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At the risk of sounding boring, what else can one say but to admit that the passing away of the great Senator Chukwumerijie is once again death’s hollow and pretentious victory. The outpouring of the emotions has been genuine and understandable. In scholarship, he belonged to the generation of the.... |
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Broadcaster Adrian Chiles recently set himself a challenge - to go to church every day for more than a month, and never the same one twice. Why? For the Lent just gone by I resolved to go to church every day. I'm a Catholic so it would be Mass every day for more than a month. It felt like it would be a real struggle; a penance. |
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A few years ago, Lindsey Martin envisioned herself working in her home state of Georgia for the Atlanta Falcons or maybe the Atlanta Braves. Martin, who grew up with three brothers and played softball in high school and Ultimate Frisbee in college, studied sports management at the University of West.... |
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Rome. “Today the official delegation led by me was received by Pope Francis on the occasion of the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Literature,“ Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov posted on Facebook on Saturday. "The audience is traditional and the role of Bulgaria in the.... |
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Thousands gathered in San Salvador on Saturday to attend an open-air mass celebrating the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero, whose defense of the poor and oppressed divided both his home country of El Salvador and the Catholic Church. Officials expected the crowd to swell to up to 280,000,.... |
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Last Updated On 24 May,2015 About 55 minutes ago An estimated 200,000 cheering worshipers from all over the world packed the capital San Salvador. SAN SALVADOR (AFP) - Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated in 1980 and whose defense of the poor divided his nation and the Church,.... |
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Romero's assassination occurred at the outset of El Salvador's civil war and propelled the country deeper into a brutal conflict that raged until 1992, when the right-wing government signed a peace deal with the leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). |
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Hundreds of thousands of worshippers converged on the Salvadoran capital Saturday to witness the the beatification of the late Archbishop Oscar Romero. A papal declaration leaves the assassinated prelate one step from Roman Catholic sainthood. Romero -- revered by the poor and reviled by the.... |
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Officials estimated some 300,000 worshipers attended the massive ceremony on San Salvador's main square, where Pope Francis's envoy, Angelo Amato, conferred the title of "blessed" on Romero, putting him one step from sainthood. Waving flags and decked out in t-shirts printed with Romero's face,.... |
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Tags: El Salvador City SAN SALVADOR - Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was beatified on Saturday, the final step before sainthood, 35 years after he was gunned down at the altar by a right-wing death squad for denouncing the oppression of the poor by the military dictatorship. |
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The late archbishop’s younger brother, Gaspar Romero, represented his family on stage, with some 100 members attending the event. “As a family, we are honored by this gift given to us by our Lord through the Pope, we now have a saint in the family that everyone already calls Saint Romero of America,” said 85-year-old Gaspar. |
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