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What does it mean to be an organ donor?
The decisionIn addition to the stresses involved in getting or renewing a driver’s license, many Americans find themselves ambushed by an existential question under the harsh fluorescent lighting of their local DMV: Would you like to donate…
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Justin Trudeau accuses India of “credible” link to activist’s assassination in…
Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat Monday as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations that India's government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist. Trudeau said in…
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Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze baptizes students at worship event
More than 200 students at an Alabama college were baptized in one night this week after a campus worship program that was reportedly attended by hundreds.
The baptisms took place Tuesday night in a lake at Auburn’s Red…
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How 9/11 helped open the door to NYC’s churches
A small church in New York, Bronx Household of Faith, decided in 2001 to have me refile its lawsuit challenging the city policy prohibiting worship services in vacant public schools.
New York generally permitted…
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Faith in US institutions and each other takes dangerous drop
Congress, the presidency, the FBI, the judiciary, the media, colleges and universities, big business, churches, scientists, technology companies, labor unions, public health leaders. What do all these institutions…
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Amish romance novel with no sex is too hot for church elders
A new Amish romance novel is flying off the shelves — but its content is buggy-ing out the traditional conservative church community.
Lifelong community member Linda Byler, 65, penned “Tapestry of Love”…
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We should be protecting the right to religious freedom
In a now-familiar script, activists engage in well-publicized controversial expression critiquing or disparaging a religion, meeting with global condemnation and outrage, perhaps violence or threats.
Then,…
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Pope Francis blasts “backwards” U.S. conservatives, “reactionary attitude”…
Pope Francis has blasted the "backwardness" of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.Francis' comments…
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France banning Islamic abaya robes in schools, calling them an attempt to convert others to Islam
France is to ban Islamic garments known as abayas in schools from September, the government announced Sunday, with a top official calling them a "political attack" and an attempt to convert people to Islam.In an interview on French TV…
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