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...Harvard contingent of 50 joined 3,000 Christians in South Korea to top off their week-long vigil of prayer and fasting aimed at turning Harvard back from “secularism and humanism” and returning it to its Christian roots...
...Joshua Project, a local Christian group that encourages religious revivals on Massachusetts campuses, organized the vigil with the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian-American Christian Fellowship (HRAACF...
...campus, about 50 people joined the vigil on its last day, some of them students and others, the organizers said, “from the entire New England region who have a heart to pray for Harvard...
Today, the group plans to attend a vigil in Boston in honor of the day of remembrance. The day commemorates the death of Rita Hester, a transsexual woman who was killed four years ago today in Boston, as well as the deaths of other “victims of transphobia,” according to Skier...
...Awareness, a day set aside to remember those who have lost their lives because of anti-transgender fear and hatred. The Day of Remembrance began as a way to publicly grieve for Rita Hester, a transgendered woman murdered on November 28, 1998. An online monument and scattered candlelight vigils soon gathered momentum, and the scale of this year’s observance—rallies in Boston and New York, a candlelight vigil in Indianapolis, memorial services in Minneapolis-St. Paul—will hopefully draw America’s attention to her transgendered citizens and to the fear...