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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) It is dangerous to not clear off heavy snow, but in Massachusetts Thursday it proved deadly.

A 29-year-old woman was killed Thursday afternoon in Weymouth, just outside of Boston when her carport, piled with snow, collapsed on her.

Its critical that you get rid of the snow off roofs and have it done by a professional.

The string of winter storms caused a build up of snow and ice that is wreaking havoc on homes and buildings across the state.

Crews tore down a warehouse on Water Street in West Haven after the roof came crashing down Wednesday night. The vacant warehouse was an old building made of wood construction.

Officials say snowstorm after snowstorm took a toll on the building, the snow and rain along with the age of the building lead to the collapse.

The best thing for everybody and the way the walls were bulging out and the way they could fall in the street, we had to get the building down, said Deputy Chief Scott Schwartz, West Haven.

And a similar scene in New Haven. Heavy snow is being blamed for a porch collapse on another street. The build up of snow made the weight extremely heavy.

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A Dunedin structural engineer and church leader has questioned why international seismologists and engineers are analysing up to 29 Dunedin churches to gauge their seismic fitness in the event of an earthquake.

The two-year project, funded by the Earthquake Commission, will involve scientists from New Zealand, Italy and Portugal developing a seismic vulnerability index for unreinforced masonry churches and historic buildings to help with decisions on retro-fitting to prevent damage in future earthquakes.

However, St Paul's Anglican Cathedral vestry and works committee, and Opus Dunedin earthquake risk management and strengthening consultant Thomas Moore had several concerns about the research.

While he welcomed the funding of the international study to explore rationally the seismic vulnerabilities of Dunedin's heritage churches, he asked the research group to focus closely on the practical issues of seismic upgrading by presenting a library of construction details acceptable to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, rather than merely running a scoring system.

Dr Moore said the New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineers (NZSEE) recently upgraded the initial evaluation procedure (IEP) to give substantial credit for previous strengthening work, such as that performed at St Paul's in 1968 when a new apse was constructed, enlarging the cathedral substantially, with new reinforced structural elements.

Under the IEP scoring system adopted in 2014, the work improved the seismic capacity of the cathedral significantly, he said.

''We would like to know if the new study will replace the 2014 scoring system.

''St Paul's is required to present an engineering evaluation of the cathedral by July 31, 2014.

''It is unlikely that the new scoring system will be in place by this date.

''Perhaps the real challenge is to design affordable strengthening measures or stiffening measures that limit building displacements, instead of focusing on another scoring system,'' he said.

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02/21/2014 09:20 INDONESIA South Sumatra, hundreds of Islamists block the construction of a Protestant church by Mathias Hariyadi An armed mob has occupied a plot of land owned by the Christian community Huria Kristen Batak Protestan. Raid motivated by lack of building permit. The leadership of the Hkbp lodges IMB application in 2011, to no avail . The Minister for Religious Affairs orders the termination of the project.

Jakarta (AsiaNews) - Late yesterday afternoon, hundreds of armed men, led by local Muslim leaders, stormed and forcibly occupied a plot of land owned by the Indonesian Christian community Huria Kristen Batak Protestan (HKBP). The incident occurred in the village of Talang Kelapa , located in the sub-district of Alang -alang Lebar in the regency of Palembang, South Sumatra province. The raid was motivated by an attempt to build a place of worship. In fact, on February 17 the ceremony of laying the first stone was held, amid protests from local residents. A decision that has created discontent among Muslims, who organized a task force to occupy the land - two acres in all - and to send a strong message to HKBP leaders: churches are not allowed in the area.

The process for building a church in Indonesia - Catholic or Protestant - is quite complicated and may take five to ten years to obtain all permits required by law. The procedure is governed by the Izin Mendirikan Bangunan (IMB), a species of written protocol that allows for construction to commence and is issued by local authorities.The story gets more complicated if it is a place of Christian worship: permission must be obtained from a number of residents in the area where the building is to be constructed and the local Group for Interfaith Dialogue. And even if the permission is granted "unspecified reasons" can come into play that will lead officials to block the projects. Often, this occurs after pressure from the Muslim community or radical Islamic movements.

Since 2011, the Christian community has initiated procedures to obtain the necessary permits, without any concrete results. Moreover, the lack IMB provides a legal foothold to the Muslim majority, who can enforce breaches and irregularities in the procedures to stop the building and forcibly occupy land. Junaidi Alhafidz, a local Muslim leader who headed the mob in fact declared the raid was motivated by "the Hkbp's lack of IMB permit" reflecting the fact that "the authorities in Palembang have not yet authorized the building". He also reiterated opposition "to the construction of a church".

