Divorcing Parents Must Attend Catholic Seminar Rule
The American Jewish Congress and the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union urged Kentucky courts in two counties to stop requiring divorcing parents to attend a seminar run by a Roman Catholic church agency. They do not oppose voluntary attendance if secular alternatives exist. The groups argued the mandate should be ended until secular options are available.
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Tne
Kentucky
Cj Liberties Union
Pet Gicn
Pope John Paul II faces Buddhist backlash over book chapter
Buddhist groups condemn the pope for a chapter on Buddhism calling it an act of aggression. More than 100 priests demand immediate retraction while local Catholic priests apologize, but the Federation of Buddhist Organizations says that is insufficient.
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John Paul II
Hisanka
Federation of
Vatican denounces Texas execution of Jesse Jacobs
The Vatican newspaper calls the 1986 Texas murder death sentence as monstrous and absurd. It notes the prosecution doubts Jacobs’s guilt and cites Catholic teaching possibly moving toward total opposition to capital punishment.
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Vatican
Texas
Jesse de Wayne Jacobs
Jacobs
Gino Concetti
Oregon move allowed for mother and children overturns judge
Alicia Larson planned to remarry and relocate with her two children ages 10 and 63 to Oregon despite her ex husband claiming it would harm their Mormon upbringing. The court reversed Judge David S. Young’s ruling granting the move.
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Cour
Oregon
David S. Young
Alicia Larson
Young
Charity groups warn against cutting social program funds
Leaders of charities urge Republicans in Congress to avoid deep cuts to federal social programs. They say charities cannot replace government in providing services. Sara Melendez of Independent Sector calls the notion that charity can substitute for government an illusion.
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Congress
Sara Melendez
Independent Sector
Associated Press
Jesuits Begin Three Month General Congregation in Rome
In Rome the 23,000-member Society of Jesus started its three month general Congregation with a Pope John Paul II remark urging Jesuits to remain faithful to church teaching while affirming strong commitment to social work and aid to the needy as part of their global mission to spread the gospel.
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Society of Jesus
The
Jesuits
Rome
John Paul II
John Paul
Rehgon News Senice
Rabbi Jacob Kassin Dies at 94 Expert on Kaballah
Brooklyn based chief rabbi of the Syrian Sephardic community for over six decades has died at 94. He shaped edicts on marriage prohibitions for Syrian Jews with non-Jews or converts. The Nonprofit Times notes the organization’s 1993 revenues of 1.93 billion and places it ahead of the Red Cross.
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Jacob Kassin
Brooklyn
Kassin
Kaballah
Catholic
Jenahon
Times
Chanty
American Red Cross
Peter Bebbleshwarte
England
Hebbiethwaite
Vatican
National Catholic Reporter
John XXIII
Pope Paul VI
Faith Notebook community church and temple event notices
Community faith notices list multiple services and events across Cicero Center United Methodist Church Temple Adath Yeshurun and other groups. Activities include Sunday and weekday services, a 3 p.m. Mass, recollection sessions, a book review, a turkey dinner, and a film screening with contact numbers for details.
Knoxville police chaplain corps helps officers through faith on streets
In Knoxville, 31 chaplains trained in a 40 hour course now ride with officers to aid on patrol. They assist distressed motorists and families, provide crisis care after shootings, and emphasize victim support while bridging police and community tensions.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Marion Hall
Rudy Bradley
Sue Bowen
Cocke County
Baptist Hospital
Jake Popejoy
Fbys
David DeRevere
International Conference of Police Chaplains
Livingston
Texas
Kansas
New York City
DeRevere
G.W. Fisher
Paul Lane
Dorean Johnson Rashad
Fisher
Brendon Rogers
Right
Knoxville Police Department
A Prayer for the Nations and Conversations with God
The piece discusses Walter Henderson Brooks's A Prayer for the Nations from 1918 and Melvin Washington's Conversations with God, framing both as expressions of African American spiritual life. It notes the use of prayer to frame WWI as a sacred mission, reflects on black faith voices from Wheatley to Jackson, and emphasizes the cultural significance and educational value of black prayer in American literature.
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Walter Henderson Brooks
Washington, D.C
Brooks
Frank Madison Reid III
Baltimore
Bethe
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Phillis Wheatley
Jesse Jackson
Washington
Prayers Across Cultures Through African American History
Washington’s new book Col Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans gathers about 200 prayers showing how black spirituality echoed Jewish persistence and endured oppression. The work links slave era suffering with modern Afrocentric thought, detailing how faith sustained communities through racism and migration.
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Washington
God
HarperCollins
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