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Mudslide ministers: Washington disaster attracts faith-based groups for basic needs – and listening, loving

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By Amy Martinez SEATTLE — Enio Aguero had never been to Oso, Wash., before late last month. But he recognized the faces. “Faces of hopelessness, trying to find out why or how this could happen,” said the 53-year-old chaplain from Northern Virginia, a veteran of disaster relief in Moore, Okla., where a tornado last May…

Is religious affiliation the driving factor in charitable giving?

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By Matthew Brown For decades the philanthropic world was divided into two communities: the religious and the secular. The religious consisted exclusively of congregations that dealt with spiritual development of their followers, while the secular took in everything else, from disaster relief and health care to environmental causes. “But everyone knew the (secular) group was…

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