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EYE ON GOSPEL

By Margaret Mansfield

New Music: Stellar Award winner Jonathan Nelson is gearing up for his sophomore Integrity Music CD, “Better Days,” slated to release September 14. The 10-song CD of divinely-inspired affirmations was produced by Grammy Award winning producer Aaron Lindsey (Israel and New Breed, Martha Munizzi, and Marvin Sapp). Read more...

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Church Group Hosts Art Fundraiser

By Eliz Dowdy

Life Net Community Development Corporation, affiliated with Life Church of God in Christ, recently featured an innovative fund-raising event; they sponsored an art fund raiser featuring the works of Synthia Saint James, Charles Bibb, BerniE and other artists who donated their works for the showing.

The event was held atop City Hall in downtown Riverside, on the 7th floor at the Grier Pavilion. Fine art aficionados had the opportunity to bid for their favorite pieces that they could envision hanging in a prominent place in their homes or offices.

INLAND EMPIRE CHURCH BRIEFS

Community Christian College – Saturday, July 31, an Open House will be held at the Bloomington Christian High School from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The college, a private not-for-profit located in five campuses in southern California, offers a Liberal Arts Associate’s degree. Bloomington High School is located at 955 Bloomington Avenue, Bloomington.

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Vatican Sex Abuse Guidelines After Crisis

By Nicole Winfield
Associated Press Writer

The Vatican issued a revised set of in-house rules last Thursday to respond to clerical sex abuse, targeting priests who molest the mentally disabled as well as children and priests who use child pornography, but making few substantive changes to existing practice.

The new rules make no mention of the need for bishops to report clerical sex abuse to police, provide no canonical sanctions for bishops who cover up for abusers and do not include any ``one-strike and you're out'' policy for pedophile priests as demanded by some victims.

Precinct Reporter News

CDC Report: AIDS is a Black – and Poor – Disease

By George E. Curry NNPA Special Contributor Phill Wilson, president and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, has good reasons for describing AIDS as a Black di...
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The Sherrods Tell Black Press Where America Must Go From Here

By Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Editor-in-Chief Former Department of Agriculture Rural Development Director Shirley Sherrod of South West Georgia, still reeli...
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In 100th Anniversary Speech: Morial Promises NUL is Here to Stay

By Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Editor-in-Chief The National Urban League, known for its hundreds of affiliates tucked in mostly inner city neighborhoods acros...
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South Africa's Tutu To Retire From Public Life

Associated Press Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu announced recently he is retiring from public life later this year when he turns 79, saying ``the time ...
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