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Birmingham Diocese helping 60 families after spring tornadoes
OSV News
March 29, 2021
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama, is working with at least 60 families whose homes sustained damage in a spring tornado.
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Governor signs death penalty repeal at site of 101 executions since 1991
OSV News
March 26, 2021
While standing outside the prison that housed Virginia's execution chamber, Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in the state March 24.
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Pope names Chilean survivor to Commission for the Protection of Minors
OSV News
March 25, 2021
Pope Francis has named Juan Carlos Cruz, a survivor of sexual abuse by a notorious Chilean priest, to be a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
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Boulder, Colorado, police officer first to die in mass shooting called hero
OSV News
March 24, 2021
Officer Eric Talley, an 11-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department, was the first to arrive at the scene of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store the afternoon of March 22 and the first of 10 to ...
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Supreme Court to review Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty case
OSV News
March 23, 2021
The Supreme Court's March 22 announcement that it would hear a government appeal to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brings the death penalty issue in front of the Biden administration.
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Cardinal, imam hold dialogue as follow-up to pope’s meeting with ayatollah
OSV News
March 22, 2021
With personal warmth paired with the careful phrasing of diplomats, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory and Imam Sayyid M. B. Kashmiri, a representative of Shiite Muslims in North America, held a dialogue on Christian-Muslim relations March 17.
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Slain Minnesota lawmaker, husband remembered for lives lived ‘with purpose, meaning’