Local Copts demonstrate in wake of deadly bombing in Egypt
Carrying crucifixes and pictures of Jesus, protesters gather in front of the Federal Building in Westwood and call on U.S. officials to pressure the Egyptian government to provide security for that country’s Christian minority. Under a steady cold rain, members of the region’s Coptic Christian Egyptian community demonstrated in Westwood on Sunday in the wake of a New Year’s Day church bombing in …
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Will O’ The Wasp: Fatherless Children At Christmas Time
A flick of the radio dial this time of year quickly brings carols of Saint Mary cradling the young baby Jesus in the manger. Part of the miracle surrounding this night, and Christmas as practiced by many, is that Jesus allegedly didn’t have a biological father — it was a virgin birth.
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Church creates little town of Bethlehem
AURORA — From the Roman soldiers carting off thieves to the shopkeepers selling their wares to a sleeping baby Jesus, the second annual “A Night in Bethlehem” had it all.
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Gloucester County, NJ: Parishioners of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church stage sit-in
FRANKLIN — Deep in Gloucester County, the sign outside St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church is a call for the faithful to “open wide the doors to Jesus and Mary.”
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