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Every Memorial Day weekend nearly a thousand Mormon singles from all over the country flock to North Carolina and congregate in rental houses on Duck Beach. There, they party (without alcohol), hook up (without sex) and strut their stuff for three days on the beach. It’s essentially Mormon Spring Break. We’ve learned, however, that many of the singles participate with genuine hopes of finding a spouse, or eternal companion.

The Film will follow four quite different but equally captivating singles who are going to Duck Beach this year. We’ll see the event through their eyes and learn about what it means to be single and Mormon at an age where, according to the culture, you should have been married long ago.

An unlikely prayer request from a parishioner has created conflict within a Catholic church in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Henry Borga added Osama bin Laden’s name to his church’s list of prayer requests for Sunday Mass — and the Church accepted it. This Sunday, Father Gavin Badway intends on leading his congregation in prayer for five people, including bin Laden, though he admits it’s likely to upset people at the service.

“Their hearts are troubled because they’re thinking emotionally about what he has done and he has done a lot of evil,” he told a local reporter. “Nevertheless, Jesus tells us, love and forgive.”

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