In the midst of a swine flu pandemic, should guests at a wine-tasting party share a single glass? A version of that question faces many Hampton Roads churches, where congregants sip from a shared Communion cup. A Georgetown University doctor warns against such a practice, but it's routine during Communion in Catholic, Episcopal and Lutheran churches.

VIRGINIA BEACH Since its start in 1978, Regent University has seen its graduates elected as state legislators, district attorneys and judges. But nothing compares with the election Tuesday of Robert F. "Bob" McDonnell as governor of Virginia.

VIRGINIA BEACH Carlos Campo, Regent University's vice president for academic affairs, will succeed founder Pat Robertson as the school's next president in 2010. Trustees voted unanimously Saturday for Campo, who had Robertson's endorsement. The selection was announced Monday.

Retired Episcopal Bishop C. Charles Vache, who championed women's ordination in the Diocese of Southern Virginia after first opposing it, died Sunday at Westminster Canterbury retirement community. He was 83. Vache led the diocese, which includes Hampton Roads, from 1978 to 1991. His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Trinity Episcopal Church in Portsmouth.

On Sunday  the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts will abound with  heavenly sounds.  

The inaugural “Gospel Celebration: Preacher’s Choice” will feature 10 choirs, groups, soloists and praise dance groups from churches in Suffolk and Western Tidewater. 

VIRGINIA BEACH The congregation of St. John’s Baptist Church at 2300 Holland Road has a new sanctuary.

But they’re not finished with the old one just yet.

Two wings of the old church, built in 1854, already have been moved to the back of the property and, today, the old sanctuary was being moved, said Debra Bros, church secretary.

To Bishop E. W. Jackson Sr., homosexuality is sin, and he needs to preach about it. That's why he fears new legislation that puts sexual orientation under hate crimes protection. "We could find ourselves in a situation where we're accused of inciting someone," Jackson said of pastors who oppose homosexuality. "I am categorically opposed to the hate crimes bill."

CHESAPEAKE St. Bride's Church might seem just the kind of Episcopal congregation that would grab the Vatican's new invitation for Anglicans to join Catholicism. High Mass, the Angelus, weekly confessions and rosary recitals as well as prayers for the pope already impart a Catholic style to the church in the Indian River section.

The city has revised its policy for invocations, four months after an association of atheists complained that opening prayers delivered at City Council meetings this year violated the separation of church and state.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Evangelist Franklin Graham has temporarily given up future contributions to his retirement plans from the two ministries where he's the CEO, saying his total compensation "looks terrible."