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A Salvadoran immigrant serves as barber, friend to Washington’s poor
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rhina Guidos By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) — Hair clippers and brushes are the tools 34-year-old Rudy Romero uses to carry out his mission to help the poor and homeless. For the past four years, he has rushed three times a week or so from his day job …
Salvation is gift of God, brings people into community, document says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Salvation in Christ is a gift of God that cannot be earned by human efforts alone, and it is not simply some kind of interior transformation, but touches the way Christians live in the world and relate to others, said …
U.S. leaders praise Rev. Billy Graham at U.S. Capitol ceremony
IMAGE: CNS photo/pool, Susan Walsh via Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — President Donald Trump and congressional leaders paid tribute to the Rev. Billy Graham Feb. 28 in a brief ceremony before the public could pay respects to the evangelist while he lies in honor at the U.S. Capitol …
Immigrant youth express fears, determination through self-portraits
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Charities of Oregon By Katie Scott PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — “I want my dad to stay with me.” “We are not giving up. We keep going.” The words of first- and second-generation immigrant students in Portland are written across bold self-portraits, conveying fear and courage during …
Update: Christian leaders to reopen Church of the Holy Sepulcher Feb. 28
IMAGE: CNS photo/Debbie Hill By Judith Sudilovsky JERUSALEM (CNS) — Christian leaders in the Holy Land announced they would reopen the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Feb. 28 after the Israeli government has set up a negotiating team to resolve a municipal dispute over property taxes. The heads of Christian …
Dozens of Catholics arrested as they call on Congress to help ‘Dreamers’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) — Dozens of Catholics, including men and women religious, were arrested in the rotunda of a Senate office building in Washington Feb. 27 as they called on lawmakers to help young adults brought to the U.S. as minors without documents obtain …
Muslims (literally) hold key to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Nuseibeh family By Judith Sudilovsky JERUSALEM (CNS) — Jerusalem’s most famous Christian church, shared by three denominations, is unlocked each morning by a Muslim. Since the seventh century, the family of Wajeeh Nuseibeh, 69, has handed down the responsibility of opening the door of the Church of …
Therapy dog brings joy, stress relief to students at Catholic school
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Kohout, Catholic Voice By Mike May OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) — Every Wednesday morning, Bo roams the halls at St. James-Seton School in Omaha. But he’s not a student ducking class — he’s a golden retriever/Labrador mix eager to offer a friendly greeting to everyone he meets. As …
Mideast Christian leaders shut Church of Holy Sepulcher to protest taxes
IMAGE: CNS photo/Debbie Hill By Judith Sudilovsky JERUSALEM (CNS) — Protesting several recent actions they described as a “systematic campaign … against the churches and the Christian community in the Holy Land,” the heads of Christian churches announced Feb. 25 they were closing of the doors of the Church of …
Inmates at Louisiana prison built casket for Billy Graham
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy BillGraham.or By Peter Finney Jr. NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — In 1995, as inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola lowered the makeshift, cardboard casket containing the body of fellow inmate Joseph Siegel into freshly dug ground at the prison’s cemetery, Siegel’s body fell through the bottom …