With the Taliban now in full control of Afghanistan, females in that country could face discrimination and hardships not seen in two decades, experts and women’s rights advocates said.
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With the Taliban now in full control of Afghanistan, females in that country could face discrimination and hardships not seen in two decades, experts and women’s rights advocates said.
Red roses and Italian flags held aloft, as well as a cannon spewing gold-colored confetti, marked the return of a beloved neighborhood tradition that had been sorely missed last summer — the Feast of Santa Rosalia.
Christian Santo died last year of heart failure at age 27, but in many ways, his memory will live on — in nature and in the world of college sports.
The legacy of Kaitlyn Rose Bernhardt, a beloved 15-year-old from St. Bernard Parish who passed away in 2018, lives on in Mill Basin, Brooklyn — and in a small rural village in India.
There are mile stones that are embedded in the minds of people of a certain generation. Everyone knows where they were when they learned that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, everyone was glued to their television when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and everyone remembers how they felt on August 16, 1977, when Elvis Presley passed away at just 42 years old.
In the United States, 16-year-old boys can enjoy plenty of diversions — sports, skateboards, PlayStations — but when Father Celestine Anyanwu was 16, he was diving into hastily dug trenches to escape air raids.
Catholic school teachers Elvira Kunz and Victoria Vitulli can personally attest to Mark Twain’s famous quote, “Find a job you enjoy doing and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
For Father Albert Amakyi, once again it’s summertime in, of all places, New York.
As curtains are rising once again along the Great White Way, so are concerns among Catholic members of the theater community.
On the evening of June 23, a couple hundred Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishioners kicked off the Giglio Season with the annual “Taking Out of the Boat.”