The Islamic leader points to the fact that the signatures of 60 residents of the area are missing, as well as the minimal number of faithful (90) necessary to get the go- ahead for the construction of the building. This is confirmed by the head of sub-district Sulaiman Amien, who states that the local Protestant community "has not yet received the permits". The Ministry for Religious Affairs of Palembang has also weighed in ordering the HKBP to "halt" the project until all legal procedures are completed.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has seen a rise in the number of attacks or acts of intolerance against minorities, including Christians, Ahmadi Muslims and others. In the province of Aceh - the only in the Archipelago to apply Islamic law ( Sharia ) - following a peace agreement between the central government and the Free Aceh Movement ( GAM ) , the application of a radical form of Islam among citizens is becoming more extreme. In addition, certain rules such as the building permit - the infamous IMB - are exploited to prevent the building or close down places of worship, as was the case in West Java against Yasmin Church. The constitution provides for freedom of religion, but the community is the victim of incidents of violence and abuse. Local sources report that in December alone , at least five Christian places of worship have had to close their doors due to pressure from Islamists.

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A mission trip to Mexico gave Tim Howard a chance to see how a local church is making a difference.

While in Mexico, Howard met a family who shared their story: The couple had marriage problems and one of their sons was getting beat up daily in the public school. The family was on the verge of imploding.

Life began to change, however, through the dads interaction with Fremonter Darrol Prusia, who began working in Puebla, Mexico, as a missionary for Camino Global in 2010.

Within a short time, the Mexican man and his wife became Christians. Their marriage began to heal. The son transferred to a Christian school, where hes making academic progress.

Its really cool, Howard said. You see the real-life impact of what the Prusias are doing down there you see the real human face of what our missions are accomplishing.

Howard was just one of seven members of Fremont Alliance Church who recently went to Mexico, where they did various jobs from assembling and distributing wheelchairs to working on church buildings. Yet more than working on structures, team members were building and strengthening relationships with the people they helped, and each other.

The group spent time in two different cities visiting and helping missionaries who call Fremont Alliance their home church: Tina Barham and the Prusia family.

Deb Mellema, FACs adult ministry assistant, organized the wintertime trip. Church members making the journey were Randy Brand, Ken Meier, Tim Howard, Willie Jamison and Jo Preitauer of Fremont and Dan Ruwe and James Newkirk of Arlington.

Ruwe had long wanted to make such a trip.

Darrol Prusia is my friend and we were in a small group together for quite a while and he always said, When are you coming down for a mission trip?

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What: Aztec Presbyterian Church 125th Anniversary

When: 11 a.m. Sunday

Where: Aztec Presbyterian Church, 205 North Church Ave.

More info: aztec-presbyterian.org

AZTEC In 1888, 10 people got together in Aztec to form a church. They met in a little schoolhouse where the American Hotel now stands on South Main Street.

These 10 people came from as far away as London, England, and were from a variety of denominations including Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian. They are now considered the charter members of the Aztec Presbyterian Church.

A year later, the Aztec Presbyterian Church expanded to its own building on North Church Avenue in Aztec, where it still stands.

They built the church out of adobe and used rocks from the Animas River for the foundation.

Mrs. Austin, one of Aztec Presbyterian Church's charter members, is seen in this undated courtesy photo. Mrs. Austin and her husband, John Hovey Austin, were from Canon City, Colo. (Courtesy of Aztec Presbyterian Church)

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The Michiana Meltdownhas givenone South Bend Church abig problem - a $100,000 dollar problem to be more precise.

Lead Pastor Andy Lauer says The First Church of the Nazarene saw a tiny bit of water coming from the ceiling last week. Now, there's water everywhere, and part of the ceiling is coming down.

"Once it started melting this week, all the ice damming on the roof, and with the rain today... it's just been more than we can handle," says Lauer.

Not only is the water a lot to handle, so is the price tag. Lauer says, "Over $100,000 in damage. If we have to do some roof work and all that... it could be that much." The last 48 hours, Pastor Lauer has traded in his snow boots for rain boots, which he says is a bit ironic, saying, "Funny enough, this past Sunday I actually preached on Noah and the flood."

The congregation is made up of 175 people, and about a third of those people been flowing in to help. One of those volunteers is Jay Thornburg who says, "It's my church. It's my family. I'm between jobs in construction right now with the weather and what it is, so I feel like I should help now while I can give the time."

The church is doing all it can to keep the water out. They've set up a sump pump outside the walls where the most of the water is seeping through, placed buckets underneath wet ceiling tiles, and Thornburg says he's done more vacuuming in the past 24-hours than he has in his entire lifetime.

Lauer says although this is devastating to the church, they're determined to remain upbeat and keep in good faith. "We talked about having a walk through baptismal where people could walk underneath the drips and be baptized that way," he said."We've had some fun with it so it's not all negative. People have a good spirit about it."

The Church says they're looking for more volunteers to help keep the water out. By the way, the church isn't canceling any worship services.

For more information on The First Church of Nazarene, click here.

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