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The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening.

The event, which drew about 75 people, was organized by two community groups: Muslims for Community Action Support (MCAS), and Bridges Not Walls - a new Catholic organization aimed at fighting Islamophobia.

On Saturday, Ven. Thubten Chodron and Ven. Thubten Chonyi of Sravasti Abbey will speak at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture about Buddhism and about their abbey, located in Newport.

“Silence can often seem like an absence of things; silence sometimes feels empty and heavy,” she said, “but I want people to be able to find silence and find the lightness and the freedom in silence.”

The numbers are staggering. Nearly 11,000 children in the state of Washington are in the foster care system, and some 3,000 children are listed as homeless in Spokane County. In 2007, after watching a story about a store in Ft. Lauderdale that gave new and gently used clothing to foster …

"...I noticed that there’s this huge lack of Native American students who are really into their culture.”