As policymakers continue to debate how to better reintegrate former felons into society, some ex-convicts have taken matters into their own hands by forming a nonprofit advocacy group in East Palo Alto, Calif., reports the Los Angeles Times. All of Us or None has succeeded in enlisting the help of…
A Norwegian town’s unique fund-raising effort to track its moose population by selling naming rights to each animal has proven so popular that there are only “four or five” left unnamed in the Vegaarshei township in southern Norway, reports the Associated Press. Large corporate sponsors, in…
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BOSTON CATHOLIC CHARITIES DISPUTE
Seven board members of the Catholic Charities of Boston resigned Wednesday to protest an effort by Massachusetts bishops to prohibit gays from adopting children from Catholic social-service groups, reports The Boston Globe. One board member who quit said some donors to Catholic Charities may…
Catholic Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Wednesday said he would order his priests to defy proposed federal legislation that would require churches and charities to ask immigrants for legal documentation before providing aid, reports the Los Angeles Times. The proposal…
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has received praise from other museum directors for his decision to return about two dozen prized Classical antiquities to Italy because they were probably looted, reports The New York Times. But in an interview with the newspaper,…
The British government failed to provide adequate oversight of $87-million it gave to United Nations groups and charities to help survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunamis, reports Reuters. According to a report by the National Audit Office, a British government watchdog, some of the grant recipients…