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Need to know: Thursday, October 6, 2016
United Methodist association forms to push for tough line on gays
The denomination is hoping to prevent a schism in the wake of the election of Bishop Karen Oliveto, who is openly gay and married, to lead the UMC’s Western Jurisdiction.
With Kaine and Pence, religion finally takes center stage in Election 2016
The major party’s two presidential aspirants have kept faith at a distance. That was not the case during the first and only vice presidential debate.
Theologian Miroslav Volf makes a surprising case for one candidate
A prominent theologian at Yale Divinity School thinks one candidate is more Christian than the other.
Pope, Anglican leader vow joint action on poverty and environment
The pledge at a vespers prayer service in Rome came despite challenges to greater unity posed by differences over women priests and gay marriage.
Who is the archbishop Pope Francis sends into the streets to help Rome’s migrants?
He is Konrad Krajewski, or “Don Corrado,” as he is known on the streets, and he is nothing like a typical Vatican official. But there’s only so much even he, and the pontiff, can to do help these refugees.
Kelly Ayotte, free condoms — and a budding Catholic question?
The Republican senator from New Hampshire is locked in a tough re-election battle. Could her campaign gimmick to distribute free condoms to college students prompt any Catholic backlash?
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Pence maintains Trump would defend religious objections
Many conservative Christians are still upset that in 2015 the Indiana governor backtracked after signing a Religious Freedom Restoration Act in his state.
South African Anglicans regroup after defeat of same-sex blessing measure
(RNS) The rejection was a blow to LGBT activists and their supporters who held some hope for full inclusion in the church now that South Africa allows same-sex marriage.
Pope Francis: Keep sports honest
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The challenge, the pope said, was to protect sports from 'manipulations and commercial abuse.'
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Kaine testifies to a religious struggle, Pence declines to
(RNS) If only Pence had opened up about Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Franklin Graham sets us straight
(RNS) Nobody gives a rip about Donald J. Trump's taxes, he assures us. And how does he know that?
Father Michael Pfleger: ‘Just a parish priest’
The people at St. Sabina, against all odds, hope for justice, compassion, care of the weak and needy, and then use that vision to help change the scene around them.
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Bonus tracks
- Worldwide, only 25 percent of young single Mormons are active in the LDS Church
- Polygamist leader: Communal living key part of religion
- Will young Jews stand up for Judaism?
- Prince Charles makes secret visit to grandmother’s grave in East Jerusalem
- Science and the Bible can help ease racial tensions
- The ‘lived religion’ of street basketball
