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As Philadelphia prepares for the June 2 primary with much fewer polling places than normal, neighborhoods with low-income residents and communities of color are requesting absentee ballots at rates that lag other parts of the city, election officials say. |
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From my earliest childhood all the way through high school, I “did” religion pretty well. I went through the motions assuming that I was accumulating some sort of credit balance with God and might be deserving of a better-than-even shot at Heaven. Trouble was I had no idea who God was, or even whether I liked Him or that He liked me. |
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Once named Britain’s most amazing pensioner after volunteering for more than 70 years, Harry Mercer’s family said their final goodbyes at his funeral. Struck down by the former Second World War RAF Halifax Bomber rear gunner lost his final battle at the age of 97. |
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Margot de Greef and Laura Curkendall | May 6, 2020. Imagine, for a moment, that you woke up in Haiti’s Northwest Department this morning. Like the rest of the world, you would be living with the threat of COVID-19. But beyond that, a lot of things would be different from other places. |
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Cardinal Vincent Nichols says Catholic churches should be allowed to open for private prayer by individuals before places of worship in which large numbers of people gather. Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA.
Catholic churches should be allowed to reopen before Pentecostal churches, or mosques owing.... |
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Over the years, some voices of cricket have become immortal. Thanks to the great Richie Benaud, Tony Grieg, Tony Cozier and many more, cricket was injected with an element without which the game today is incomplete. Ball-by-ball commentary today goes hand-in-hand with cricket, and it was today, May.... |
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A Christian MP has asked the Government what financial help it is providing for faith groups and organisations in the UK Ruth Jones, the Labour representative for Newport West, asked how they are supporting religious institutions in her constituency, Wales and the rest of the UK. |
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This obituary is part of “ We Will Remember ,” a series about those we’ve lost to the coronavirus. Edmon C. Carmichael, 79, and Gwendolyn A. Carmichael, 72, met during their teenage years in high school and had been married 53 years before dying one day apart from COVID-19 complications at St. Mary’s Mercy Hospital in Livonia. |
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Mourners lined the streets to say their final goodbyes to a best-selling author and much-loved great-grandmother. Sheila Quigley passed away after being taken to hospital with problems arising from a toe infection, with tests ruling out covid-19 as the cause of death. |
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Catholic churches should be allowed to reopen before Pentecostal churches, or mosques owing to their different styles of worship, the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales has said. Places of worship come under step three of the government’s recovery strategy , meaning they cannot open until 4 July at the earliest. |
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After he intensified his incendiary comments against President Michel Aoun, Walid Jumblatt met with him at the Baabda Presidential Palace on May 4; a visit which came as a surprise to many. Equally surprising were his soothing comments after the meeting on the need to "manage the conflict" with the.... |
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