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CURRENT EVENT – MAY 27, 2012
The Middlesex County, New Jersey Drug Court rehabilitation program recently celebrated twenty-three graduates. For many of them, the program means a second chance in life.
CURRENT EVENT – MAY 20, 2012
Chen Guangcheng is not an anti-Communist dissident, but for the past six years his community in Shandong province, China has punished the blind lawyer and his family for exposing an illegal system of forced abortions. He since become a central figure in the campaign for civil rights in China.
CURRENT EVENT – MAY 13, 2012
The Roger Clemens perjury trial resumed on April 30. A jury has been seated and opening arguments have now been presented.
CURRENT EVENT – MAY 6, 2012
In a traditional Ojibway ceremony, Archbishop James Weisgerber, head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg, was symbolically adopted into the aboriginal community.
CURRENT EVENT – APRIL 29, 2012
As Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass before over 100,000 people on Easter Sunday, he called for an end to violence specifically in several countries, mostly in the Middle East. Most Americans probably don’t equate Christianity with the Middle East.
CURRENT EVENT – APRIL 22, 2012
On April 1, 2012, a historical election took place in the country of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. After fifty years of military-run government, Myanmar’s leaders have chosen to take steps toward democracy.
CURRENT EVENT – APRIL 15, 2012
Now that U. S. troops have begun exiting Iraq, the world waits to see how that country’s future will unfold. Thursday, March 29, 2012, Iraq seemed to stand a little taller as the United Nations Arab League held a summit on peace for Syria in Baghdad.
CURRENT EVENT – APRIL 8, 2012
In the west African country of Mauritania, slavery was officially abolished in 1981. In 2007, to enslave someone officially became a crime.