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“Nine-in-ten U.S. Muslims proud to be American” Graphic courtesy of Pew Research Center
Need to know: Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Muslim Americans worry about discrimination but profess faith in the American dream
Muslims have a growing sense of American support, though they reported increasing instances of religious discrimination in the past year, a new survey finds.
Clergy march in a ‘funeral procession’ to protest health care repeal
They carried a cardboard coffin and poster-sized death certificates to the Capitol to represent the people who would lose health insurance in an Obamacare repeal.
Vatican Cardinal Pell faces Australian court on sex charges
Cardinal George Pell, Australia's highest-ranking Catholic and Pope Francis' top financial adviser, is the most senior Vatican official ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis.
Religious leaders protest L.A. pastor’s detention during routine ICE appointment
Pentecostal preacher Noe Carias allegedly violated a deportation order in 1995. “He’s never done anything wrong,” his wife said. “The only thing he did was come here illegally.”
Sermon called anti-Semitic; imam says, taken out of context
Imam Ammar Shahin of the Davis Islamic Center in California was citing an apocalyptic text when he called for the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to be liberated “from the filth of the Jews.” (Subscription may be required)
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Evangelical leaders rally around Kushner amid Russia probe
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Pope prays for ill baby Charlie Gard and parents
LONDON (AP) — The Vatican also said in a statement Monday evening that Francis 'feels especially close to them at this time of immense suffering.'
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Is the Catholic Church a capsizing ship?
(RNS) — Every modern institution faces crises. What differentiates great organizations is whether and how they react.
The Christian example of the Temple Mount conflict
(RNS) — At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, no representative of one of the six controlling religious groups can move, rearrange or alter any piece of property without the consent of the other five.
When we agree on principles but still disagree
Agreement on a principle is just the beginning of a moral conversation.
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