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ROME — In a broad proclamation on family life, Pope Francis on Friday called for the Roman Catholic Church to be more welcoming and less judgmental, and he seemingly signalled a pastoral path for divorced and remarried Catholics to receive holy communion. |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thirteen North Koreans working at the same restaurant in a foreign country have defected to South Korea, Seoul officials said Friday. People working in North Korean-operated restaurants overseas have previously defected, but this is the first time multiple workers have.... |
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The Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual spring leadership meeting begins Friday at the Venetian Resort and Casino in Las Vegas; the site is owned by philanthropist Sheldon Adelson, a man who donated over $90 million to the GOP cause during the 2012 presidential race. One presidential hopeful will attend, but not his rivals. |
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A Texas youth pastor who has been accused of sexually assaulting at least three kids was beaten up by good Samaritans as he molested a child last week. Willie Bell, 29, was caught in the act attacking a 6-year-old kindergarten student behind an apartment building in Dallas on March 31. |
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Ali Grant and Chris Cowan wanted to combine their love of design, reclamation and all things vintage with food and coffee and the result is Door & Rivet, a distinctive new café in the 19th century crypt of City Road Baptist Church. The project started just over five years ago when Grant was working.... |
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Pope Francis released his revolutionary post-synodal apostolic exhortation on family life early Friday, asking the Catholic Church to be merciful and allow divorced Catholics to take Holy communion. Same-sex couples were shunned from marriage, saying it cannot be seen as the equivalent of heterosexual unions. |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thirteen North Koreans working at the same restaurant in a foreign country have defected to South Korea, Seoul officials said Friday. People working in North Korean-operated restaurants overseas have previously defected, but this is the first time multiple workers have.... |
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“This is a document that demands a careful reading and reflection from Catholics everywhere, and it is sure to bear great fruit,’’ O’Malley said in a statement released Friday by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston which he leads. “Pope Francis shows himself to be the gentle, merciful pastor.... |
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After two years of high-level meetings to discuss some of the most contentious and most personal issues in the Catholic church — including gay marriage, cohabitation and divorce — Pope Francis published a major teaching on Friday about the Catholic family. |
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Pope Francis has urged the priests of Catholic churches to be more welcoming towards homosexuals, and divorced and remarried Christians. Picture: A pilgrim offers mate to Pope Francis at the end of his weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican April 6, 2016. Reuters. |
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They are two men of God but they could not be further apart on the subject of Mississippi's "religious freedom bill." On one side is a former minister from Ocean Springs who attends an Episcopal Church and considers himself a liberal. On the other, the conservative pastor of Cowan Road Baptist who.... |
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Cuba Gooding Jr revealed Thursday his role as football star-turned murder suspect O. J. Simpson had taken him to such a dark place that his pastor prayed over his soul. The 48-year-old described at a celebrity charity event in Hollywood how filming FX’s “The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story” had taken a heavy emotional toll. |
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They are two men of God but they could not be further apart on the subject of Mississippi's "religious freedom bill." On one side is a former minister from Ocean Springs who attends an Episcopal Church and considers himself a liberal. On the other, the conservative pastor of Cowan Road Baptist who.... |
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I continued as he directed me with some "wells," some "Amens" and some "keep going nows." The "Amen Corner" of Ebenezer Baptist Church kept me going, stronger and stronger, lifting my voice and taking my passion to higher and higher levels. I was sweating as I pranced around on the stage and finally just preached my heart out. |
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They are two men of God but they could not be further apart on the subject of Mississippi's "religious freedom bill." On one side is a former minister from Ocean Springs who attends an Episcopal Church and considers himself a liberal. On the other, the conservative pastor of Cowan Road Baptist who.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thirteen North Koreans working at the same restaurant in a foreign country have defected to South Korea, Seoul officials said Friday. People working in North Korean-operated restaurants overseas have previously defected, but this is the first time multiple workers have.... |
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Pope Francis has declared 2016 a “year of mercy.” In a new, long-anticipated document on the family released on Friday, the pontiff asked for mercy for the Church. “At times we have also proposed a far too abstract and almost artificial theological ideal of marriage, far removed from the concrete.... |
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Press Release. Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 07 , 2016 (RSCNPF) – Commissioner of Police Mr. Ian Queeley used his Commissioner’s Lecture today (April 07) as the venue for the re-energized Police Welfare Association and the Police Sports Club to share their 2016 goals and objectives with the Police Service. |
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Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. attends the 5th Annual "Reel Stories, Real Lives" event benefiting the Motion Picture & Television Fund, April 7, 2016 at MILK Studios in Hollywood, California. AFP PHOTO | ROBYN BECK
The 10-part series, which finished this week, followed Simpson's prosecution for the murder.... |
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Some residents in the South Sudanese town of Tonj refer to fashion designer Lee Kwang-hee as “mother,” after she spent seven years doing charity work there through her nongovernment organization, Himango. As a fashion designer, Lee used to tailor high-end clothes for premium customers including first ladies and wives of business tycoons. |
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By AFP 3 hours ago in Religion Claims that a young woman developed Christ-like wounds after playing Jesus in a play have sharply divided opinion in Samoa, igniting debate over whether the bleeding cuts to her body are miraculous or a hoax.
The country's prime minister is among those who believe.... |
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Those who follow capital punishment arguments hear quite a lot about why the death penalty is not a deterrent, how terribly expensive it is with all the appeals and even how hard it is on many correction officers who carry out our laws to kill people. Many, if not most, of the surviving victims receive no comfort when the offender is executed. |
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel will soon have a new official heading up the city's massive sewer and water main replacement program and trying to urge Chicago property owners to switch to water meters. Barrett Murphy, who's held various City Hall positions over the past two decades, will take over for Thomas.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thirteen North Koreans working at the same restaurant in a foreign country have defected to South Korea, Seoul officials said Friday. People working in North Korean-operated restaurants overseas have previously defected, but this is the first time multiple workers have.... |
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A leading gay and lesbian business group has scrapped its plans to honor Governor Charlie Baker at a gala dinner in Washington, D.C. later this month after learning he will speak at a GOP conference, reports Baker will travel to Las Vegas this weekend to speak at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s spring leadership meeting. |
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