Rene Rivera says strong family ties and a shared Catholic faith helped people deal with the hard life in their community.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in South Bend,Indiana, has ties to the Palliative Care Association of Uganda in Kampala.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Ted Nash wanted his composition about Chagall to express his ties to family and Eastern European culture.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

But closer ties were not welcomed between the government and a religious group known as the Mormons.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Her visit was another sign of growing European unity, and growing ties between France and Germany.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Faulkner ties the three levels of individual psychology, social history and tragedy into a whole.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

A Turkish official said Friday that economic and defense ties with Israel will be reduced.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Calhoun said it was clear now to everyone that the Union was breaking apart, that the ties that had held the North and South together were breaking,one by one.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The United States cut ties with Iran after the 1979 Revolution, but Iran and Britain still have diplomatic relations.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

The Turkish Parliament passed a motion calling for a complete review of all political,economic and military ties with Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

In comments translated by Russia Today television, he said this will strengthen ties between the United States and Russia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Former military official and political analyst Talat Masood says there are signs the often-strained ties between Pakistan and the United States are improving.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Officials say these have grown in "scope and scale" as ties between the two countries have blossomed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Beijing,which has extensive trade and economic ties with Tehran, has been reluctant to press for new sanctions.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The two countries have, until recently, had close political and military ties and Turkey was widely seen as Israel's only friend in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

The tensions have imperiled a strategic alliance forged in 1996 that cemented military and intelligence ties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Many elements are involved. But WHO Health Statistics and Informatics Department Director Ties Boerma says money talks when it comes to providing good health.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Presidents Obama and Medvedev say the United States and Russia will broaden their cooperation on intelligence and counterterrorism, and have improved their economic ties.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Its ties with moderate Arab states Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been strained since the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Angela Laumoli, a high school vice principal, says the 3,000 villagers are drawing on ties of kinship,friendship, and church membership to get through the trauma.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Ties between Washington and New Delhi are at perhaps their warmest since Indian independence.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11