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Local devotees of Fr. Bill Atkinson rally support for bronze memorial sculptures

Hydrogen production facilities in Vietnam are attracting interest in accelerating the transition to clean and renewable energy, but the lack of a price mechanism and high costs of infrastructure and operations are key bottlenecks in procurement.

Beer lovers, here’s your chance to give back by drinking your favorite local brews: More than 20 Long Island breweries are partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Long Island’s “The House Beer Built” fundraising campaign.

Archbishop Nelson Perez and officials working on the cause for sainthood of Father Bill Atkinson affixed signatures and seals for more than 3,000 pages of documentation on the late priest to the Vatican for further review.

At an Oct. 19 ceremony, the Philadelphia Archdiocese announced it will send the canonization cause of Augustinian Father Bill Atkinson -- the Catholic Churchs first quadriplegic priest -- to the Vatican.

Fire hazard stalks Vietnam’s tube houses By Long Nguyen  &nbspApril 9, 2021 | 08:23 pm GMT+7 With only one exit and inadequate safety standards, Vietnam’s so-called ‘tube houses’ pose a severe fire risk to their occupants. In just one week recently, there was a fire each in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh which claimed 10 lives. The one in Saigon’s Thu Duc City on March 30 killed six members of a family after completely engulfing their house. It is not known yet if they were burned to death o...