Threats to Religious Freedom in Europe Religious freedom is often called America's first freedom. It is the first freedom America's founders included in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights. Speaking at the recently concluded Ministerial to Advance

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December 15th, 1961, an Israeli court sentences former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann to death for his role in the holocaust during World War II. He is hanged the following year, denying to the end his responsibility for the Nazis mass killing of Jews

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Good morning, well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning. After I received the news, Malia walked in, and said, Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bos birthday. And then Sasha added, Plus we have a three-day weekend coming

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The Golden Globe goes to, Slumdog Millionaire. Slumdog Millionaire, about an orphan who goes on Indias version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire won 4 for 4, winning best picture drama, plus score, screen play and directing honors. The Globes just giv

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Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in the United Kingdom. The 83-year-old Pontiff was greeted by the Queen in Edinburgh before celebrating Mass for 70,000 Scottish Catholics. He told the crowd that secularism in the UK threatened to damage society and tha

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Rwandan Youth Village Flourishes Its been 19 years since the Rwandan genocide. Much has been done regarding reconciliation and rebuilding. But the work continues, including helping those who became orphans during and after the mass killings. At a you

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This is AP news minute. 1. President-elect Donald Trump is back in New York, taking meetings at Trump Tower, with former rivals and long-time allies. This comes a day after he indicated he's worked out agreements to fill major posts in his administra

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Adventures in the second grade 二年级时的冒险 At high school, mikes homespun humour was the cause of much laughter. If truth be known, though, many of his oft repeated stories soon began to ring a little hollow. Still, the lack of respect shown by h

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The email was sent by Olov Bygren. He was studying the population records of an obscure town in northern Sweden, Overkalix. What made these records unique was their detail. They recorded births and de

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But could this effect be transmitted to their offspring? They found nearly 200 women of whom a number had actually been in the Twin Towers. About half of them developed post-traumatic stress disorder.

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: how an English teacher found an unexpected lesson in the Nazi Final Solution -- Hitler's effort to exterminate the Jewish people during World War Two. RS: The Holocaust was in the

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Leo Trepp sees modern message of freedom in ritual Lonny Shavelson | San Rafael, California 02 April 2010 This is the 74th year Trepp is conducting a Passover seder. Watch This week, Jews began the holiday of Passover with seders, ritual dinners with

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1.President Barack Obama toured Germanys Buchenwald concentration camp Friday. He said the camp where an estimated 56,000 people died is the ultimate rebuke to Holocaust deniers and skeptics. 2.France and Brazil are disagreeing over what has or has

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Pope Benedict's planned visit to Rome's main Jewish synagogue on Sunday has sharply divided Jews. Some have been angered by his efforts to push World War II Pope Pius XII toward sainthood. Pope Benedict has visited Jewish synagogues before, but never

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June 6th, 1944. Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandie, France, in the D-Day invasion of WWII. Commanding the massive operation General Dwight Eisenhower who tells the troops: You are about to embark upon the great crusade towards which we have

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Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian cityof Sloviansk have released one of the eight membersof an international observer mission, they've beenholding since Friday. Five Ukrainian observers all saidhave been held. Bethany Bell reports. 乌克

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今天我们要学的词是 genocide. Genocide 名词,种族灭绝。Pope Francis called the Ottoman-era slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians a genocide and urged the world never to forget it. 教宗方济各称奥斯曼时代150万亚美尼亚人

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Chapter one is 1949 to 1991, when the Soviet Union broke up, 第一个时期从1949年到1991年苏联解体 and what we were dealing with, at that point and through those years, was a superpowers' nuclear arms race. 我们要关注的是在这些年间

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After hours of heated discussion, European leaders have agreed to take in tens of thousands migrants who've arrived in the EU, but only on a voluntary basis. More than 150,000 migrants have attempted to enter the EU this year. Damian Grammaticas In B

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