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MADISON, Wis. (Channel3000.com) — St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church was Madison’s first Black church. It was founded by a former Kentucky slave in 1902 when only 69 of the city’s 27,600 residents were Black. Ever since, it has been a center of Madison’s Black community. “I was from Arkansas, and I know what segregation was all about—colored and white fountains and water—but then when I came to Madison, you almost had the same thing,” Myzell Alexander, a member of the church since 1961, said. It was the church, though, that gave him refuge. Read more of this story.

SANTA ANA, CA (ANS) — The sixth annual World Refugee Day is today (June 20, 2006). The United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution in 2000 to remember refugees on a special day each year. There are estimated 15 million refugees and 5 million other displaced people around the world.

DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)–A federal judge has ruled that Prison Fellowship’s InnerChange Freedom Initiative violates the First Amendment’s clause barring government from the establishment of religion and has ordered the program at an Iowa correctional facility be closed within 60 days and $1.5 million in state funds be repaid.