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...what do they want?”Tobaccowala, who is president of the South Asian Association, said that the group is in the process of discussing about what kind of response they will have. She said they will plan a vigil for this week on the steps of Memorial Church, and hope to co-sponsor the event with other groups like Harvard Hillel and the Interfaith Council.She said that SAA has plans to connect the attacks in Mumbai with preexisting plans for passport to South Asia week, starting Dec. 6. ‘NEED TO COME TOGETHER’Professor...
...they set out to become the "premiere leadership organization for girls." Troops and badges will still exist - but girls can also choose to take "journeys" instead, opting, for instance, to make a six-week foray into the community for service, rather than meeting once a month in a church basement...
...simple faith in neighborliness was insufficient even for the Church of England, whose insurers Ecclesiastical have now issued SmartWater kits to 16,500 churches. Last year churches were stripped of $18 million-worth of lead roofing, lightning rods and even bells. "If thieves know about it - and they do already - they will think twice about targeting churches," says Ecclesiastical spokesman Chris Pitt. That's the kind of thinking SmartWater is convinced more secular enterprises will embrace...
...than the national average. Not good news in a country with Asia's highest growing HIV-infection rate, but not everyone thinks microchipping is the way to improve the situation. The proposed bill, now with the provincial parliament, has encountered fierce resistance from local health workers, government officials and church leaders, who say the practice would constitute a human rights violation and do little to address Papua's high infection rate. "Two wrongs do not make a right, and the plan to implant HIV people with microchips is definitely wrong," says Elisabeth Pisani, an epidemiologist and former AIDS researcher...
...more energy if they pointed directly south, that orientation would have required adding a structure to the graveyard, and so the city decided against it. Perhaps as a result, Santa Coloma's citizens posed little resistance to the project. Says Serret: "Even the priest of the city's biggest church is collaborating with us." Santiago Pérez likewise says he hasn't heard any complaints from his neighbors. "Why would anyone care if you're producing a little light at the cemetery?" he asks. "They bring candles there, don't they...