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Select a news topic from the list below, then select a news article to read.CRS seeks to aid Cambodia in economic recovery efforts
Friday, 24 May 2013 05:08
Cambodia is slowly working on its economic recovery, promoting tourism and investing in education and agriculture. But the formerly communist country is still struggling with a high percentage of poverty, especially in rural areas, where education and health care are scarce.To support the local community, Catholic Relief Services — which reopened its office in Cambodia in 1992 — is developing a five-year strategy focusing on family healthcare and education, according to Kellie Hynes, CRS’ Cambodia office director, who visited Los Angeles in late June on her way to meeting in the agency’s Baltimore headquarters.
Glendora parishioners assist in building Kenya parish, school
Friday, 24 May 2013 05:08
St. Dorothy Church parishioners Michelle Black and Danielle Vidiello still keep a fresh image of the day they left for Kenya five summers ago carrying eight heavy suitcases.“We had everything you could possibly think of,” Black said. “All kinds of construction supplies: welding masks, nails, screws, saws and toys.”
Signing makes history, students say not time to celebrate yet
Friday, 24 May 2013 05:08
Marking what community leaders labeled as a “milestone,” a “historic moment,” Governor Jerry Brown signed July 25 a portion of the DREAM Act and urged Californians to “invest in the people” and to “engage in the debate.”“It is crucial to make an investment in every child that lives and is born in California,” he said during a noon town hall meeting at Los Angeles City College, packed with community and business leaders, state and school officials, students and consuls from different Latin American countries.
Benedictine priest ordained at St. Mary’s
Friday, 24 May 2013 05:08
Grandfather-of-three, Patrick Sheridan, was ordained a Benedictine priest during a July 16 concelebrated Mass at St. Mary in Palmdale with Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar, presider, and Abbot Damien Toilolo of St. Andrew’s Abbey. Nearly 300 people attended the ordination liturgy. The offertory gifts were brought up by Father Sheridan’s daughter, Heather, her husband, James, and their three children: Kyndall, Cory and Kennedy.
Acting school aims to make Hollywood more like Holywood
Friday, 24 May 2013 05:08
Years before he was known as Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla hoped to become an actor.The late pontiff studied drama in his native Poland at Krakow's Jagiellonian University. Later, while preparing for the priesthood at a clandestine seminary, he also was a member of the underground Rhapsodic theater company.
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