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• Controversial. Chaotic. But not a do-nothing Congress
• No room at the inn: Mexican Posada tradition inspires US migrants
• For Mideast Christians, US refugee policy puts a damper on Christmas
• Are Greek and EU officials illegally deporting migrants to Turkey?

Controversial. Chaotic. But not a do-nothing Congress Posted: 21 Dec 2018 02:27 PM PST The 115th Congress is going out with a bang – but not the celebratory kind. Instead it is a deafening noise of shutdown drama and alarm bells over national security that is drowning out the accomplishments of the last two years. Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell describes this Congress as the most successful – from a "right-of-center" perspective – in decades.

No room at the inn: Mexican Posada tradition inspires US migrants Posted: 21 Dec 2018 02:17 PM PST La Posada, a rich Mexican and Latin American Catholic tradition, took place after dusk in the humblest of settings on a recent evening here – a bright half-moon illuminated a plastic tent festooned with lights in a weatherworn mobile-home park. Warmed by cinnamon-heavy Oaxacan coffee cooked on an open fire, the participants gathered for this much-anticipated nine-day Christmastime ritual were Triquis, an indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico, many of them fluent only in their native pre-Columbian language.

For Mideast Christians, US refugee policy puts a damper on Christmas Posted: 21 Dec 2018 01:26 PM PST Laith Yakona wants only one thing for Christmas, the same thing he has prayed for the last four Christmases: to spend the holidays with his family. War, bombings, kidnappings, death threats, and death squads failed to break up the Yakona family in their hometown of Baghdad before leaving for Jordan.

Are Greek and EU officials illegally deporting migrants to Turkey? Posted: 21 Dec 2018 12:15 PM PST Fadi Jassem is a skinny Syrian man with sorrow etched on his face. The 11-year-old boy had just been ferried across the choppy waters of the Evros River in the middle of winter when he disappeared. "He got lost in the border area so I went to search for him there," Jassem told The Christian Science Monitor in October.

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