Arkansas school voucher program clearly supports religious instruction • Arkansas Advocate
On April 1, as a room full of elementary students looked on, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders touted the successes of Arkansas’ year-old education freedom accounts, otherwise known as school vouchers. Sanders noted that the success of the voucher program’s first year among military families enabled Fort Smith’s Harvest Time Academy to add a grade level […]
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Rome mayor promises Pope a more ‘presentable, inclusive’ city for Jubilee 2025
ROME – In a half-hour audience with Pope Francis on Friday, Rome’s Mayor Roberto Gualtieri reported that more than 1,400 public work sites are open across the city, the lion’s share in preparation for the Jubilee Year of 2025, and vowed that the city will be “not only cleaner and more presentable, but also more […]
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Meet the ‘holy mayor’ behind Pope Francis’s Mediterranean strategy
ROME – Once upon a time, the ancient Romans referred to the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum, “Our Sea,” expressing a sort of proprietary claim on the body of water and the lands that surround it, which today include roughly 30 independent states in Southern Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. The Roman Empire in its […]
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