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Black clergy debate Obama's stand on gay marriage

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 5:43pm

CHICAGO -- The leader of President Barack Obama's former church in Chicago has come out against statements by other African-American clergy who condemned the president's endorsement last week of same-sex marriage.

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National attention not always easy for LDS Church

Manya A. Brachear Chicago Tribune

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 9:29pm

As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney continues his drive to win his party's nomination, Mormons worry they could face a barrage of negative scrutiny, much like that which engulfed President Barack Obama's former church on Chicago's South Side four years ago.

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Hospital offers to help women halt abortions

Chicago Tribune, Manya A. Brachear

Last updated Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 4:33pm

CHICAGO -- A Chicago medical center has become one of the nation's first Roman Catholic hospitals to adopt a practice of halting second-trimester abortions for women who change their minds after the multi-day medical procedure has begun.

Working with two anti-abortion groups, Resurrection Medical Center, the largest hospital of one of Chicago's largest Catholic health care systems, has put in place a practice that when a woman arrives in the emergency room with an activist seeking to stop a second-trimester abortion, she should be treated immediately. Since October, four women have arrived at the hospital seeking to halt their abortions, and three of them had their abortions stopped.

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Three synagogues in one

Chicago Tribune, Manya A. Brachear

Last updated Friday, September 24, 2010 - 5:15pm

CHICAGO -- When Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, drew to a close last Saturday night, blasts of sound from a succession of three shofars echoed throughout Temple Menorah in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood.

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