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A pro-life doctor’s realization has led to hundreds of lives saved. 

More than 200 guests, including several young adults, attended the Peace and Justice Conference at Church of the Nativity in Burke March 23. George Mason University law professor Helen Alvaré gave the keynote address.  

As an immediate sign of his concern and an encouragement to other donors, Pope Francis has sent $50,000 each to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to assist with initial emergency relief efforts after a cyclone hit the region and caused massive flooding. 

When her mother (voice of Jennifer Garner) becomes seriously ill and must go away for medical treatment, a young girl (voice of Brianna Denski) lashes out by turning her back on the imaginary amusement park they had created together with the help of an ensemble of stuffed animals (the most prominent voiced by Norbert Leo Butz, Ken Hudson Campbell and Mila Kunis). But on a journey through the woods near her home she stumbles on a real-life version of the venue and finds that it's in crisis because of her anger and neglect.

This generally engaging young-adult romantic drama about the redeeming power of sacrificial love is aimed, with the precision of a heat-seeking missile, at 17-year-old girls. But mature themes, including sexuality, preclude endorsement for most adolescents. Director Justin Baldoni and screenwriters Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis take on mortality from cystic fibrosis, a subject that could easily have led them into tasteless mawkishness. Instead, they've treated their material in a way that's compassionate, medically correct and, for the most part, morally sound. br />

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