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Peruvians begin to put tragedy behind

ICA, Peru – The evening before his 12th birthday, Denis Sulca stood near the end of a line of more than 100 children, hoping for a ration of milk. Eight days earlier, Aug. 15, a magnitude 8 earthquake destroyed the adobe house where his family lived in a shantytown in this city of about 300,000...
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Holy Cross steeple hosting South Baltimore cell tower

Federal Hill’s historic Holy Cross church, part of the Catholic Community of South Baltimore, is hosting a stealth cell phone tower in its steeple.
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People, Places, Things

Faith formation classes at Our Lady of the Fields, Millersville, collected 405 boxes of cereal for Catholic Charities’ Our Daily Bread Employment Center in the parish’s annual Cereal Election. Contributors vote by donating a favorite cereal; 100 of those boxes were collected by the children in Mary O’Malley’s family, whose late husband, Michael O’Malley, was...
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Refund guaranteed if students aren’t reading

DETROIT – Our Lady of La Salette Catholic School in the Detroit suburb of Berkley is making a guarantee: First-graders will be reading at a second-grade level by the end of the year. If not, parents can ask for a full tuition refund.
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Archdiocesan youths lock in to their calling at “Adore-a-thon”

GLEN BURNIE – After a week of classroom stress and social angst, many high schoolers use Friday nights to blow off steam at parties.
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Mercy students stoke projects in Cambodia and Kenya

Standing in front of Mercy High School, Baltimore, students last year, a small unassuming nun challenged the teens to consider what they could do to make the world a better place.
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Bishops tell citizens to elect honest candidates

NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya’s bishops, saying the country’s future was at stake, have advised citizens to vote for candidates with a track record of honesty in the December general elections. They also expressed concern that corruption was still a major issue in the government of President Mwai Kibaki, who plans to seek re-election.
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UPDATED – Pro-life supporters march for change in Annapolis

ANNAPOLIS – Scared, unmarried and alone, Tracy Tiernan didn’t think she had many options when she became pregnant. She went to a Severna Park abortion clinic and dealt with her “problem” in the way society told her was okay.
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Congolese bishops denounce tolerance of hostilities in their country

KINSHASA, Congo – A group of Congolese bishops has denounced the international community’s tolerance of increasing hostilities in eastern Congo, which they called a “silent genocide” against the civilian population there.
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Decision on bishop photos could take months

WASHINGTON – It could be months before a New Mexico District Court judge rules on the request of an Albuquerque television station to obtain photos of injured Gallup Bishop Donald E. Pelotte taken by police investigating the possibility that he was assaulted, according to the diocesan attorney.
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Prayer vigil planned in support of traditional marriage

As the House of Delegates prepares to vote on a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, Catholics will join others in the faith community for a March 11 prayer vigil in support of traditional marriage.
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CCHD had cut funds to ACORN before campaign

BALTIMORE – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development cut off funding earlier this year to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, for reasons unrelated to the organization’s current troubles over voter registration and partisan politics, reported the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee on CCHD.
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