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Need to know: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Trump revives ban on foreign aid to groups that give abortion counseling
U.S. law already prohibits the use of American taxpayer dollars for abortion services anywhere, but Trump’s order takes the prohibition further.
After papal blessing, Duterte challenges abusive priests to ‘showdown’
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte rebuked priests and bishops critical of his drugs war, accusing them of homosexuality, corruption and abusing children.
Ohio mosque is first to join sanctuary movement
It took us no time to decide that this was the ethical and moral thing to do,” said Imam Ismaeel Chartier of the Clifton Mosque near Cincinnati.
Despite country club members’ rift, Obama gets an invitation
Considering him too tough on Israel, a vocal minority at a mostly Jewish golf club didn’t want the former president as a member. They did not prevail.
‘The Last Jedi?’ In real life, ‘Jedi’ can be a religion
The religion exploded into the mainstream in 2001, when fans in several countries — some quite seriously — listed Jediism as a religion on their local census.
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At the women’s march, the religious left resists Trump
Many at the march wanted it to be known: Americans of faith are not just conservative Christians.
With Trump at prayer service, clergy speak of compassion, diversity
WASHINGTON (RNS) The president, a Presbyterian, folded his arms at times and sat silently for the most part during the 70-minute service.
Prosperity, heresy and Trump: Inauguration pastor Paula White answers her critics
It’s not the personal attacks that bother her, she told RNS. The accusations of heresy, though, are a different story: “That’s my Lord, and that’s my Savior, and that is 32 years of my life.”
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Why even the worst cancer news won’t push me to try every treatment
(RNS) Not all potential life is equally valuable to me.
I was Maimonides’ ghostwriter (and other alternative facts)
We are now living in the kingdom of lies.
Peaceful transfer of power can make things worse, says pope
Sometimes it leads to some very bad results.
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