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Remembering Selma: Love trumps hate at historic voting rights march in 1965
“Trying to remember 50 years ago,” said Patrice Underwood with a chuckle, letting her words fade away, before adding, “but it had such an impact on me, I can remember a lot of it.”
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Human trafficking in Los Angeles
During a recent overcast morning in L.A.’s Koreatown, about 250 men, women and children from all walks of life — including students, families, business professionals and Catholic religious sisters — marched along a two-mile stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in the name of freedom from human trafficking. One of the people on hand for this year’s “Walk 4 Freedom” — presented by the L.A. Metro Taskforce on Human Trafficking, the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) and Southern California Partners for Global Justice — knows the reality of human trafficking all too well. With her positive demeanor, Udaya Kanthi Salgadu, 37, hardly seems like a survivor of human trafficking and indentured servitude.
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STATEMENT BY ARCHBISHOP JOSÉ H. GOMEZ ON POPE FRANCIS’ ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CANONIZATION OF BLESSED JUNÍPERO SERRA
STATEMENT BY ARCHBISHOP JOSÉ H. GOMEZ ON POPE FRANCIS’ ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CANONIZATION OF BLESSED JUNÍPERO SERRA In a press conference earlier today on the …
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Decision to canonize Father Junipero Serra draws divided reaction
He wandered beyond the edge of Christendom into a rugged land of “infidels” he sought to convert.
When Father Junipero Serra and his cavalcade arrived at la bahia de San Diego in 1769, between 225,000 and 310,000 natives inhabited the territory that would become the state of California. The string of missions he and his Franciscan order established would become an origin story for the state, a folkloric tale of vineyards and benevolent friars, taught to students from Modoc to San Ysidro.
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OneLife LA and 9 Days for Life
I am looking forward to Saturday’s OneLife LA celebration.
This will be a day of family and friendship in celebration of the beauty and dignity of every human life — from conception to natural death.
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Pope Francis to canonize evangelizer of the Wild West
In a surprise addition to his fall 2015 trip to the U.S., Pope Francis is planning to canonize the founder of California’s first missions, Blessed Junipero Serra.
“In September, God willing, I will canonize Junipero Serra in the United States,” declared Pope Francis aboard Sri Lankan Air Flight UL4111 on the way to Manila.
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OneLife LA: Huge Pro-life Event Comes to Nation’s Abortion Capital This Weekend
Just days before hundreds of thousands of people will gather in the nation’s capital for the annual March for Life, pro-lifers on the West Coast will get their chance to celebrate the beauty and dignity of every human life at OneLifeLA, the first-ever large-scale pro-life event in The City of Angels, on Jan. 17.
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OneLife LA: A March for All Pro-Life Reasons
The Los Angeles event, conceived by the local Catholic Church, is a celebration meant to inspire people to build a culture of life in a variety of ways.
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/onelife-la-a-march-for-all-pro-life-reasons/#ixzz3OvZRLIOh
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Raising a son with Down syndrome
Rick and Abbie Smith were going to have a son. By the end of nine months, they had dreamt up vivid forecasts of the child’s future and their life with him.
After delivery, the Smiths received the diagnosis.
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THOUSANDS EXPECTED AT ONELIFE LA, FIRST LARGE-SCALE EVENT TO CELEBRATE ALL HUMAN LIFE IN SO. CAL, JAN. 17
Actress Patricia Heaton joins roster of national speakers and presenters; Family who chose life over abortion, victim of human trafficking, former foster child among speakers …
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