Monroe Features
- April 23, 2012
- Brighton parish has sent more than $600,000 to Tanzania
- By Amy Kotlarz/Catholic Courier
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- April 16, 2012
- Students learn about life issues
IRONDEQUOIT -- She was a college student with the drive to become a professional musician. So when Jennifer Burch became pregnant at 19, she didn’t spend much time considering the possible downsides of the abortion she was to undergo.
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- April 16, 2012
- Program provides structure, activities
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ROCHESTER -- Every day is a new adventure for the staff at the Project HOPE youth drop-in center, which is located in the hall at St. Michael Church.
Read More- By Annette Jiménez/Catholic Courier
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- April 4, 2012
- Penfield parish mobilizes to help Tanzania
Jack Skvorak accompanied his wife, Mary, on a business trip to Tanzania in Africa in early 2010 for Mary’s work at Nazareth College in Pittsford. Mary was vetting locations abroad where Nazareth education students were planning to teach as part of their training.
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- March 26, 2012
- Spirit House expands its healing
IRONDEQUOIT -- Sister Ann recalled her superior handing her a description of Spirit House, the Irondequoit ministry for women religious that offers residential care to women
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- March 9, 2012
- Learners aim for American dream
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HENRIETTA – Islam Aliyev recently handed a letter from Monroe Community College, where he studies English as a second language, to his friend and former tutor Ron Anderson.
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- February 13, 2012
- Agency helps women makeover their lives
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The bevy of volunteers with the local nonprofit Angels of Mercy have dressed more than 20,000 girls around the world in simple handmade dresses.
And since June they also have been focusing attention on women in need in the Rochester area.
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- February 3, 2012
- School opens doors to international students
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BRIGHTON -- Written in Mandarin Chinese characters, the poster hanging over the hallway at the main entrance to Our Lady of Mercy High School reads, "Welcome."
It's one indication of how the school has extended a welcome during the 2011-12 school year to more than two dozen international students, including many from China
Read More- By Amy Kotlarz/Catholic Courier
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- February 3, 2012
- Fatima message to be shared
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Anne Reyner of Parma said she has been touched by the message of Our Lady of Fatima, and it's a message she wants to share with others.
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- January 5, 2012
- Film documents lives of female farmworkers
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PITTSFORD -- In 2000, filmmaker Nancy Ghertner realized that although she'd lived in Sodus for 30 years, there was an entire segment of her town's population that she knew almost nothing about.
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