Religion
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What can we learn from the madness of March 2020?Mar 08, 2022 10:00 pm - It's been a crazy couple of years, right? We were all ready to fill out our brackets back in 2020, but the March Madness we banked on being able to follow rimmed out. R...
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Lent is all about fasting and prayerMar 08, 2022 10:00 pm - "After fasting forty days and forty nights, Jesus was hungry." - Matthew 4:1 (ESV) Last week began the season of Lent, when many Christians observe the spiritual princip...
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Yorkville Lutherans host Norwegian-American folk dancersMar 07, 2022 10:00 pm - Cross Lutheran Church in Yorkville hosted the Stoughton Norwegian Dancers Sunday, March 6. The performance was sponsored by Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 4-472, a Mont...
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Elgin's First Congregational Church continues spring concert seriesMar 06, 2022 10:00 pm - This year marks the return of First Congregational Church's Spring Concert Series. The "Celebration of Music," which began March 6, continues on Sundays through April 1...
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Live updates: Pope Francis dispatches 2 cardinals to Ukraine
Mar 06, 2022 6:00 am - The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war: -- VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis says he has dispatched two cardinals to Ukraine, a highly unusual move. The pontiff sa...
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Jehovah's Witnesses flee Russia for worship without fear
Mar 06, 2022 6:00 am - Over the past five years, hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses have been subjected to raids, arrests and prosecution in Russia. Many others have fled '“ including one couple,...
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Kyiv shrines, memorials with powerful symbolic value at risk
Mar 03, 2022 6:00 am - Kyiv, bracing for a potentially catastrophic Russian attack, is the spiritual heart of Ukraine. Among the sites at risk in the Ukrainian capital are the nation's most sa...
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Prayer as 'spiritual warfare': Palatine churches hold 2-mile pilgrimage for UkraineMar 03, 2022 12:00 am - Olga Byc gets tears in her eyes when she talks about the anguish of worrying about the fate of her cousins in Ukraine. They live on farmland in the western part of the c...
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Christ Church to aid global outreach efforts for UkraineMar 02, 2022 10:00 pm - Christ Church Oak Brook and Butterfield is mounting an immediate drive to collect and ship critical relief materials to Europe to aid Ukrainian refugees who are expected...
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Arlington Heights church provides 'Ashes on the Go'Mar 02, 2022 12:00 am - Despite the noise from arriving and departing trains in the background, Alan Medsker performed a solemn duty Wednesday offering an abbreviated imposition of ashes to com...