For centuries, pilgrims have journeyed to the shrine of St. James in Spain’s Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
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Modern pilgrims follow ancient path
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Modern pilgrims follow ancient path
June 28th, 2010UC Irvine’s Francisco Ayala wins Templeton Prize (Los Angeles Times)
March 25th, 2010The scientist and ordained priest espouses the idea that the theory of evolution is consistent with Christianity. He plans to donate the $1.6-million prize to charity. As a young doctoral student in the 1960s, Francisco Ayala was surprised to learn that Darwin’s theory of evolution appeared to be less widely accepted in the United States than in his native Spain, then a profoundly conservative …
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UC Irvine’s Francisco Ayala wins Templeton Prize (Los Angeles Times)
Kiwi family stunned about expulsion (The New Zealand Herald)
March 9th, 2010A New Zealand family kicked out of Morocco for teaching Christianity to Muslim orphans are safe on their way to Spain, their family says.
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Kiwi family stunned about expulsion (The New Zealand Herald)
Los Sefarditas: The Spanish-Jewish Heritage of South Texas (The Brownsville Herald)
December 6th, 2009In 1492, Spain expelled from the country its most valuable citizens, the ” sefarditas ,” (Spanish Jews). Many of them moved to other parts of Europe, or came to the New World as ” conversos ” to Christianity.
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Los Sefarditas: The Spanish-Jewish Heritage of South Texas (The Brownsville Herald)
3 Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania (AP via Yahoo! News)
November 30th, 2009Army teams and planes searched the desert nation Monday for three Spanish volunteers kidnapped by gunmen, and Spain’s interior minister said he suspected al-Qaida-linked Islamists were behind the attack.
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3 Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania (AP via Yahoo! News)
