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Woman aids immigrants, one hot meal at a time
ESSEX COUNTY, N.J. -- It is 30 degrees on a Friday evening, just 14 with the wind chill. Twenty-one Hispanic men, all undocumented immigrants who could use an extra layer or two, bump into each other as they form a shivering, ragged line across an empty parking lot.
They arrived at th...
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Clergy, lawmakers launch immigration reform push
WASHINGTON (RNS) Members of Congress joined religious leaders on Capitol Hill Wednesday (Feb. 11) to launch a coalition to promote a humanitarian approach to immigration reform.
The new Interfaith Immigration Coalition seeks cooperation from the White House in reforming immigration po...
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No “Doubt” about the Holocaust
The culture page of tomorrow's edition of the official Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano obliquely addresses the themes of this week's two big Vatican stories: sex abuse and Holocaust denial.
A laudatory review of Doubt, about a priest accused of child molestation, says the movie...
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Hispanic Christians rally for immigration reform
WASHINGTON (RNS) A Hispanic Christian group plans to hold monthly prayer vigils on Capitol Hill in hopes of pushing Congress toward passing an immigration reform bill.
Leaders of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders (CONLAMIC) joined Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill...
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The face of traditionalism
Bishop Richard Williamson may be under fire for his comments denying the Nazi genocide of the Jews, but his Facebook friends haven't deserted him.
According to Williamson's page on the social networking site, the bishop's "personal interests" include "reading and listening to the musi...
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COMMENTARY: Bienvenidos a America
NEW YORK-I've seen my wife teach English as a second language in North Carolina and New York, and I know her classes offer three gifts: improved fluency in a difficult language; cross-cultural fellowship in the "melting pot" ideal of America, and giving America a friendly and welcomin...
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Benedict talks Turkey (sort of)
Meeting in the Vatican today with the leader of the Armenian Orthodox and Apostolic Church, Pope Benedict XVI recalled the "heavy persecutions suffered by Armenian Christians, above all in the last century," an apparent reference to the mass killings of Armenians by Turks around the t...
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One flew over ...
Looking over Christianity Today's Best Books of 2007 , I was somewhat surprised that "There is a God: How the World's Most Famous Atheist Changed His Mind" made it on the list.
Let me first confess: I have not read the book. But this New York Times story from November of last year rai...
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c. 2007 Religion News Service
KIGALI, Rwanda _ Gloriosa Uwimpuhwe stopped going to church years ago. Burdened by the memory of the 800,000 victims of the 1994 genocide, she hesitates to step foot in the sacred places where women were raped in pews, where children were slaughtered agai...
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