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While he isn’t outside the wire all the time, Light said, he knows his job is equally as important. He must be there not only for the soldiers who are deployed, but also for their families back at home.
“Never in our nation’s history have families had to give up so much,” he said. “While I’m not out there on the front line fighting, it’s my job to be there for [soldiers] when they come back. If I can help prepare these soldiers to go back to their families, I’m doing my part.”
Categories: Military · Religion
The ruckus over the kidnapped Eucharist at the University of Central Florida continues. Now the admitted kidnapped has filed hazing charges against the Campus Ministries religious group. The University bans forced eating or drinking as hazing. The kidnapper maintains that being told to consume the Eucharist at Mass and not to leave with it constitutes hazing.
Categories: Catholic Church · Commentary · Original writing · Religion
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted party has been locked in a power struggle with secular groups supported by the military and other state institutions, including the judiciary.
Categories: Islam · Other Countries · War on Terror
“This is really what we call ‘deck-plate’ ministry,” he continued. “Get out and walk among those on the job during work hours.”
McKay emphasized that one of the most important services he offers to Troopers is complete confidentiality.
“What they say stays between us and God’s ears,” he said. “That’s our bread and butter – they can share what’s on their heart and mind.”
Categories: Military · Religion · War on Terror
Hugh Hewitt hits it out of the park with this comment.
Categories: Catholic Church · Islam · Other Bloggers · Religion
Hornell Evening Tribune
story by Rob Montana, photo by Lynn Brennan
June will mark four years since Father Patrick VanDurme first arrived in the Canisteo Valley — it also will mark his departure.
VanDurme, 42, made the first public announcement of his departure at Saturday’s 4:30 p.m. Mass at St. Ann’s Church, and will tell parishioners the same [...]
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From left, civilian government service employee Del Tingley, Seaman Ashley Halvey, Cpl. Bobby Malicoat and Lance Cpl. Nick Tarver, take part in a living Nativity on the hangar deck of the USS Kearsarge Dec. 23, 2007. The group presented the scene several times throughout the day. Halvey is with the Kearsarge. The other three members [...]
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AL TAQADDUM, Iraq — A rosary hangs from the protective vest of a Marine in Iraq. Many deployed servicemembers carry a memento or keepsake with them as a reminder of home or a source of strength.
Photo by: Sgt. Wayne Edmiston
Categories: Catholic Church · Marines · Military · War on Terror
BAGHDAD - An altar boy eagerly rings a bell to celebrate Christmas at the conclusion of mass held at the St. John’s Chaldean Church in Doura. After receiving the sacrament, the congregation’s children were treated to a visit by Santa Claus. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Kirk Luedeke, 4IBCT, 1ID)
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Earthtimes
India’s eastern state of Orissa has lodged a protest with the US government seeking action against a California-based website for hurting religious sentiments of people by selling undergarments with images of Hindu gods, a newspaper reported Friday. Hindu priests and religious groups had slammed the website, cafepress.com, for selling undergarments embellished with faces of several [...]
