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...more than 90,000 in the U.S.--Faeza was able to turn to them for help. A few days after she arrived in the U.S., she ran into two Iraqi Americans from the local Chaldean Catholic Church, who were in the IRC office to meet Iraqi Christian refugees. When they saw Faeza, who is Muslim, they immediately offered to help. They found her a comfortable apartment in a safer neighborhood and brought her some furniture, food and a cell phone. The church also helped her set up a bank account, collect food stamps and get a driver's license...
...Christian sentiments into your books? -Steve Bohannon, PhiladelphiaI'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books. One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers...
Historically, Chinese society was relaxed about homosexuality, which was tolerated so long as it didn't interfere with the Confucian duty to raise a family. Although an imperial decree banned homosexuality in 1740 (probably under the influence of Christian missionaries), it was the communists who first drove gays and lesbians underground. The communist government once viewed gays as disruptive to social order and harshly suppressed them, imprisoning and even executing suspected homosexuals. But as China's economy opened to the world, the authorities' stance softened. A law banning sodomy was dropped in 1997, and in 2001 homosexuality was removed from...
...three separate winners in the first three big contests. And the primary will soon be followed by an explosion of contests across the map. "The accelerated, front-loaded primary calendar was supposed to create order and instead has given us chaos," says Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition, who helped orchestrate George W. Bush's victory over McCain here in 2000. "A party that abhors a vacuum is now staring into the abyss...
Mike Huckabee: Can he expand his appeal beyond his religious conservative, evangelical base? Among those who identified themselves as evangelical or born-again Christian, Huckabee beat McCain 40-27% in South Carolina. But he only won 12% of those who did not put themselves in that category...