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IMAGE: CNS photo/Gerry Serrano, courtesy St. Mary's CollegeBy Michele JurichMORAGA, Calif. (CNS) -- The smallspace has served over the years as the pastor's office, a reconciliation roomand the office of an Episcopal parish-without-walls whose members worship onthe St. Mary's College of California campus in Moraga.Now it has a new purpose as the InterfaithSacred Space. It provides a place of prayer for students, faculty and staffmembers who might have otherwise sought out the rare, vacant classroom forprayer at the Catholic college.The college's Office of Missionand Ministry shepherded the project with input from students. The cozy space, dedicatedthis fall, can be entered through the back of St. Mary's Chapel or through adoor on the arcade facing the front of the campus.It is simply furnished, with asmall chest to hold texts; a basket, which, on a recent visit, held threeprayer rugs; and another rug and pillows that soften the space. The lighting islow. A digital clock in the corne...
HOUSTON (AP) -- Craig Sager never once thought about giving up as he battled cancer for more than two years....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday blocked until at least next month hotly debated Texas rules mandating burial or cremation of fetal remains that were set to go into effect within days....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The revelation of Yahoo's latest hack underscores what many Americans have known for years: All those emails, photos and other personal files stored online can easily be stolen, and there's little anyone can do about it....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news on its huge and influential social network. It will focus on the "worst of the worst" offenders and partner with outside fact-checkers and news organizations to sort honest news reports from made-up stories that play to people's passions and preconceived notions....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new scientific report finds man-made climate change played some role in two dozen extreme weather events last year but not in a few other weird weather instances around the world....
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Plunging temperatures and gusty winds made their way Thursday into the Northeastern U.S., the next victim in the path of dangerously cold temperatures to hit the country....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Weeping, hobbling on crutches or dragging suitcases, hundreds of survivors of a devastating government bombardment and siege left the last sliver of opposition-held Aleppo on Thursday, an evacuation that sealed the end of the rebellion's most important stronghold and was a watershed moment in Syria's 5-year-old civil war....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Dylann Roof was convicted Thursday in the chilling slaughter of nine black church members who had welcomed him to their Bible study, a devastating crime in a country that was already deeply embroiled in racial tension....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet, it's looking less like America's population and more like the world Trump has always orbited: wealthy, white, male-dominated and business-minded....
