Religion
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State Senate votes to repeal abortion notification law
Oct 26, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Senate advanced a measure to repeal the state's Parental Notice of Abortion Act early Tuesday evening amid staunch opposition from Republicans...
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Biden, orthodox patriarch discuss climate, religious freedom
Oct 25, 2021 7:00 am - President Joe Biden and the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians discussed ways to fight climate change and to end the coronavirus pandemic as well as the imp...
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Don't trash pumpkins, compost them at West Chicago church Nov. 6Oct 24, 2021 11:00 pm - Remind relatives, neighbors, and friends not to throw pumpkins in the trash, but to compost them in the Pumpkin Smash from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 6, at First Unit...
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Good News Sunday: St. Charles canine wins 'World's Cutest Rescue Dog Contest'Oct 24, 2021 7:30 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: Move over, Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McC...
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Pope: Don't send migrants back to Libya and 'inhumane' camps
Oct 24, 2021 7:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Sunday made an impassioned plea to end the practice of returning migrants rescued at sea to Libya and other unsafe countries where th...
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Biden to meet Pope Francis amid some rifts with US bishops
Oct 23, 2021 7:00 am - There's an intriguing subplot to President Joe Biden's upcoming meeting with Pope Francis. The world's two most prominent Roman Catholics will be celebrating a shared ou...
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A moving 'reunion' for descendants of Holocaust survivors
Oct 23, 2021 7:00 am - WESTLAKE, Texas (AP) - Anna Salton Eisen found the old pictures of Jewish prisoners who survived the Holocaust in a folder her late father, George Lucius Salton, kept mo...
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Orthodox Church's top patriarch to visit US, meet with Biden
Oct 22, 2021 7:00 am - The spiritual leader of the world's 200 million Eastern Orthodox Christians brings an agenda spanning religious, political and environmental issues to a 12-day U.S. visi...
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McHenry's Tree of Life UU welcomes interim music directorOct 21, 2021 11:00 pm - The Tree of Life Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 5603 Bull Valley Road in McHenry, has appointed a new interim music director to aid the congregation in providing q...
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The last nun? Sister Leticia's retirement at St. Joseph Hospital could end nearly 120-year streakOct 21, 2021 5:30 am - Nuns have been a presence at the many iterations of St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin since it was founded in 1902 by the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart. When Sister ...