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Victims’ Group Urges Church Action After Irish Abuse Report
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akornfeld
U.S. victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy say the Vatican should publicly rebuke the religious order that fought to keep abusers’ names out of a damning report that details thousands of crimes against minors in Ireland. The 2,600-page report, released on Wednesday (May 20), describes sexual and violent crimes committed against thousands of young…
Synagogues Assessing Security After Foiled N.Y. Plot
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akornfeld
Synagogues in New York and throughout the country were unaware of a plot to bomb two temples in New York City until it was foiled late Wednesday (May 20). New York City police arrested four men who allegedly believed they were planting bombs near two synagogues in the Bronx. The men also had plans to…
Indian Yoga Guru Krishna Pattabhi Jois Dies at 93
By
nsymmonds
NEW DELHI – Krishna Pattabhi Jois, a yoga teacher and practitioner famous for popularizing Ashtanga yoga in the West, has died. He was 93. Jois died in the southern Indian city of Mysore on Monday, a press statement from the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute said. He was born in Kowshika village in the…
Police Look for Mother and Son Who Fled Chemo for Religious Reasons
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nsymmonds
SLEEPY EYE, Minn. – A courtroom clash between medicine and faith took a criminal turn, with police around the country on the lookout Wednesday for a Minnesota mother who fled with her cancer-stricken 13-year-old son rather than consent to chemotherapy. A court-ordered X-ray on Monday showed a tumor growing in Daniel Hauser’s chest, and doctors…
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