American Christian kids as young as four are being challenged to do extra chores and other fundraising activities to raise money to buy Bibles for U.S. troops.

Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse Jr. magazine, whose readers are aged 4 to 8 years old, has teamed up with the American Bible Society to encourage its 88,000 readers to raise funds by washing cars, selling lemonade, and doing household chores.

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The cause of an American army chaplain who died in a North Korean prison camp in 1951, has come a step closer as the Vatican has begun to investigate a number of possible miracles.

Fr Emil Kapaun, a priest from Wichita, Kansas, was born in 1916.  His family was of Bohemian extraction. He volunteered for Army chaplain duty in the Korean War.

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As an Army chaplain who participated in the D-Day invasion during World War II, Rev. George W. Knapp wrote hundreds of letters in the weeks that followed to families of fallen soldiers with whom he had served on the battlefield.

He knew he was doing his duty by helping families understand the circumstances of their loved ones’ deaths. But he wasn’t prepared for the emotional toll that came with the letters he received back from those grieving.

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