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Local reaction to death of bin Laden

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Local reaction to death of bin Laden
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C.: I was pleased to receive a phone call from Vice President Biden informing me of the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by U.S. Forces. I relayed to the Vice President my congratulations on this historic day. Events such as this do not happen accidently and require great personal sacrifice and courage. God bless those who put themselves in harm’s way to …
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Chants from Last Night: Overheard at Ground Zero
Nearly ten years after Osama bin Laden enacted his plot to destroy the World Trade Center, a throng of jubilant New Yorkers flocked to the site of the wreckage to celebrate the terrorist’s death. Things got loud. The noise leaked down into nearby Subway stations and as the cranes shadowing ground zero got closer the songs became audible. It sang “God Bless the U.S.A.,” “America the Beautiful …
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Abbas government welcomes bin Laden death, Hamas deplores
Hamas condemned on Monday the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden as the assassination of an Arab holy warrior, differing sharply with the Palestinian Authority, the Islamist group’s partner in a new unity deal.
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Local Copts demonstrate in wake of deadly bombing in Egypt

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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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