Politics
Both sides brace for Supreme Court battle on gay marriage
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court's long-awaited decisions to hear challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage move the issue to the top of the national agenda following a year in which advocates scored major legal and political victories. By Richard Wolf / USA Today.
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ANALYSIS: Does religious freedom report need more ‘teeth’?
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Obama administration isn’t afraid to call out Republicans for playing politics on Capitol Hill, or Wall Street for runaway profits or insurance companies for health care woes.
But why, when it comes to protecting religious freedom abroad, is the State Depa...
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N.J. priest faces judge for violating ban on access to children
HACKENSACK, N.J. (RNS) Wearing a bright orange prison jumpsuit, the priest at the center of the furor in the Archdiocese in Newark made his first court appearance on Tuesday (May 21) on charges he violated a court-sanctioned lifetime ban on working with children.
The Rev. Mich...
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COMMENTARY: A hunger strike to close Guantanamo
CLAREMONT, Calif. (RNS) Last Sunday (May 12), Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. As one of our Ph.D. students and an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ),...
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Troubled Missouri diocese to pay $600,000 abuse settlement
(RNS) The Catholic diocese in Missouri led by Bishop Robert Finn, who was convicted last year of failing to report a priest who was taking pornographic pictures of children, will pay a $600,000 settlement to the family of one of the priest's victims.
The family filed the civil...
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Franklin Graham calls IRS probe of ministry finances ‘un-American’
(RNS) Evangelist Franklin Graham blasted the Internal Revenue Service probe of conservative nonprofit groups as "un-American," saying both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the relief group Samaritan's Purse were audited by the IRS.
In a Tuesday (May 14) letter to P...
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German home-schooling family loses U.S. asylum bid
(RNS) A German family seeking asylum in the U.S. so they can home-school their children lost their appeal in federal court on Tuesday (May 14), but their lawyers say they're prepared to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.
The German government persecuted the Romei...
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ANALYSIS: Will the Kermit Gosnell verdict change the abortion debate?
(RNS) Even before rogue abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted in Philadelphia on Monday (May 13) of delivering and then killing late-term infants, abortion opponents were convinced they had a case that could reshape an abortion debate that has remained static over the years.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s burial angers Va. Muslims
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(RNS) Officials and local residents of a rural Virginia county say they're surprised and angered that the body of Boston Marathon bombing sus...
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev buried in undisclosed location
(RNS) An undisclosed community on Wednesday (May 8) accepted the body of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, which is now "entombed," according to police in Worcester, Mass.
Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, found a funeral home in Worcester to handle the body, but had str...
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US anti-abortion leaders join Rome’s March for Life
VATICAN CITY (RNS) American anti-abortion leaders will be in Rome on Sunday (May 12) to participate in Italy's third March for Life and lend their expertise to the nation's small anti-abortion movement as it tries to learn from its American counterpart.
Jeanne Monahan, presiden...
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