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January 19, 2012

Baltimore City pastors draw attention to immigration reform

Saying the U.S. immigration system is broken, Baltimore City pastors called for its reform during a news conference Jan. 12 at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Baltimore.

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January 19, 2012

U.S. suspends deportation of Haitians; flow of displaced people expected

WASHINGTON – Many people who survived Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake are expected to soon be looking for new places to live, creating the potential for thousands or even hundreds of thousands of displaced people trying to settle in other countries in the region.

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January 19, 2012

Stories of hope, sadness emerge from earthquake ruins in Haiti

WASHINGTON – Here is a collection of vignettes from Haiti:

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January 19, 2012

Religious orders lose youngest members in Haiti quake

ROME – As religious orders mobilized to help the suffering people of Haiti, many of them had people sitting by computer terminals in Rome waiting to hear news about their youngest members.

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January 19, 2012

Relatives of Haiti earthquake victims gather to pray at Miami church

MIAMI – Martine Jeudi held photos of her aunt and other relatives in her hand at a Miami church Jan. 13 as she prayed for victims of the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Haiti Jan. 12 and devastated areas of Port-au-Prince, the capital.

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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien among bishops requesting collections for Haiti in all U.S. churches

WASHINGTON – Parishes across the United States have been asked to take up a second collection Jan. 16-17 to help ease “the terrible suffering of our brothers and sisters in Haiti” after a magnitude 7 earthquake.

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January 19, 2012

Baltimore-based CRS coordinating Haitian relief among Catholic agencies

WASHINGTON – Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services has been asked by the Vatican to coordinate the church’s relief and recovery efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

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January 19, 2012

People digging for loved ones under mountains of debris, says nuncio

VATICAN CITY – People have been pleading for help in digging loved ones out from under the rubble while others have fled to the hills for fear of tsunamis, said the Vatican’s nuncio to Haiti.

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January 19, 2012

Seize your second chance in this second decade

It is nearly impossible to recognize Danny Cahill, the Oklahoma land surveyor, in NBC’s Biggest Loser. But if you look closely, you can see him in the corners of his smile and the familiar glimmer in his blue eyes – hints of the former man, eight months and 239 pounds ago.

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January 19, 2012

Mosher Street, black men, and the Gospel of Matthew

Matthew 25:14-30 tells the story of the master who gave five talents to one servant, two talents to another servant and only one talent to a third servant before the master left for a long journey. The talents were distributed to the servants “each according to his abilities.”

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January 19, 2012

Baseball no longer resembles sport

In the midst of winter I think of spring. Hope springs eternal. In the midst of the football playoffs I think of baseball. I grieve the loss of baseball as a sport.

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January 19, 2012

CRS rep expects ‘thousands and thousands’ of dead, injured in Haiti

WASHINGTON – Catholic Relief Services was preparing for “thousands and thousands” of dead and injured people in the wake of the most devastating earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries, said Karel Zelenka, the agency’s country representative.

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