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Holocaust survivor tells her story to high school students

From the deepest, darkest depths of human history, a tiny spark of love escaped. Her name is Paula Marks-Bolton, and the 87-year-old Holocaust survivor believes God wanted her to live so she could share her story with future generations.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev ‘entombed’ in undisclosed location

| May 9, 2013

(RNS) An undisclosed community has accepted the body of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, which is now “entombed,” according to police in Worcester, Mass.
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Importance of educating people about the Holocaust cited by Markowicz

| Apr 11, 2013

Hindea Markowicz, director of the Ruth Fajerman Markowicz Holocaust Resource Center of Greater Toledo, in introducing Holocaust survivor Paula Marks-Bolton at the annual Diversity Program, explained the importance of educating people about the Holocaust. Here is the text of her introduction.
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Vitriol infests Rick Warren family’s grief

| Apr 8, 2013

(RNS) A shocking number of people are taking the moment of media attention to lash out at Rick Warren on their digital tom-toms following the suicide of Warren’s son, Matthew.
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The joy of dying

| Apr 1, 2013

Every major religion has death -- and birth -- as its central theme. All the Scriptures guide us along the path of eternal death and the way to eternal life. God loves us and tells us -- shows us -- how to do this. And yet we fight. Why? We clearly do not trust him.
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The gift of a good death

| Feb 18, 2013

Four and a half years ago we received the news that my father-in-law was dying of esophageal cancer. We heard the news at our grandfather's funeral. So, while grieving the loss of one well-loved man, we were simultaneously projecting ahead to the loss of another well-loved man. It was one of those moments when feelings get all mixed up with facts and everything sort of blurs together.
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Catholic hospital says fetus defense was ‘morally wrong’

| Feb 6, 2013

Legal advice trumped church teaching when a Catholic hospital in Colorado tried to defend itself in a wrongful death lawsuit by claiming that twin fetuses who died at the hospital in 2006, along with the mother, should not be considered persons.
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‘Good Grief’ group to offer help for children

| Jan 16, 2013

A group of concerned citizens is banding together to start a nonprofit organization, Good Grief of Northwest Ohio, to help children cope with the thoughts and feelings they experience after the death of a loved one. Among those helping Good Grief get started is Kaye Lani Raye Rafko-Wilson, the 1988 Miss America who lives in Monroe, Mich.
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A lesson from a painful memory

| Jan 15, 2013

Today I’m 15 years old again. I’m wearing a plaid shirt. My hair is in a ponytail. I just said happy birthday to my friend and left school. I’m outside now, walking home. But now I’m frozen, my legs anchored to the sand beneath me.
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Shouldn’t we honor a dying wish?

| Jan 15, 2013

She was 97 years old, very frail and near her dying day. She received hospice care at home because her dying wish was to die in her own bed, her own house. Her family made it a priority to honor her dying wish. Jesus made a dying wish, in John 17:11. Shouldn't Jesus' followers strive to honor that dying wish?
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Drones cause harm beyond physical injury

| Dec 9, 2012

On Nov. 30 my friend, Iowa peace activist Brian Terrell, presented himself to the Federal Prison Camp at Yankton, S.D., to begin serving a six-month sentence for a protest against drones. He was convicted of trespassing at Missouri’s Whiteman Air Force Base to protest the use of armed, unmanned military drones.
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