Associated Press – March 10, 2008 LAURENS, South Carolina – A black civil rights activist in South Carolina is fighting to close a store that sells Ku Klux Klan robes and T-shirts emblazoned with racial slurs. David Kennedy is confident he can make it happen. After all, he says he owns the building. Since 1996,…

Associated Press – March 10, 2008 VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official has listed drugs, pollution, genetic manipulation and social and economic injustices as new areas of sinful behavior. Sins increasingly manifest themselves as behavior that damages society as a whole, Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti said in an interview published Sunday by the Vatican’s daily newspaper,…

Associated Press – March 7, 2008 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The leader of Little Rock’s Roman Catholic diocese apologized to a national breast cancer organization, saying he made a mistake when he said donations to the group could help fund abortions. Monsignor J. Gaston Hebert issued the statement Thursday after a meeting with staffers from…

Associated Press – March 7, 2008 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel on Friday signaled a willingness to move ahead with peace talks despite a deadly attack on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem. But a U.S.-backed Egyptian initiative for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appeared to be in trouble because of the violence, which…

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