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Woman Donates Engagement Ring to Salvation Army

The Salvation Army receives some strange items in its red kettles during the Christmas season. Lieutenant Michael Harper, commander of the Cambridge Salvation ...


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Millennials Top Social Concern: Inequality

According to a survey highlighted by USA Today, Millennials around the world are most concerned one issue: social and economic equality. More than 1,000 ...


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Cancelled Wedding Inspires Feast For The Needy

An El Dorado Hills, California family overcame their own emotional turmoil to turn a canceled wedding into a special event for approximately 100 less ...


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Floating Pods for Homeless

Instead of complaining about the surge of homeless people in London, an architect has designed something to help. James Furzer is attempting to create ...


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Wrestler's Charitable Meal

While in San Diego, WWE wrestler Titus O'Neil treated a couple to a meal. The reception and service were described as poor by the grappler, a fact ...


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Churches Give Generously to a Hurting World

In 2015 Harvard professor Robert Putnam leveled the following criticism against "organized religion": "The obvious fact is that over the last 30 years, ...


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The Rise of the 74-Year-Old Jewelry Thief

A report in Bloomberg traced the rise of elderly crime in Britain, other European countries, and Asian nations. The police arrested nine suspects in London ...


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Project Hurts Kenyan Farmers

Here's a quick case study for how trying to help can actually hurt poor people. Norway gives more of its government resources, as a percentage, to foreign ...


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Christians Give Up Alcohol Out of Love for Neighbors

In a Christianity Today article, a 30-year-old Christian named D.L. Mayfield describes how her and her husband made a decision to abstain from alcohol: ...


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Statistics on Injustice Against African Americans

Here are a few reasons why race relations in America deserve more attention, not less:

  • The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid.

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