn will give a concert on the lawn beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Petroleum Valley Youth Center Amphitheater, a half-mile east of Chicora on Magnolia Road. Take a lawn chair or blanket. A freewill offering will be received.

In case of bad weather, the concert will be at Chicora Alliance Church, 310 E. Slippery Rock St.

For more information, call 724-445-3220.

The Holy Hour for Peace will begin at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, 128 N. McKean St. In addition to prayers for peace, there will be prayer for vocations, novena prayers to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, rosary and Benediction.The Divine Mercy Holy Hour will begin at 7 p.m. Aug. 19 at St. Paul.There will be prayers for healing in families, Divine Mercy Chaplet and Benediction.

The Apostolate of Fatima/Blue Army will recite the rosary at 6 p.m. Wednesday in commemoration of the fourth apparition of Our Lady of Fatima.It will take place in the Butler Catholic School parking lot, 515 E. Locust St. Take a chair.

PITTSBURGH — The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh says its clergy may sign marriage certificates between same-sex couples.The new rule is spelled out in a recent open letter to the diocese from Bishop Dorsey McConnell.McConnell has expressed reservations about the theology behind the church’s marriage rite, which the bishop approved for use in the diocese in November. That was before a federal judge in central Pennsylvania in May struck down the state’s law defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, effectively making same-sex marriage legal in the state.Diocesan spokesman Rich Creehan said the latest move isn’t an across-the-board endorsement of same-sex marriage by the diocese, and doesn’t mark a change in church teaching or the bishop’s position. It merely gives clergy who choose to marry same-sex couples the power to issue legally binding marriage certificates.

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