Did you know that on any given day throughout the world, one person commits suicide every 40 seconds? That's more than all the annual victims of wars and natural disasters combined!
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A major study has dispelled the myth that divorce is easier on children if the parents maintain an amiable relationship after their separation when it found that the negative impact remains the same regardless of whether or not the parents remain friends.
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A new poster campaign taking place at 25 colleges in the U.S. and Mexico encourages students to question the "hook-up" culture so rampant on campuses and to choose healthier alternatives.
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A federal judge in Louisiana has upheld the state's constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, saying that citizens and their elected officials should define marriage, not the court system.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A Catholic family in upstate New York has been forced to give up their wedding business for refusing to "marry" two lesbians, a situation that is becoming all too common in America where Christians are now routinely forced out of business by militant homosexuals who are intent on bullying the population into accepting their practices regardless of religious belief.
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One of the big news stories this week is about how the government has just enlisted members of academia to begin to "police" online opinion for possible "misinformation", but a new study has found that people are not as anxious to share their views on-line as most of us believe.
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Lawyers representing a Tennessee school student who was suspended for saying "God bless you" after a fellow student sneezed in class are demanding that the school not only exonerate the student, but to publicly apologize to her and change their unconstitutional rules.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Even while racial tensions are soaring in Ferguson, Missouri, the healing power of forgiveness changed the lives of two men - black and white - just 400 miles away.
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In what police are calling the most cold-hearted case yet, a 34 year-old Brooklyn woman was punched in the face and knocked unconscious while walking down the street with her mother.
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The recent scandal of an Australian couple who abandoned a baby with Down Syndrome born to a surrogate mother in Thailand has caused the Thai government to crackdown on the industry, leaving several couples stranded in the country who are now unable to leave with their surrogate-born babies.
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