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Associated Press Jerusalem – President Shimon Peres said Tuesday that he is hopeful about an upcoming Mideast peace conference and praised the relationship developing between the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president. In his first appearance as Israel’s president before foreign reporters, the 84-year-old Nobel Peace laureate blamed Islamic militants for harsh Israeli restrictions…

Associated Press – September 17, 2007 ST. GEORGE, Utah – A young woman who said she was forced to enter an arranged marriage at age 14 testified Monday that she never complained to her mother or sisters that she was being raped. “I never told anyone,” the woman, now 21, said during cross-examination at the…

Associated Press – September 17, 2007 JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia – For the first time ever, a group of women in the only country that bans female drivers have formed a committee to lobby for the right to get in the driver’s seat. They plan to petition King Abdullah in the next few days for that…

By Nancy Haught PORTLAND, Ore. — Jean Bucciarelli remembers the Sunday last May when someone urged her congregation to become a sanctuary church — to actively support illegal immigrants who want to stay in this country. “Someone said, `Let’s just do it,”‘ she recalls. Some members of Ainsworth United Church of Christ were ready, but…
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