Victims of “endemic” child abuse at Catholic institutions in Ireland have expressed anger that a damning report will not bring about prosecutions.
“Members of faith groups have a role in making the argument in their own communities for greater LGBT acceptance, but in the meantime the state has a duty to protect people from unfair treatment.”
In a surprise turnabout, the New Hampshire House voted narrowly Wednesday afternoon to defeat the measure, 186 to 188. When the House Speaker announced the vote in the House, the chamber erupted with sounds of both distress and applause.
About 1,000 people accused of being witches in Gambia were locked in detention centers in March and forced to drink a dangerous hallucinogenic potion, human rights organization Amnesty International said.
In case you need to know, it costs more to be poor than to be rich: Poverty 101: We’ll start with the basics. Like food:
I wonder if younger women are now sure enough of their sexual autonomy and their choices generally that they don’t view limits on abortion as attacks on their overall freedom. My theory? People always apply the brakes to whichever side has the momentum.
The New York Times did a brief photo story on the first eight saints, Sojourner Truth, Bartolome de las Casas, Miriam (Moses’ sister), Origen, Malcolm X, Elizabeth I, Iqbal Masih and Teresa of Avila. People outside church circles are interested in who the church holds up as our guides and examples, and when the list includes unexpected people, the interest grows.
The scholars and teachers Charlemagne brought to Aachen provide some clues about the various locales in which early medieval learning had survived. . . . Charlemagne brought an Anglo-Saxon, Alcuin of York, to Aachen after meeting him in Italy in 781.