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  • Border Patrol Finds 37 Illegal Immigrants in House Featuring Shrine to ‘Goddess of Death’

    05/12/2016 3:09:41 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 23 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | May 12, 2016 | 9:58 AM EDT
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection said yesterday that Border Patrol agents on Monday found “37 illegal immigrants” in a house in southern Texas that featured a shrine to “La Santa Muerte” or the “goddess of death.” “Border Patrol agents along with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers conducted a traffic stop on a known smuggler which led to the discovery of the stash house,” CBP said in a release published on Wednesday. “After obtaining consent to search the residence, agents found 37 individuals inside. Among them were three juveniles from Mexico and Honduras.” …
  • Hispanics increasing Catholic numbers in US, but assimilation has downside

    03/17/2010 9:36:00 AM PDT · by NYer · 16 replies · 546+ views
    cna ^ | March 17, 2010
    Hartford, Conn., Mar 17, 2010 / 06:23 am (CNA).- A new study of Hispanics shows they comprise an increasingly large percentage of the Catholic Church in the United States. While immigrant influx has helped keep the American Catholic population stable, the more immigrants assimilate into American society the less likely they are to identify as Catholic.Hispanics also mirror a larger national trend towards non-identification with religion.The results come from the American Religious Identification Survey 2008 (ARIS) and were reported in a recent press release from Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. The report was titled “U.S. Latino Religious Identification 1990-2008:...