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Retiree devoted to mission: repairing damaged rosaries

Betty Holden in on a crusade to take broken rosaries stashed away in dresser drawers and give them new life and put them back into service.
 
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Non-profit, entrepreneurs pair up for clean-toilet micro loans in Kenya

In Kenyan slums, residents lack good sanitation options. In fact, they're typically faced with two distinct options: The infamous “flying toilet,” whereby people defecate into a thin polyurethane sack, tie it up and throw it ou...

 
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Artists painstakingly transfer sacred stained glass windows

NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) For nearly a century, the stained glass portrait of St.
 
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Nothing More Than …

I love hiking! A good pair of boots; warm sunbeams; wild thistle grass waving in a gentle breeze; red and white arrows painted on trees and signs ...  “Aaahhhh what a life! So which direction are we going?” Answer: “Nowhere!” ...
 
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Update: U.K. innkeepers fined for turning away gay couple

LONDON (RNS) Britain’s Court of Appeal has ordered a pair of Christian innkeepers to pay 3,600 pounds ($5,800) in damages to a gay couple that was told they could not share a room in the couple’s guesthouse. The thr...