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In this Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 file photo,toppled and damaged headstones rest on the ground at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Rachel Zoll - Associated Press
The Anti-Defamation League found evidence that anti-Jewish bias intensified during the election.
The silver dome of Our Lady of the Spasm Armenian Catholic Church and the golden Dome of the Rock rise over the Old City of Jerusalem. (iStock/rrodrickbeiler)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Clarke
In Europe the Christian population is dying faster than it is being replaced. In North America, the number of Christian deaths will begin to exceed the number of births to Christian parents by around 2050.
No fun allowed? The northbound Bakerloo line platform at Edgware Road
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Stewart
The London police have issued a statement asking "D.J.s to refrain from using the Tube as a pop-up club.”
Rum—it's not just for pirates anymore. Photo courtesy of Rob V. Burr.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Tim Padgett
We are seeing rum rehabilitated. Rum respected. A rum revolution. Or as connoisseurs like to call it, a rum renaissance.
Sandra Green Thomas, representing the descendants of 272 sold into slavery in 1838, speaks at Georgetown University's Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition and Hope.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin ClarkeTeresa Donnellan
Georgetown University and the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States began a process of penance and restitution, acknowledging an institutional sin in 1838 which preserved the university but condemned 272 to slavery in Louisiana.
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Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
Almost every lily any of us in the United States will see this Easter comes from the very same tiny area at the northwest border of California.