Inside the rebuilding of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, 5 years after devastating fire
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Inside the rebuilding of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, 5 years after devastating fire

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Top Stories Tamfitronics World·PhotosOver the last several years, few outside the organization tasked with rebuilding the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris have been allowed onto the construction site and up onto the scaffolding. But, months ahead of the official reopening to the public, CBC News obtained rare permission to do just that.Months ahead of the official public reopening, CBC News obtained rare permission to tour the siteCBC News · Posted: Jul 24, 2024 10:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours agoScaffolding over the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, which is being rebuilt, in June 2024. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)With just days to go until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, many people may be casting their minds back to more than five years ago, when the city's treasured Notre-Dame Cathedral was engulfed in flames.It...
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Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition
24 Jul
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Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition

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Top Stories Tamfitronics HINCKLEY, Minn. (AP) — At summertime social powwows and spiritual ceremonies throughout the Upper Midwest, Native Americans are gathering around singers seated at big, resonant drums to dance, celebrate and connect with their ancestral culture.“I grew up singing my entire life, and I was always taught that dewe’igan is the heartbeat of our people,” said Jakob Wilson, 19, using the Ojibwe term for drum that’s rooted in the words for heart and sound. “The absolute power and feeling that comes off of the drum and the singers around it is incredible.”Wilson has led the drum group at Hinckley-Finlayson High School. In 2023, Wilson’s senior year, they were invited to drum and sing at graduation. But this year, when his younger sister Kaiya graduated, the school board barred them from performing at the...
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Court battle to keep Annunciation House open continues in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment
24 Jul
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Court battle to keep Annunciation House open continues in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (The Conversation) — Over the past few months, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been locked in a court battle with Annunciation House, a network of shelters in the El Paso area that assists migrants with basic needs and legal aid. On July 2, 2024, district court Judge Francisco Dominguez issued a ruling denying Paxton’s attempt to shut down Annunciation House. Paxtonappealed two weeks later.In his original suit, Paxton sought to rescind Annunciation House’s ability to operate as a nonprofit in Texas, alleging that its efforts to assist migrants amount to “human smuggling.”Dominguez stated in his ruling that Paxton’s demands for documents from Annunciation House were simply a pretext to achieve a predetermined outcome of closing the shelter and that, rather than gathering evidence first, Paxton had assumed a crime and then...
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African faith leaders call for debt forgiveness in 2025 Jubilee year
24 Jul
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African faith leaders call for debt forgiveness in 2025 Jubilee year

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Top Stories Tamfitronics NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — African faith leaders are calling for debt forgiveness as the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee year approaches to help their countries tackle growing economic crises.“We urgently need a new debt jubilee to bring hope to humankind, and to bring the planet back from the brink of becoming uninhabitable,” said 27 religious leaders from 13 countries, addressing the G20, G7, United Nations, IMF and World Bank in a July 19 statement.Participants in the Kigali, Rwanda, meeting included representatives from the Catholic Church as well as Anglicans, Lutherans, other Protestants, Muslims and both interfaith and national councils of churches. The clergy are frontline witnesses to the rising costs of living, wars, vulnerable health care systems, climate change, pandemic impacts and other economic challenges that are stirring discontent across the continent. The faith...
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