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Nuns dress as prostitutes to save trafficking victims

LONDON – In a less traditional piece of charitable work, more than 1,000 nuns worldwide are swapping their habits for outfits typically worn by prostitutes or laborers. The 1,100 sisters belong to the group Talitha Kum, an 11-year-old network of women fighting human trafficking based in Rome and funded

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‘Saint Nicholas’ makes surprise appearance in Saint Peter’s Square

Vatican City (CNA) — A surprise visitor to St. Peter's Square during the general audience last week was met with a warm welcome. A "Saint Nicholas" in full costume came all the way from Germany to offer some holiday cheer.

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Christmas banned in Boston!

BOSTON – Hours of sunlight decrease and temperatures drop as Americans once again reopen the now-yearly debate over what to call this time of year – the Christmas season? The holiday season? December? Yet few Americans know that this debate, in various forms, arises almost as regularly as the season and dates

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Hanukkah in Paris: a time to celebrate life, express unity, and be proud

What do Jan. 7 and 9, 2016, mean to you? Unless these dates have some personal significance to we who live in the relative security of the United States, these dates probably conjure up nothing significant in our minds.

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Search for Jewish tombs lost in WWII brings back heritage

PROSTEJOV, Czech Republic (AP) — There was no mistaking what the stone slab was, only the spot where it lay was somehow not fitting. Instead of marking a place of the departed, the tombstone served as a doormat to a henhouse in a small Czech village. Confronting the dark legacy of

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Let women light Hanukkah candles at Western Wall, Israeli official says

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Women must be allowed to light Hanukkah candles and say a prayer at the official candle-lighting ceremony at the Western Wall when the Jewish festival of Hanukkah begins on Sunday (Dec. 6), Israel's deputy attorney general said this week. Every year, eight official lighting ceremonies — one

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Armenians celebrate Christmas in the Holy Land

Scouts with their colorful uniforms gather. More than 20 Armenian bishops and priests stand in Manger Square in Bethlehem to greet the Armenian Patriarch, His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian. With the sounds of trumpets, bagpipes, and music, the voices of young choir singers and shouts of joy, the Armenian Christmas

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When it comes to worship music, Hispanic churches look within

Written by Jesse James DeConto DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Andrea Hernandez picks out intricate arpeggios as a member of La Banda Revelation, which performs at Iglesia Hispana Emanuel, a Presbyterian church in the city's Hispanic neighborhood.