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Harvard Hit For Investing In Farmland

Matthew McDonald

Investments in fossil fuels and private prisons by Harvard University have irked left-wingers in past years, and now some critics are latching onto the school's farmland holdings.

Harvard started quietly buying farmland in places like Brazil, South Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, and California after the 2008 financial crisis, according to a report described by The Harvard Crimson.

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Archdiocese of Boston Removes Nigerian Priest From Brookline Parish

Matthew McDonald

The Archdiocese of Boston has removed from ministry a priest from Nigeria because of allegations that he sexually abused a child in 2007.

Father Christian Ohazulume had been living since 2010 at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Brookline, where he assisted in celebrating Mass and hearing confessions while serving as chaplain at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, according to The Pilot, the newspaper of the archdiocese.

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