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Jul 24 2023
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Biden to designate national monument for Emmett Till
President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, as well as his mother, a White House official said.
Till's lynching and the activism of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley helped galvanise the civil rights movement.
Mr Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday which is Till's birthday, 25 July.
BBC News
Jun 06 2023
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'Unconstitutional' religious charter school immediately hit by legal challenges in Oklahoma
Within minutes of a state charter school board in Oklahoma on Monday to open what would be the first religious charter school in the United States, advocates for the nation's bedrock laws separating church and state announced plans to file a legal challenge against the proposal. Allowing the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and Diocese of Tulsa to open a taxpayer-funded virtual charter
Raw Story
May 23 2023
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LA Archdiocese: Dodgers' decision to honor drag queen nuns disparages real religious sisters
Responding to the news that the Los Angeles Dodgers will honor a self-described “leading-edge order of queer and trans nuns” with a long history of obscenely satirizing the Catholic faith, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is calling for “all Catholics and people of goodwill to stand against bigotry and hate in any form.” “The decision to honor a group that clearly mocks the Catholic faith and
Catholic News Agency
May 30 2023
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Missing teenager's body found on Jekyll Island Beach
The body of a Brunswick teenager was found around 1 p.m. Tuesday on a Jekyll Island beach after a nearly 20-hour search conducted by hundreds of volunteers and local, state and federal law enforcement. Connor Mathis, 16, was found by law enforcement officers at the south end of Jekyll Island after being reported as missing early Monday evening. Connor was attending a church camp at Camp Jekyll
The Brunswick News
May 15 2023
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There Has Been a Mass Shooting In Farmington, NM.
I thought I was having a lousy day with the flu. Perspective. For point of reference, Farmington is in the far NW corner of New Mexico, near the Colorado border. about an hour from Durango. It might be another city most people have never heard of, until something awful happens, and that is not fair to the victims or the citizens that work so hard to make a community. This one is thought to be
Daily Kos
Jun 05 2023
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Another Florida Horror Story: 2 Kids Trapped in a Flame-Engulfed Car
A Florida woman is facing felony charges in the country’s latest case where a child was left alone inside a vehicle. The car caught on fire while the children’s mother was inside a mall allegedly shoplifting, according to WESH. Across the country, seven children have died while unattended in overheated parked cars this year, per Kids and Cars Safety. In some incidents, the parents were
The Root
Jun 05 2023
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California Officials Say Florida Orchestrated an Illegal Immigrant Flight to Sacramento
Officials in California are investigating whether a flight of illegal immigrants who arrived on a plane in Sacramento on Friday were from Florida, The New York Times reported Sunday. Reportedly, 16 illegal immigrants from Venezuela and Colombia “abruptly” flew to California via a private chartered jet and were dropped off outside a church building on Friday. As a result, state officials are
Townhall
Jun 05 2023
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California attorney general blames Florida for charter flight that took migrants to Sacramento
FILE - California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 23, 2022. California’s attorney general says the state of Florida appears to have arranged for a group of South American migrants to be dropped off outside a Sacramento church. Bonta said Saturday, June 3, 2023 the individuals had documents purporting to be from the Florida state
San Diego Union-Tribune
Aug 11 2023
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Catholic couple says they were blocked from fostering child due to LGBTQ beliefs
A Massachusetts couple suing the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) say they were “shocked” when they were first informed of the reason their foster application was denied.
Mike and Catherine “Kitty” Burke, both devout Catholics, filed a federal lawsuit this week with the help of religious liberty group Becket Law, claiming that the state restricted them from fostering
New York Post (News)
May 22 2023
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Covenant shooting: Judge to rule this week if parents can intervene in release of records
Attorneys met for the first time Monday in lawsuits seeking the release of records related to the mass shooting at The Covenant School to argue whether the school, Covenant Presbyterian Church and a group of unnamed Covenant parents should be able to intervene to try to stop the release of some or all of the records. Chancery Court Judge I'Ashea Myles said at the hearing that she will issue a
The Tennessean