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Woman Grilled in Polygamist Leader Trial
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Associated Press – September 17, 2007 ST. GEORGE, Utah – A young woman who said she was forced to enter an arranged marriage at age 14 testified Monday that she never complained to her mother or sisters that she was being raped. “I never told anyone,” the woman, now 21, said during cross-examination at the…
Saudi Women Push for Right to Drive
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nsymmonds
Associated Press – September 17, 2007 JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia – For the first time ever, a group of women in the only country that bans female drivers have formed a committee to lobby for the right to get in the driver’s seat. They plan to petition King Abdullah in the next few days for that…
Churches Weigh Whether to Join Sanctuary Movement
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By Nancy Haught PORTLAND, Ore. — Jean Bucciarelli remembers the Sunday last May when someone urged her congregation to become a sanctuary church — to actively support illegal immigrants who want to stay in this country. “Someone said, `Let’s just do it,”‘ she recalls. Some members of Ainsworth United Church of Christ were ready, but…
Cruise Movie Gets OK to Film at Key Site
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Associated Press – September 14, 2007 BERLIN – The German government will allow the makers of a movie starring Tom Cruise as the country’s most famous anti-Hitler plotter to film at the site where the hero was executed. Shooting of “Valkyrie,” which has attracted controversy because Cruise is a prominent Scientologist, began in July. At…
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