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...road adventures over the shared meal. "Our happiness and health are much better in this lifestyle," says Russell, 64. "We have no worries here." "The only downside is that we don't have a church anymore," says his neighbor Wyn Hull, 73, who was active in her Greenville, S.C., parish before she and her husband took to the road seven years ago. "It's nice to visit other churches, but you have to make more of an effort...
...whose right-wing Patriotic Party has a very slight lead over left-leaning businessman Alvaro Colom in some opinion polls - has been the subject of allegations in a new book on the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan human rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the parish house of his Guatemala City church the day after he published an exhaustive report of human rights violations by the Guatemalan army during the civil war. Although three military officers were convicted of the murder and jailed in 2001, Guatemalan-American writer Francisco Goldman claims a key witness identified Molina...
...That controversy might have blown over - allegations of patronage politics are nothing new in a country that often seems still to be feeling the long hangover from Marcos' kleptocracy - if not for a concurrent scandal allegedly involving payouts to lawmakers. On Oct. 15, a provincial governor - and former parish priest - said that he and other lawmakers had been handed paper bags full of cash during an Oct. 11 breakfast meeting at the presidential palace. The administration has denied the money came from Arroyo. Two weeks after the alleged handouts, the country's League of Provinces, a lobbying group of governors...
...after the Vatican II meeting in Colombia declared the church should focus more on Christ and less on saints and other icons. That ruling led many priests to remove beautiful sculptures of the Virgin Mary and other saints from display. Some were sold, often to raise money for a parish, and a whole new market was created...
...Jindal is up against three viable contenders, including Boasso, a portly one-term state senator from hurricane-ravaged St. Bernard Parish who has a compelling backstory of his own: he started his successful shipping-tank-cleaning business, Boasso America, with little more than "a box of Tide and a garden hose," as he likes to tell people. Last April, after state Republican party leadership endorsed Jindal and when it became clear that Breaux was out of the race, Boasso switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, and he has spent the ensuing weeks burnishing his regular-guy image. Public...