and a 21 year old briton has become the youngest woman to row solo across the atlantic. jasmine harrison rowed from the canary islands to antigua injust over 70 days. good afternoon. care home residents in england will be allowed to choose one person to visit them regularly from march eighth, in the first confirmed easing of lockdown. they will be able to meet indoors and be allowed to hold hands but visitors must wear personal protective equipment and be tested before going into a home. the announcement comes ahead of the prime minister revealing his road map for easing lockdown on monday. 0ur health correspondent anna collinson has more. a moment of relief during a dark year for 83 year old barbara abrams. this is the closest her family have been allowed to get to her while visiting her care home in stockport because of covid restrictions. that lack of physical contact has been really difficult for us. my poor mum. her health both physically and mentally has really deteri
when i tell people my story, they don t believe it. i guess i wouldn t believe the story if someone else were telling it, but i m telling it. and it s true. every word of it. it started when i was born. 56 years ago. but the real story began when i was 19 years old when i went to college. it was 1980. it was the first day of school at sullivan county community college up in the catskills about 110 miles from where i grew up. so i drove up there alone. i at least had this really old car. it was a volvo and it was a 1970 volvo. had like 130,000 miles on it. the car was burgundy and the hood was green. actually, the car was called the old bitch. but the old bitch got me there. sullivan was a community college. this wasn t some longstanding institution of higher learning. all these station wagons are dropping kids off. i was nervous. i just got to the school. i didn t know anybody. i was a freshman. i was never the captain of the football team in high school. so i was never rea
Credit: Unsplash. / nullCNA Staff, Jun 6, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA).A parish in the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, is openly promoting blessings for same-sex couples despite a Vatican directive that suggests such blessings should be "spontaneous."Historic St. Paul Catholic Church in downtown Lexington says on its website that "same-sex couples who would like a blessing" can contact the church s pastor, Father Richard Watson, via phone or email.The offer, made via the church s "LGBTQ+ Ministry" page, is accompanied by a link to the Vatican s December 2023 Fiducia Supplicans declaration, which says that Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples as an expression of pastoral closeness without condoning their sexual relations. That directive says that ministers "should not prevent or prohibit the Church s closeness to people in every situation in which they might seek God s help through a simple blessing" and that pri
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