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NEWTON, Mass. (AP) – The singers enter single file, taking slow, deliberate steps as they intone a soft melody. Norman Doelling, an 85-year-old who recently suffered a stroke, is there waiting, an audience of one, eased into a recliner in the home where he's lived for decades in the
Massachusetts
BOSTON – As with many U.S. religious institutions, the traditional European-American Catholic demographic is graying in New England. An emerging face increasingly represents the American Catholic nationwide – and is slowly becoming the visage of the typical Massachusetts Catholic, too: the millennial Latino. But while Hispanics make up 40 percent of
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(RNS) — Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. The American Jewish Committee recently hired him as its first U.S. director of Muslim-Jewish relations. As a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 27
africa
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Rev. Jerry Kulah has nothing but gratitude for American Methodists. In 1833, they sent their first missionary to his country, Liberia, which was founded for freed American slaves. Melville B. Cox died four months after he arrived in Africa, but the missionary's legacy lives on
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Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. The American Jewish Committee recently hired him as its first U.S. director of Muslim-Jewish relations. As a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 27 years,
boston
BOSTON – In a society often riven over politics and religion, Christians in New England shouldn't be expected to agree on everything – and they don't. There are 700 churches in the Boston metro area alone, according to the Emmanuel Gospel Center's directory. They range in
Abortion
WASHINGTON – Both Republicans and Democrats support a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to send back to appeals courts cases challenging Obamacare mandates that require coverage of contraception based on religious grounds, asking the panels to try to find compromise solutions to the disputes. At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast
Donald Trump
"Today, the belief in American exceptionalism has vanished with the end of empire, the weakening of power, the loss of faith in the nation's future." Sound familiar? It could be a lament from anyone in Donald Trump's camp or from Trump himself. Actually, it
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