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Kansas City rabbi grows a congregation of Latin American Jews

By Janet Tappin Coelho — January 14, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO (RNS) Brazilian-born Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn is catering to a growing number of Latinos who are choosing to convert to Judaism as they abandon the region’s dominant Roman Catholicism.

Breakaway bishop who denounced gay bishop found murdered in Brazil

By Tiffany McCallen — February 28, 2012

(RNS) A conservative Brazilian bishop who broke away from his church over the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire was found murdered with his wife in the northeastern town of Olinda, according to the diocese.

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