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World Congress Controversy: Cardinal Schonborn Defuses Concern Over Orthodox Bishop's Remarks (Popularity:  )
On Day 4 (Saturday, April 5) of the World Mercy Congress at St. John Lateran Basilica here, Congress President Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Austria dealt with a controversy stemming from yesterday's plenary sessions, according to a story by Dan Valenti.
The controversy deals with a presentation made on Friday (April 4) by Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion Alfeyed of Austria. Valenti, who broke the story, is covering the Congress here for ...
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Planned Parenthood Fights Parents Over Abortion Records: Court Reconsiders Decision (Popularity: )
American Life League blasted Planned Parenthood's attempt to withhold potentially incriminating records in the case of an abortion performed on a minor as "secretive" and suspicious. The Ohio State Supreme Court is reconsidering whether to allow the parents of a 14-year-old, who got an abortion without their consent, to review records involving abortions performed on other minors.
"It's outrageous for Planned Parenthood to argue that routine business records are not ...
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U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for March 23 (Popularity: )
The following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
SUNDAY, MARCH 23: BIG EGG HUNT
Profile America -- Sunday, March 23rd. Today is Easter Sunday, one of the most joyous days in the calendar of all Christian denominations. One of the ways the day is celebrated involves Easter eggs. Ancient Greeks, Persians and Chinese gave gifts of eggs at spring festivals and brightly colored ones were ...
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125 Indevus Sales Representatives to Provide Community Service in New Orleans for Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative (Popularity: )
As part of its annual sales meeting being held in New Orleans for the first time, Indevus Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: IDEV), a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Lexington, Massachusetts, is dispatching 125 sales representatives to the 1900 and 2000 blocks of 6th St. in Central City on March 20 from 9:00-3:30 p.m. to help landscape a number of homes for Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative, a faith-based nonprofit organization that provides ...
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Peace Award to Muslim-Jewish-Christian Co-op and No. Calif. Coffee Company (Popularity: )
The Tufts Institute for Global Leadership has awarded Thanksgiving Coffee Co. of Fort Bragg, Calif. the prestigious Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award for supporting a co-op of Muslim, Christian and Jewish coffee farmers in Africa. Former winners of the award include Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Thanksgiving shares the award this year with partners Peace Kawomera Fair Trade Coffee Cooperative in Mbale, Uganda and Kulanu, a grassroots, U.S. volunteer ...
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VIDEO from Medialink and Thomas Nelson Publishers: Is the Holy Book the New Textbook? (Popularity: )
The Bible is the most influential book ever written, according to TIME Magazine. It is the best-selling book of all time, and also the best-selling book of the year, every year. But despite the importance of it in historical and cultural influences on the U.S., many Americans are biblically illiterate. Works from William Shakespeare to Charles Dickens and speeches from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr. were all influenced ...
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Muslim Ejected From Louisiana Mall Over Hijab (Popularity: )
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on local, state and national law enforcement authorities to investigate a recent incident in which a Muslim woman was allegedly ejected from a Louisiana shopping mall for refusing a security guard's demand to remove her religiously-mandated headscarf, or hijab.
CAIR said the 54-year-old woman and her daughter-in-law were leaving the food court of the Oakwood Mall in the New Orleans suburb of ...
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Local 12-year-old Kicks Off 'Millions to Remember' Penny Drive (Popularity: )
Collecting is big these days. Americans collect paper, glass and plastics to recycle, stamps as a hobby and teapots and other items to decorate a home. But pennies? One local Ambler, Pa., youth is trying to collect 6 million of them in an effort to raise a whopping $60,000 for charity.
As preparation for her mitzvah (good deed project) for her Bat Mitzvah, 12-year-old Jenna Steinbrink kicked off her 1-year-long ...
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Availability of Guns Doesn't Explain Why so Many Individuals Use Them Today to Kill Random Strangers, Says MIM President Bob Peters (Popularity: )
Following the mass murder at the Omaha, Nebraska mall in December, Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media, wrote a 3,000 word article, entitled, "Mass Murder by Individuals and the Role of Guns, Religion, and Popular Culture," which is published at the website, on the Miscellaneous Issues page. In that article he commented:
"Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in North Central Illinois farm country, I often felt ...
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Hate Graffiti Sprayed on Burned Tenn. Mosque (Popularity: )
The Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the FBI and Tennessee law enforcement authorities to investigate a fire and hate graffiti at a mosque in that state as a possible bias-motivated crime.
An official of the Islamic Center of Columbia told CAIR that the fire was discovered Saturday morning and "pretty much destroyed" the mosque. Several Nazi swastikas and the phrases "white power" and "we run the ...
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