by Bruce Nolan and The Times-Picayune | Jan 5, 2011 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The last time Matt Sloan saw Sylvia Blanchard’s house after he and Episcopal volunteer crews reclaimed it from Hurricane Katrina, the Blanchards were back in and it was neat, clean and smelling new. But it was raw, too, in the way of new...
by Jonathan Tilove and Bruce Nolan and The Times-Picayune | Dec 6, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama and some 500 notables celebrated the second of the Hanukkah’s eight nights on Thursday (Dec. 2) by lighting a menorah fished from the muck of a synagogue flooded by Hurricane Katrina. Describing the Hanukkah candles as tiny reminders...
by Bill Barrow and The Times-Picayune | Nov 22, 2010 | News
(RNS) The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled regulations on Wednesday (Nov. 17) that will require hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid financing to drop any visitation policies that discriminate against gays, lesbians and transsexuals. The new...
by Bruce Nolan and The Times-Picayune | Nov 10, 2010 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told thousands of American Jewish leaders that Israel will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, and stands ready to negotiate a meaningful peace with Palestinians, but only if they guarantee Israeli...
by Bruce Nolan and The Times-Picayune | Oct 28, 2010 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Some families may be debating whether to send kids out to trick-or-treat on Sunday night, but there’s no debate in Louisiana’s Livingston Parish, where local laws forbid the observance of Halloween on a Sunday. This year, for the first time, in...
