Christians reaffirm faith during Holy Week

Christians reaffirm faith during Holy Week
For the past 40 days, many of the world’s estimated 2 billion Christians have fasted, given something up — chocolate or alcohol, say, or a bad habit — or spent time in this season they call Lent in quiet contemplation of their lives, much as Jesus of Nazareth did out in the desert more than 2,000 years ago. ¶ That time alone in the wilderness was meant to prepare Jesus for what was to become a …
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Child killed by wreck, man charged with intoxicated manslaughter
Tyler Police suspect 33-year-old Jesus Soto was driving drunk with two young girls in the car when he crashed into a truck at the intersection of West Gentry and Bois d’Arc around 9 p.m. Friday.
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Some south Sudanese Christians see independence from Muslim north as fullfillment of prophecy

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Some south Sudanese Christians see independence from Muslim north as fullfillment of prophecy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For some Christians from south Sudan, their opportunity to vote for independence from the largely Muslim north is more than a condition of a peace accord that ending two decades of civil war. It is, they think, the divine will of God.
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Some south Sudanese Christians see independence from Muslim north as fullfillment of prophecy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For some Christians from south Sudan, their opportunity to vote for independence from the largely Muslim north is more than a condition of a peace accord that ending two decades of civil war. It is, they think, the divine will of God.
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