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[Chaplin Christian Von Wernich] is one of the spokesmen from the Church that participated in the tortures and 'comforted' disappeared detainees," said Christina Valdez, whose husband was kidnapped and later disappeared in the provincial capital of La Plata. Witnesses have testified that Von Wernich carried out a special role inside a network of clandestine detention centers known as the "Camps Circuit" in the Buenos Aires suburbs. He is most notorious for his title as "spiritual aid" inside the Puesto Vasco concentration camp, one of the 375 used to disappear, torture, and murder 30,000 people. On just the third day of the trial, a number of witnesses gave remarkable testimonies of Von Wernich's crimes in several clandestine detention centers. Torture survivor Hector Mariano Ballent te...
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NEWFANE -- To get inspiration for his band, clergyman Mike Foster turned to the Bible's song-writing superstar -- David. Thus, the genesis of the band's name: Boy Named David.
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By Dave Forster The Virginian-Pilot
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PARAMUS -- A clergyman's six-month effort to bring awareness to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur culminated Sunday with the collection and display of 15,000 pairs of shoes at Westfield Garden State Plaza. While visiting Washington this spring, the Rev. Ken Vander Wall of North Haledon was inspired by a display along the reflecting pool near the Capitol: 30,000 pairs of shoes, collected by Briar Woods High School in Ashburn, Va., representing 300,000 deaths the Darfur region in Sudan has seen since the start of a war in 2003.
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Nothing energized Lester Kim more than people - especially if they disagreed with him or were different, said his wife, Pearl Kim. He would want to know why they were different if they didn't see eye to eye," she said.
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In, spite of the ordeals that the African American woman has had to face, she has always endured and emerged as a stable force in the family and in society with an extraordinary vision to see what she wanted to accomplish by having exceptional strength and fortitude to turn a vision into reality. The boycott at that time raised an unknown clergyman named Martin Luther King, Jr., to national prominence and resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on city buses.
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Though there were many applicants for chaplain positions at the World Cup, Dubuque native B.J. (William) Weber, an ordained clergyman in Manhattan, wasn't among them. Weber, 64, was recently selected to be a chaplain for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. The games began Sept. 9 and will end Oct. 23.
