Church officials are planning to review the case of an 18 year-old Catholic Pakistani girl named Mariah Manisha who was shot to death for refusing to submit to rape, a forced marriage and conversion to Islam.
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and the University of Georgia (UGA) have developed an experimental cancer vaccine that reduced tumors by 80 percent in mice models that mimicked most pancreatic and breast cancers, even those that were resistant to standard treatments.
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A new report by the Parents Television Council (PTC) has found that the top four reality shows on
MTV -
Jersey Shore, Real World, Teen Mom 2 and
16 and Pregnant are teaching young girls that it's hip to be self-denigrating, mean-spirited and promiscuous.
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Today's woman is smart, sophisticated, and adept at multi-tasking, but when she steps into a wedding dress for the first time, most become aware for the first time of the beauty of being woman.
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Families facing hard times this Christmas are getting some unexpected relief in the form of "Secret Santas" who have been popping up all over the U.S., mostly at Kmart stores, where they secretly pay off the layaway accounts for cash-strapped families.
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The priests and parishioners at St. Raymond's parish in Downey, California staged an "Occupy Christmas" event at a busy local mall where they fell on their knees in the middle of the mall and began to reverence the Eucharist.
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The U.S. Senate has voted to block President Obama's appointment of Mari Carmen Aponte as ambassador to El Salvador because of her attempts to push homosexual values on the country.
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A new report released yesterday reveals that 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States, amounting to more than 12 million men and women per year.
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A sealed box containing evidence of a miraculous healing of a seemingly stillborn baby in Illinois is on its way to Rome where it will be considered as a possible miracle attributable to the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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The number of couples who are choosing to marry in this country has dropped to record lows as more people opt for cohabitation or to delay marriage.
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