After nearly five years of discussions and planning, a new grouping of the major Christian traditions in the United States, including Roman Catholics as well as Evangelical and Pentecostal denominations, has been formally launched.
At Greyston Bakery located in a rough borough of New York City, they don't hire people to bake brownies, they bake brownies to hire people. You've tasted chunks of Greyston brownies if you've ever dug into Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors like Chocolate Fudge Brownie and Half Baked.
The most aggressive cat in the neighborhood, a stray animal at the time, was adopted by a woman with a blind and partially deaf dog. A friendship between the two animals blossomed until the cat began taking Tervel the dog, who previously needed to stay in his basket, for walks in the countryside.
In Texas last month, emergency responders witnessed the touching animal loyalty that perhaps only a dog can exemplify. 20 miles into their race to the hospital, ambulance personnel were alerted that a dog was hanging on to the side of the vehicle.
13 Palestinian girls and boys from a West Bank refugee camp traveled on March 25 with their musical director to Israel to sing for elderly Holocaust survivors. The event, held at the Holocaust Survivors Center in Holon, was part of "Good Deeds Day," an annual event there. Most of the elderly did not know the youths […]
Nico the Bernese mountain dog was rescued from a shelter just a couple months ago. Now he's done some rescuing of his own — pulling two swimmers to safety after they were caught in dangerous rip currents off the Southern California coast.
He was found near a dumpster, skinny and alone, just a few months ago. Julio Cruz was a little nervous to adopt the pit bull-mix stray, but took her in and nursed her back to health. Today, Cruz and his roommate -- and all his neighbors -- have "Pekita" to thank for saving their lives