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IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz MuthBy Chaz MuthWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Almsgiving is a Lenten tradition and Washingtonresident Ron Van Bellen says his volunteer work feeding the homeless honors hisCatholic faith as he prepares for Easter.The real estate agent and parishioner at Holy TrinityCatholic Church in Georgetown was one of several volunteers dishing up dinnerfor homeless men and women lined up March 8 for the weekly St. Maria's mealsprogram sponsored by Catholic Charities each Wednesday evening.Van Bellen took time to greet each man and woman who wentthrough the food line before they made their way along the downtown Washingtonsidewalk to eat their dinner."Every time I volunteer I reflect on how my day went and howit related to my relationship with God," he told Catholic News Service. "Itdoes relate to Lent. We have to sacrifice and serve our brothers and sisters."Van Bellen's example of helping the homeless during Lent isa Catholic value that Washington's Catholic Charities president an...
NEW YORK (AP) -- After 42 seasons, "Saturday Night Live" is trying something new: airing live to everybody....
READING, Pa. (AP) -- A pastor in a fundamentalist Christian sect that rejects doctors and drugs has been charged in the death of a child - his own granddaughter - from medical neglect. The novel prosecution is raising hopes among some advocates that it might spur change in a church that has resisted it....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Should a chimpanzee be treated as a person with legal rights?...
HONOLULU (AP) -- The U.S. Army soldiers finished wading across a stream in a rainforest in Hawaii, and they were soaked. Their boots and socks were water-logged and their clothes, hair and ears were caked with mud....
PARIS (AP) -- A 16-year-old student who had problematic relations with his peers opened fire at a high school in southern France on Thursday, wounding at least two other students and the principal who tried to intervene, officials said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Short of votes for their health care bill, Republican congressional leaders turned to President Donald Trump on Thursday to wrangle support for the divisive legislation they hope to push through Congress before Easter....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- There is no indication that Trump Tower was "the subject of surveillance" by the U.S. government before or after the 2016 election, the top two members of the Senate intelligence committee said Thursday, directly contradicting President Donald Trump's claims....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump unveiled a $1.15 trillion budget Thursday, proposing a far-reaching overhaul of federal spending that would slash many domestic programs to finance a big increase for the military and make a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Inside a small apartment in a San Diego suburb, Nadia Hanan Madalo sat before tins of kebab, roasted chicken, and tomato and cucumber salad. Her refugee flight credential still hung around her neck, as her children played with cousins they had only seen on Internet phone chats before this night....
