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• Red Cloud Indian School students awarded Gates Millennium Scholarship May 09, 2008 >>  more details Eight students from Red Cloud High School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation have received the coveted Gates Millennium Scholarship, tying two other schools nationwide for the highest number of scholars selected from a high school in the country. This is also the highest number of scholars to come

• Vatican Press Secretary to Receive Doctorate from Regis College in Toronto May 09, 2008 >>  more details On May 27, 2008, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., General Assistant to the Superior General and Press Secretary to Pope Benedict XVl will be honored with a Doctor of Divinity at Regis College in Toronto, Canada. Born in Saluzzo, Italy in 1942, Fr. Lombardi was ordained a priest in

• Haiti: Jesuit Declaration Exposes the Full Misery April 18, 2008 >>  more details A group of Jesuits working in Haiti has published a declaration condemning the humanitarian crisis related to food shortages in the country. The declaration, issued on 12 April, urges Haitians to continue raising their voices and crying out against the prevailing injustices that rattle the countr

• Pope Benedict XVI Begins Apostolic Visit to U.S. April 18, 2008 >>  more details The first apostolic visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States concluded this week, with stops made in Washington, DC and New York City. The trip, which ran from April 15-20, was not a simple event to coordinate, and required many lay and religious to work long hours to ensure its success.

• National Housing Trust Fund Bill Gets Hearing July 20, 2007 >>  more details A bipartisan bill to help create up to 1.5 million units of affordable housing over ten years, the National Housing Trust Fund Act of 2007 (H.R. 2895), was introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday, June 28, 2007 with 17 co-sponsors.  House Financial Services Committee Chairman Bar

• DREAM Act possible rider on Defense bill July 18, 2007 >>  more details Tens of thousands of immigrant youth may have the opportunity to remain in the United States if the DREAM Act amendment offered by Senators Durbin (D-IL), Hagel (R-NE), and Lugar (R-IN) is accepted as part of the Department of Defense authorization bill being debated by the Senate this week. The ame