PEOPLE IN AMERICA - November 3, 2002: Jacob Riis By Herbert Sutcliffe VOICE 1: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE 2: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Every week at

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AS IT IS 2015-09-03 Pope Allows Priests to Forgive 'Sin of Abortion' Pope Francis is calling his priests to forgive women of the sin of abortion during the upcoming Holy Year of Mercy. The Pope guides more than a billion Roman Catholics worldwide. He

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight, I'm Christy Van Arragon. Voice 2 And I'm Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier to for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. I am sorry Voice 1 This phras

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Death just isn't what it used to be. Once a month, followers attend mass at the Santa Muerte Shrine and pray to the so-called Death Saint, often depicted as a skeleton dressed in a black cloak and carrying a scythe, or in a long flowing white gown. S

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Lesson 36 第36章 The Dead and Alive City 死亡而又活着的城市 Two thousand years ago you could start out on any road anywhere, and if you kept on going far enough 两千年前,如果你从地球上的任意一个地方的任意一条路出发

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Reverend Meza, Reverend Reck, I'm grateful for your generous invitation to state my views. While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that I believe that we have

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Death just isn't what it used to be. Once a month, followers attend mass at the Santa Muerte Shrine and pray to the so-called Death Saint, often depicted as a skeleton dressed in a black cloak and carrying a scythe, or in a long flowing white gown.

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Adam and Constance were very religious. Both had been raised in Catholic families. Except for her uncle Chandler, who was agnostic, all their relatives were devout Catholics. Adams oldest brother was, in fact, a priest. Adam, as a youth, had been an

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Jacob Riis: A Reporter and Writer Who Worked to Make New York City a Better Place for the Poor Written by Herbert Sutcliffe VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Jacob

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Don't Be an April Fool! 整人有理,只在愚人节! If it is the morning of April 1 and you see some money on the ground, perhaps you should think twice before you pick it up. It might have been glued there by someone keen to turn you into an A

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As It Is - Pope to Visit S. Korea on First Asian Trip 教皇首次亚洲之旅访问韩国 The head of the Roman Catholic church will visit South Korea later this month. It will be the first visit of a pope to an Asian country in almost 20 years, and

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EXPLORATIONS - Visiting the Beautiful Missions Along Californias Coast FAITH LAPIDUS: Im Faith Lapidus. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the first attempts to settle what is now the wester

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Great Writers: Flannery O'Connor Told of Small-Town Life in the South By Richard Thorman Broadcast: Sunday, July 10, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'

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AS IT IS 2014-11-23 Latin America Catholics Converting to Protestants 大量拉丁美洲天主教众皈依新教 Almost 40 percent of the worlds Catholic population, about 425 million people, lives in Latin America. In 2013, for the first time in his

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美国同性婚姻裁决对现实生活造成的影响 Gay rights backers celebrated outside the Supreme Court Friday, including Lena Hernandez. 星期五同性恋权利的支持者们在最高法院欢庆胜利,其中就有莉娜埃尔南德斯。 T

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-Mardi Gras is a traditional holiday celebrated in many of the southern states of the USA. The most famous celebration takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. The people there enjoy this celebration by going to parades where they catch beads, doubloon

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There is no doubt that Catholic churches had a contentious relationship with sex and prostitution. The modern church feels that sexual act is sacred within a contested married relationship, and that all sexual acts outside the marriage are great thin

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The church also prohibited freelancers and streetwalkers who weren't working for the church. It's a lot like' and I trust the law now. They are monopolizing and controlling a very, very lucrative market. The Catholic church was a spiritual entity, bu

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IN THE NEWS -April 20, 2002: US Cardinals Called to Vatican By Caty Weaver Pope John Paul II This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS. The leader of the Roman Catholic Chur

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight, I'm Christy Van Arragon. Voice 2 And I'm Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier to for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. I am sorry Voice 1 This phras

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