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I was in the audience when VP Pence said the defence of persecuted Christians would be a “foreign policy priority” for the administration. Grant Asia Bibi and her family US citizenship and get a plane there tomorrow!
— Benedict Kiely (@benedict_kiely) November 3, 2018
2. Funerals for Coptic Christian victims killed in bus ambush in Minya, Egypt. May they rest in peace and rise in glory.
3. Every First Saturday, New Yorkers gather to pray by Planned Parenthood in SoHo. They are protested monthly. I wrote about last month’s confrontation here. Here are photos of this month’s prayer.
4. ‘Liberals, get a grip. Democrats who oppose abortion are still Democrats.’ By Peter Steinfels
5. BBC: Adoptions fall by 62 percent as IVF success rises
6. Why adoption isn’t Plan A or B
7. Dashawn is ready for a family to call his own
8. Foster child who received liver transplant adopted with siblings
9. Charlotte Allen: The Point of Gosnell
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Dear Mrs. Taylor,
Maj Taylor was my friend. I wrote this letter for his family.
I hope this little contribution eases your pain.Note: this letter was sent to his physical add by one my American mentors. I tried to email too but I failed to find her email. pic.twitter.com/28nH7o4W6D
— Col Rahman Rahmani (@rahmanrahmanee) November 5, 2018
11. ‘We knew we were inmates but he made us feel human again.’
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Customers Buy Out Doughnut Shop Early Every Day So Owner Can Be With Sick Wife https://t.co/nqSEYROzd5
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 4, 2018
13. Terry Teachout:
“I hope that Art Carney wasn’t haunted in old age by the road he didn’t take—but I’d be surprised if it didn’t come to his mind on occasion. Few things sting more fiercely than the unbidden memory of wasted time.”
14. A couple is inseparable, even in death
15. Priceless trove of poems by English writer Gerard Manley Hopkins is discovered
Plus: My syndicated column on the life of Cecilia Paul, foster and adoptive mother extraordinaire.