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Editor’s Note: Connie Doss is the mother of Clare Doss, one of the 2 million kids expected to attend the final session of World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain. While Connie’s husband, Barry, is helping chaperone the group of teens and young adults from Green Forest and Berryville, Arkansas, Connie watches the event from her armchair.…

Half a million people participated in Anaheim’s 22nd annual Harvest Crusade — 115,000 in person and 404,222 online, reports Eric Carpenter writing for the Orange County Register newspaper. Hosted by 215 churches from Riverside to Irvine to Temecula, the event hosted by local pastor Greg Laurie drew people from 34 states and 11 countries. At the…

The Church of Scientology has backed down from its plan to set up a recruiting stall at a shopping center in Leith, Scotland. The group had applied for a street traders’ license for a booth in the New Kirkgate Centre, reports Sue Gyford for the Edinburgh Evening News. The application had generated a firestorm of protest from local residents, the area’s community…

The earthquake and tsunami that walloped Japan left much of its coastline ravaged, but left one thing intact, reports ABC News: the Japanese reputation for honesty. “In the five months since the disaster struck,” reports Akiko Fujita for ABC, “people have turned in thousands of wallets found in the debris, containing $48 million in cash.” More than…
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