Cross News

It always seemed a funny old day, Good Friday. Why, we kids wanted to know, was it thought so “good” when it marked such a horrible death?

Pittsburgh - A 12-year-old boy from Pittsburgh, Penn., sustained severe second-degree burns on his back after participating in a dangerous teen fad called "salt and ice challenge," making the rounds on YouTube and social networking sites.

Junior Garcia, a 19-year-old college student from Texas, is walking from his home state to Washington D.C., bearing a cross on his shoulders all the way.

Forest Hills - A man from Queens New York that failed two prior attempts to row across the Atlantic Ocean failed in a third attempt. He was forced to be rescued from a life raft when his rowboat began to take on water.

Kentville - The first of two brothers convicted of inciting racial hatred and criminal harassment, after burning a cross on the lawn of an interracial couple in N.S., will spend two more months in custody.

Warsaw - A new war is quickly looming large in Poland. It is a religious war. Unlike other religious and bloody wars in the past, this time it doesn’t seem to be a bloody one.

Port-au-prince - Angelina Jolie returned to Haiti over the weekend to assess the progress of the work that has been accomplished since the earthquake hit this island country. Jolie has recently dispelled rumors that Jolie-Pitt have an adoption in progress in Haiti.

Washington - Driven only by bigotry and hate, the defendant threatened members of his own family with violence because they associated with persons of another race, He erected a cross on their lawn and set it on fire in protest of interracial relationships.

Christians across the world will have been eating hot cross buns this Easter season, but few will be aware of the historic link between the pastry and Good Friday.

The Air Force Academy recently opened the doors to an outdoor Wiccan Centre. That move was meant to show a new tolerance for religion. Two weeks ago a cross was planted in the middle of the Centre.