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Not THAT Touchdown Jesus
… hands and ND's football tradition--destroyed? Turns out it was just a rather ugly 62-foot plastic foam and fiberglass statue of Jesus, called "King of Kings," outside a Protestant church …
Pequeña Comunidad: The road to New Hope in El Salvador
… Nohemy Ortíz, Hortencia Preza and Valentina Pérez join us in a large, covered courtyard with plastic chairs arranged in a circle, an all-purpose space for meetings, meals and prayer. At one …
Forced evictees still ignored
… the two groups said. “It is a scandal that five years on, victims are left to survive in plastic shacks without basic essential services. The needs of these victims are at risk of being …
Drones and democracy
… aged seven or eight. They couldn’t pick up the charred parts in one piece. Finding scraps of plastic they transported the body parts away from the site. Three to four others joined in to help cover the bodies in plastic and carry them to the morgue. But these volunteers and nearby onlookers were attacked by …
On the Catholic frontier
… At Behga, a village of a few hundred souls scattered among small plots of terraced farmland, a plastic canopy flaps in the breeze, supported by large bamboo poles. This is the parish church. …
Green Hell?
… species extinction, pollution, deforestation, the increase of disease, shrinking oil reserves, plastics in the oceans, and more. I couldn’t detect any awareness of the connection of all life …
Cleveland parish closings vigorously contested
… of the altar within the 156-year-old church, a longtime parishioner, acting on his own, left a plastic bag of coins with a note that read: “A gift for Bishop Lennon. Thirty pieces of silver …
Catholics pray for pardon, rain in drought-hit China
… provinces and Chongqing Municipality are the worst-hit areas. Shen said people were using plastic pipes to collect water from mountains, but “there is no more water now.” Parishioners …
Go Green: Steps to a greener parish
… not only reduces strain on landfills but reduces the need for raw material. Paper, cardboard, plastic, steel and aluminum are a few of the most commonly recycled materials. Reusability and …
Know when to fold 'em
… carrying children next to the highway, people coming home from work in the city, carrying plastic bags with basic provisions for waiting families in the simplest of dwellings without … the fading light as we sped by, I saw a child standing alone in a dusty yard. He held a blue plastic ball like one my son had once, many years ago, cherished and played with every day in the …
Anointing
… plaza, food vendors and hawkers of every imaginable commodity, from toilet paper and small plastic bags of sliced papaya to ballpoint pens and pirated DVDs, make up a teeming warren of … our long, white bus, piloted by Santos, both driver and protector, and loaded with large blue plastic containers of potable water, hauled our group with gear-shifting, horn-blaring …
Rains complicate mission to homeless Haitians
… sometimes a few pieces of wood. The more fortunate received an emergency shelter kit, bought plastic tarps or perhaps obtained a small nylon or canvas tent. None of those items were meant to …
Holy Week 2010: Accompanying El Salvador
… day, yet the air was so dry I hardly perspired and was warned to drink water frequently from a plastic bottle I carried everywhere to keep from getting dehydrated. Romero's tomb in the crypt …
A status report on Haiti: Money flows, leadership lags
… had about 60,000 people at night living there, with virtually no shelter. They were cutting up plastic bags and trying to stitch them together, taking old pieces of cardboard that they found … The rectories, the convents, and so on, are destroyed. You've got priests living under those plastic sheets, nuns and catechists, everybody. The physical facilities have been shattered, and …
Spiritual, but not religious
… deliberate effort to live simply. -- Myra and John live in the suburbs of Chicago and keep plastic bins in their garage for recyclables. They spend a few minutes each day sorting and …
Lessons learned in Haiti: From the mouths of babes
… dead I knew that I had to rely on God more.” Barbara would need major reconstructive and plastic surgery. When I explained that we would need to get her to the USA, she cried with joy in …
Five Ways to Help Preserve Clean Water
… of all trash properly. … Never flush non-degradable products -- such as disposable diapers or plastic tampon applicators -- down the toilet. They can damage the sewage treatment process and …
A huge tragedy made startlingly personal
… and humane means of dealing with the corpses. Straub said he watched corpses placed in heavy plastic bags outside of the Haitian Community Hospital, where he has spent considerable time this … personnel were unable to say where the body was. The dead had already been wrapped in heavy plastic and some had been taken away, apparently to one of the mass graves being dug, by a team …
Developing Nicaragua with schools, bakeries and job training
… were purchased and bred to produce piglets. Waste from the pigs flowed into a large, heavy plastic bag (digester) about six feet long. As the waste was heated, it produced gas that was … of the kitchen resisted using the gas because she was afraid of explosions. Secondly, the plastic material of the digester was inadequate, lasting only two years. This brought an end to …
Not wasting the waste
… past 10 to 15 years since globalization hit, the state of Kerala has been having problem of plastics and waste excess. The figures showed that the tourist flow was actually going down in …