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[ In Schools ]
Pinecrest Academy Students Choose Mission Work for Senior Trip
Twenty-one boys, including four former Pinecrest graduates, and twenty girls, along with parents, a priest, and consecrated women, traveled to Nicaragua, setting out to transform society with the words of Mother Teresa, “We can do no great things, only small things with great love”... 
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[ In Announcements ]
Black and Unwanted: New Billboard Campaign Launches this Week
Ryan Bomberger, creator of the billboards and co-founder of the Radiance Foundation, says, “Abortion is being used as birth control and increasingly encouraged by groups like Planned Parenthood who, in 2008, aborted 65 children for every one client they referred for adoption; that’s 305,310 abortions to 4,912 adoption referrals"...
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[ In Government & Politics ]
Survey Shows Parents Want Less Sex, Drugs on TV
According to a recent national survey, parents are calling on the media industry to help protect children, with three-fourths saying the industry should do more, and 58% saying government should too...
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[ In People & Places ]
Founder of Dawsonville Humanitarian Organization Heads to Iraq
Dr. Ben Mathes, founder of Rivers of the World, a humanitarian organization based in Dawsonville, will be leaving for Iraq on April 19, serving as a journalist.  The Dawson County resident is also a motivational speaker and has received numerous awards for his humanitarian work around the world...
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[ In Local TV ]
EWTN Airs Divine Mercy Mass Live on Sunday
As Our Lord told St. Faustina, the apostle who gave mankind the Divine Mercy devotion: “The Feast of Mercy emerged from My very depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My mercy” (Diary 699)...
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[ In Church/Civic ]
First Baptist Church of Dawsonville Performs Park Spring Cleaning
Volunteers from First Baptist Church of Dawsonville spent March 20 participating in community service projects.  As a result of their efforts, Veterans Memorial Park and War Hill Park each boast new landscaping around recently completed additions to the parks and Rock Creek Park received help with an Opening Day cleanup...
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[ In Breaking News ]
New York Times Tries to Keep Flame Alive
"Pope Was Told Pedophile Priest Would Get Transfer." That's the headline in today's New York Times piece on the pope. Yet the Times offers absolutely no evidence to support this charge...
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[ In Breaking News ]
Girl Scouts Distribute Planned Parenthood Sex Guide at UN Meeting
A controversial brochure entitled “Healthy, Happy and Hot” is aimed at young people living with HIV, and contains explicit and graphic details on sex, as well as the promotion of casual sex in many forms...
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[ In Faith & Values ]
Religious Sisters Teach Oprah the Rosary
In their ongoing series for EWTN, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, teach Oprah how to say the rosary and what it means to be "a bride of Christ"...
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[ In Local TV ]
EWTN to Cover March for Life in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson will share a personal testimony this weekend on EWTN Radio. Her story, “A Change of Heart,” can be heard at 9 a.m. , Sat., Jan. 23, or 5 p.m., Sun., Jan. 24...
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[ In Church/Civic ]
Southern Catholic Students to Travel to Washington for March for Life
While a small group of students at the local college will head to Washington, D.C. this week, the majority of the student body will stay closer to home and participate in the March for Life and Mass for the Unborn in downtown Atlanta...
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[ In Faith & Values ]
EWTN To Air 2010 March for Life/Walk for Life
With Congress now meeting to resolve differences between the Senate and House versions of the health care bill -- which includes the Senate version’s massive funding of abortion -- the 2010 March for Life has become one of the most important in history...
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[ In Church/Civic ]
'Catholics Returning Home' Offered at St. Brigid in January
Whether you have been away from the Church for a short while, a few years, or even decades, Saint Brigid's is here to help you take another look at the Catholic Church...
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[ In Schools ]
'K4J' Instills Virtuous Lifestyles in Local Students
Kids 4 Jesus, or K4J, involves students, teachers and parents in fun and interactive virtue formation.  The program has been utilized at Forsyth County's Pinecrest Academy as part of the school's curriculum for more than eight years...
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[ In Announcements ]
Father Shawn Aaron, L.C. Installed as President of Southern Catholic College
Father Aaron joined the Legion in 1991, and was ordained to the priesthood in Rome in 2002.  He has degrees in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome.  He has served on the boards of several Legion-affiliated schools, worked as a retreat director and leader of national evangelization efforts and played a major role in development efforts for the Legion in North America...
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