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21-year-old's photos create a time capsule of 1964 in Mississippi
… If a white man killed them to make an example of them, they would've left them hanging from a tree, that's the way to make an example of them." The bluster in that sentence conceals what the …
Mountaintop removal mining poses economic dilemma for West Virginians
… jobs largely outweighs critical environmental and health concerns. Just around the bend in the tree-shrouded gravel road from Brock's cabin is Big Laurel Learning Center, a ministry rooted in … about mountaintop removal mining. The widespread industry practice involves clear cutting trees and using explosives to blow apart the tops of mountains to expose coal seams. The …
Olive harvest at Garden of Gethsemane unites faithful with Christ
… our olives," Badawi told Catholic News Service while reaching into the branches of one of the trees that can be traced to the time of Christ. "The olive trees are still there, but we can't reach them. I feel something special in this holy place where … we are picking the oldest olives in the area, maybe in the whole world." At the bottom of the tree, Karina Henriquez, a volunteer from Chile, places olives that drop from the branches into a …
Synod a win for Francis and for openness
… or report from the synod on the family, there is a danger of missing the forest for the trees. It is true, the welcoming language toward gays was dialed back from what was expressed in …
Relatio post disceptationem for 2014 Synod of Bishops on the family
… daily sanctity must also nurture those seeds that are yet to mature, and must care for those trees that have dried up and wish not to be neglected. 22. In this respect, a new dimension of …
Cutting through the noise: the power of personal relationship
… we were on to the next farm chore. Throughout the morning, we fertilized plants, pruned fruit trees, planted pitalla , and stopped for a break to eat mangoes whose juice ran down our chins …
Spare the spanking, respect the child
… Peterson allegedly caused bruises and cuts to his 4-year-old son after using a "switch" or tree branch to beat the child. Although he apologized for the injuries to that child, he defended …
In Africa, church leaders responding to climate change locally and globally
… Maina, a conservationist with the Presbyterian Church of East Africa. Maina runs a massive tree planting project on church compounds and members' farms in his presbytery in the Great Rift … been built since 2009 -- store water under the riverbed, so it can be used for irrigation, tree planting and domestic consumption throughout the year. With 50 sand dams constructed each … practices such as watching flying dragonflies, low-swooping swallows or flowering acacia trees. But with weather patterns becoming unpredictable, farmers have been adding scientific …
Struck down, Orthodox priest Alexander Men also struck a chord
… assist at the liturgy. To get to the train station, he had to go down a dirt road bordered by trees. But Men never arrived at the train station. Someone came up from behind him with an axe, …
Pat Buchanan: a smile and an uppercut that stings
… moment came in the 1950s, when he caddied for then Vice President Nixon at the Burning Tree Golf Club in Bethesda, Md. No women were allowed on the property except at Christmas, when … gifts in the pro shop for their husbands. The friendship that began on the fairways of Burning Tree would take the caddy to the White House as Nixon's most treasured and loyal aide. In a …
Precious Blood brother tends, teaches on Ohio farmlands
… in Carthagena, Ohio. The farm includes 1,100 acres of tillable land and 200 acres of hardwood trees. For the next 43 years, Renner farmed the land, harvesting corn, soybeans and other crops. …