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Archive for November 8th, 2008

Serial cohabiters less likely to marry

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Those who have cohabited with more than one partner are less likely to marry than are those who have cohabited with only one partner.  Moreover, if serial cohabiters do marry, their marriages are more than twice as likely to end in divorce.
Daniel T. Lichter of Cornell University and Zhenchao of Ohio State University used data [...]

International Day of Prayer, 2008

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Tomorrow, 9 November, is International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. IDOP is observed each year on the second Sunday of November to remember and lift up in prayer the hundreds of millions of Christians around the world who suffer because of their faith in Jesus Christ.
IDOP Canada has chosen as this year’s [...]

Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Seventy years ago tomorrow, the worst pogrom of the Third Reich took place. Alleged at the time to be a “spontaneous” demonstration against the assassination of a Paris embassy official by a teenage Jewish refugee, Kristallnacht was in fact orchestrated by the Nazi govenment.
Jewish homes, shops, and synagogues across German territory—and particularly in Vienna—were [...]