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Black pro-life leaders hold rally outside Planned Parenthood in D.C.
African-Americans make up just under 13 percent of the U.S. population, but "they represent over 30 percent of all abortions," said Alveda King, niece of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leading a pro-life rally outside a new $20 million facility.
Panel: Genocide, wars, indifference will make Mideast Christians extinct
Establishing a safe haven for Christians while rebuilding their devastated homelands is preferable to massive permanent resettlement to other countries, including the United States, said speakers at an interfaith forum in New York.
Priest-historian: 75 years later, Pearl Harbor ‘such a powerful event’
The Dec. 7, 1941 attack by the Japanese on the Hawaiian outpost and the 9/11 terrorist attacks were both "cataclysmic events that galvanized our country," said the head of military chaplains, Father Daniel Mode, at the Pentagon.
Father Joseph Huynh, minister to Vietnamese newcomers, dies at 75
The priest who served the Vietnamese Catholics and other immigrants at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Philadelphia was ordained in Vietnam and spent time in a prison camp before coming to America in 1980.
Heroin & Opiate Addiction Panel Discussion
The panel discussion is being held at St. Phillip Neri in Montgomery County.
Dedication of Christmas Creche
The 21st annual Christmas Creche dedication at the cathedral is coming up.
‘Tis the season, and Bethlehem businesses hope for a merry one
After two Christmas seasons in which the political reality had overtaken holiday cheer, people seemed primed to finally feel some merriment in Bethlehem.
Iraqi Christians in U.S. pray to reunite with family at Christmas
Victoria Rassam, 56, who migrated to Chicago two years ago, was still waiting for her family to come. She said all she could do was pray and that she was "really hoping" she would see her children again soon.
Despite distance, Iraqi Christians keep the spirit of Christmas alive
Christmas, traditionally celebrated with loved ones, is a reminder of the exodus of Christians from Iraq and the Middle East to countries all over the world.
Catholic young adults in Montco talk it up with Archbishop Chaput
The Theology on Tap event at a Lansdale watering hole featured a Q&A with the archbishop, who recently returned from meetings in Rome on engaging the talents of young people to proclaim the Gospel.