The list of credibly accused sexual abusers in the Springfield Diocese has grown. Bishop William Byrne, who took over the diocese last year, announced the
ELIZABETHTON - Glenn C. Church, age 83, of Elizabethton, TN went home to be with his Lord on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at Sycamore Shoals Hospital. Glenn served during the Vietnam Era for the U.S. Army and later retired after 30 years from the U.S. Post Office. A native of Carter County, he was the son of the late Asa Clinard Church and Sarah âDollyâ Morton Church. Glenn was a graduate of Unaka High school and then went on to finish his education at ETSU. He was very soft spoken and never raised his voice or spoke harshly of anyone. Glenn was a Minister of Music for over 60 years and served many local area churches. He was a member of Lynn Valley Baptist Church. Glenn enjoyed working in the yard, planting his flowers and being outside, but he especially loved to spend time with his grandkids. He always looked forward to music school every year with the Watauga Association of Baptists. Glenn had a significant influence on many people who came to know Jesus. He was a man who lo
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Aspen High School students and other protesters picketing the underground nuclear blast in Rulison in the spring of 1970. Courtesy Jay Cowan
This past Mayday marked the 50th anniversary of what was one of the last effective mass protests in Washington D.C. before the Black Lives Matter rally nearly half a century later. Demonstrators from all over the country convened for large-scale civil disobedience actions aimed at interfering with business as usual in the nation’s capitol.
I was 18 in 1971, a year out of Aspen High School and imminently draftable. People had been marching in America and Aspen for years to encourage our leaders to get us out of Vietnam, but instead the war was escalating. And those protesting it were being shot at Kent and Jackson State universities – 26 of them in one eleven-day period in 1970. Six died. The message seemed pretty clear: you should be prepared to sacrifice your life if you wanted to keep taking to the streets
Pope calls for prayers for peaceful coexistence in Holy Land
An Israel-Hamas ceasefire follows more than a week of fighting that claimed hundreds of lives
Updated: May 22, 2021 04:49 AM GMT
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Palestinian children walk amidst the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip on May 21. (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)
Pope Francis has called on the world s Catholics to pray for dialogue, forgiveness and peaceful coexistence in the Holy Land.
As local Catholics were set to gather at St. Stephen s Church in Jerusalem on May 22 to implore the gift of peace on the vigil of Pentecost, the pope asked all the pastors and faithful of the Catholic Church to unite themselves spiritually with this prayer.
The Tablet May 21, 2021
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope Francis has called on the world’s Catholics to pray May 22 for dialogue, forgiveness and peaceful coexistence in the Holy Land.
A Palestinian woman reacts after returning to her destroyed house in Gaza May 21, 2021, following the Israel-Hamas truce. The May 21 truce followed more than a week of fighting that claimed hundreds of lives. (Photo: CNS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Reuters)
As local Catholics were set to gather at St. Stephen’s Church in Jerusalem May 22 to “implore the gift of peace” on the vigil of Pentecost, the pontiff asked “all the pastors and faithful of the Catholic Church to unite themselves spiritually with this prayer.”